Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger (born June 6, 1942) is a German filmmaker, documentarian and photographer. She is the daughter of the artist-painter Ulrich Ottinger.

From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter.

From 1962 to 1968, she lived in Paris and was among others in the studio of Johnny Friedlaender. They participated in several exhibitions and in 1966 wrote her first screenplay, entitled "The Mongolian double drawer".

Ottinger returned to West Germany in 1969 and founded in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Konstanz the film club "visual", which she directed until 1972. She also carried a gallery and the associated "galeriepress”, where they edited works by contemporary artists.

During this time she met Tabea Blumenschein and Magdalena Montezuma both of whom have been cast as lead actress in her films since 1972. Ottinger developed her own bizarre surrealist film-style, which among other things, was marked by widespread abandonment of a linear plot and instead linger long in individual scenes, which in turn make überstarke and extravagant costumes of the imagination mostly female cast artfully to own collages were designed.

In addition, she worked at the State theater in Stuttgart 1983, inter alia, staged at Elfriede Jelinek Clara S. and 1986 in Graz Jelinek craving and driving license.

Ottinger’s films, with their preference for the Far Eastern formal language is visible, turned in the following decades, some unconventional documentaries about life in various Asian regions. Ulrike Ottinger, also works as a photographer. She has resided in Berlin since 1973.

Filmography

*2007 - "Prater"
*2004 - "Zwölf Stühle"
*2002 - "Südostpassage"
*1997 - Exil Shanghai (aka Exile Shanghai)
*1992 - "Taiga"
*1990 - "Countdown"
*1989 - "Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia" (Joan of Arc of Mongolia)
*1986 - "Seven Women, Seven Sins" (Sieben Frauen - Sieben Todsünden (West Germany))
*1986 - China. Die Künste - der Alltag. Eine filmische Reisebeschreibung
*1984 - Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (aka The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)
*1981 - "Freak Orlando"
*1979 - "Bildnis einer Trinkerin".
*1978 - "Madame X - Eine absolute Herrscherin" (aka Madame X: An Absolute Ruler)
*1975 - "Betörung der blauen Matrosen", Die
*1975 - "Laokoon & Söhne" (aka Laocoon & Sons)
*1973 - Berlinfieber - Wolf Vostell

External links

*http://www.ulrikeottinger.com/en/index-en.html
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0653200/
*http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm282.shtml