Jürgen Böttcher Trailers

Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel Trailer (2004)

25 October 2004

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Gezeiten Trailer (1970)

22 February 1970

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father and, for the sake of his wife, becomes an innkeeper ashore, but he is still driven by wanderlust.

Necessary Years of Learning Trailer (1960)

01 April 1960

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia.

Gebrochene Glut Trailer (2001)

08 July 2001

Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

Sammelsurium - Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm Trailer (1992)

12 November 1992

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Jürgen Böttcher Trailer (1990)

31 December 1990

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hr

Who Loves the Earth Trailer (1974)

11 January 1974

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

Berlin 1990 Trailer (1990)

08 November 1990

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda Trailer (1977)

31 December 1977

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T.

Postcards I; Potter's Bull Trailer (1981)

07 November 1981

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher).

In Georgia Trailer (1988)

04 March 1988

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar scenes to those found in the work of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanishvili still existed there.

The Wall Trailer (1991)

10 May 1991

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements.

The Secretary Trailer (1967)

01 June 1967

Presentation of a commited State Party secretary at the Chemicals Combine in Buna. A former miner and small farmer rises to a leading political position.

1000 Years Weimar Trailer (1977)

29 September 1977

Documentary on the 1000-year-old town of Weimar. The film presents an example of the victory of humanist traditions over nazi brutality.

Die Mamais Trailer (1974)

29 November 1974

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of becoming the first "socialist brigade" in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to act in accordance with the slogan "Work, learn, and live socialist.

Dialogue with Lenin Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.

Stars Trailer (1963)

23 November 1963

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory.

In the Lohm Valley Trailer (1977)

18 November 1977

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him.

Martha Trailer (1979)

12 January 1979

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades - sorting through rubble.

Grosskochberg - Public Landscape Gardens Trailer (1977)

14 July 1977

Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times.

Zoo Film Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

This black and white documentary film reports from the Berlin Zoo, located in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district, was opened in 1955 and is the largest landscape animal garden in Europe with an area of 160 hectares.

Strawalde - Ein Leben in Bildern Trailer (2021)

04 July 2021

Documentary accompanies the great DEFA film director and painter Jürgen Böttcher, alias Strawalde, detail through his biographical and artistic life: from his childhood as a Nazi boy, his career and his struggles in the GDR under the SED regime, to the opening of the Wall and his international successes.

Postcards III; Woman at the Clavichord Trailer (1981)

07 November 1981

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am Klavichord, the portrait of the artist Kurzer Besuch bei Hermann Glöckner, and also the documentaries Rangierer and Die Küche, noted for their outstanding sound and visuals, Jürgen Böttcher distances himself yet further from the didactic tone and abstract heroic representation of socialist films.

A Representative Trailer (1968)

31 December 1968

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968.

Furnace Builders Trailer (1962)

13 November 1962

At the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost an der Oder, a new blast furnace is being moved to replace a burnt-out one.

Laundresses Trailer (1972)

10 November 1972

In this film about apprentices of the Rewatex laundry, Böttcher once again turns to the focal concern of almost all his films the attempt to report as truthfully and impressibly as possible on the life of workers.

A Brief Visit with Hermann Glöckner Trailer (1985)

19 July 1985

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with undiminished creative energy.

Wir waren in Karl-Marx-Stadt Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Film report about the meeting of the youth organization of the GDR (FDJ = Freie Deutsche Jugend) with guests from 57 countries as well as the 8th Parliament (similar to a party congress) in Karl-Marx-Stadt, today Chemnitz.

La Villette Trailer (1990)

17 July 1990

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, AG Geige, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky—presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris.

In the Pergamom Museum Trailer (1962)

01 January 1962

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of figures.

The Kitchen Trailer (1987)

20 March 1987

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock.

Postcards II; Venus after Giorgione Trailer (1981)

07 November 1981

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher).

"Sweeping Up" - A Demonstration Trailer (1972)

07 September 1972

Documenting a May Day demonstration in West Berlin in 1972

Konzert im Freien Trailer (2001)

20 January 2001

History and art in Berlin's new center. Like a fossil, the Marx-Engels-Forum, a large, ambitious monument project of the GDR, adorns a central historical spot in the middle of Berlin.