Jürgen Böttcher Movies

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

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

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

Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years...

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 -...

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...

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

Documenting a May Day demonstration in West Berlin in 1972

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

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...

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...

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

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

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

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