Eckart Lottmann

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Eckart Lottmann (born October 12, 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and filmmaker .

Life

After graduating from high school, he first studied sociology in Hamburg, then moved to Berlin to major in journalism. In 1978 he completed his Magister Artium at the Free University of Berlin . Lottmann was one of the co-founders of "MedienOperative Berlin e. V. ". The "MedienOperative" (MOB for short) was initially an alternative media center, then, especially from the mid-1980s, a production company that increasingly worked for public television. Lottmann's focus was on urban redevelopment and foreign young people and adults. With the help of funding from Senate departments, a number of videos in the youth sector and videos with Turkish adults have been made. The film “It's dark around me” (1989 for the SDR, series “People Among Us”) was the first film for television that Lottmann realized under his sole responsibility. Lottmann left the MedienOperative in 1992 (which had since been expanded to include the company "Lichtblick GbR") and has since worked as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. Around the mid-1990s he became a member of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm” (AG DOK). The focus of his cinematic work can be historical-political documentaries for the SFB and later for the rbb. Eckart Lottmann realized several 45 minute long productions for the SFB / rbb's “Zeitgeschichte”. B. with the history of the professional fire brigade in Berlin, with the history of inland navigation between Hamburg, Berlin and Stettin or with the history of the West Berlin police. In addition, Eckart Lottmann worked temporarily for the Cornelsen school book publisher. Here, in the 1990s, he wrote a few teaching units for the “Politics News Service” and the “History in Film” series, teaching units that were posted on the company's website. For several years Lottmann organized the public relations work of the “AG DOK” association, wrote articles for daily newspapers and industry publications and gave seminars in which he conveyed his view of documentary television.

Eckart Lottmann's brother is Joachim Lottmann , a German writer who currently lives and works in Vienna.

Filmography

• “On your own feet” (WDR, 45 min., 1988): Feature film about a Turkish girl in conflict with her conservative parents, script and direction together with Hartmut Horst
• "It's dark around me" (SDR, 45 min., 1989): Documentary about a blind teacher who teaches blind and visually impaired children and young people in a school in Stuttgart
• “The house of 18 houses” (WDR, 60 min., 1988–1990): Documentary film about the construction of an “eco house” by 18 families and the associated ecological experiments; Script and direction together with Alexander Ris
• “Who's a stranger here?” (ZDF, 20 min., 1990): portraits of several young Berliners of different nationalities
• "The dream of a legal-free space" (SFB / Arte / ELB-Film, 75 min., 1994): Documentary about six people who occupied houses in Berlin in 1980/81
• "You have to be a real guy" (SFB, 45 Min., 1995): Historical television documentary about the history of the Berlin fire brigade
• “What matters” (SFB, 45 Min., 2000): “Socially weak” young people in Berlin: Possibilities and limits of street social work using the example of “Gangway Berlin eV”, produced by ELB-Film.
• "Alarm 112" (SFB, 45 min., 2001): TV documentary about the 150 year old history of the Berlin professional fire brigade
• “Von Menschen und Kähnen” (SFB / NDR, 45 min., 2002): Historical television feature about inland navigation between Hamburg, Berlin and Stettin
• “From the Elbe to the Oder” (NDR / SFB, 60 min., 2002): Historical television documentary about the history of inland navigation in north-eastern Germany
• “Houses, hatred and street fighting” (RBB, 45 min., 2006): Documentation of contemporary history: What is left of the squatter movement in West Berlin 25 years later? With a focus on the events of September 1981 (death of 18-year-old protester Klaus-Jürgen Rattay )
• “Die Marzipan-Frau” (RBB, 15 min., 2007): Portrait of a woman who sells the Königsberg marzipan made by hand in a 60-year-old small pastry shop (in the series “Faces of Berlin”).
• “It's about the children” (EL-Filmproduktion / “Deutsche Welle TV”, 26 min., 2009): Documentation of a social project for poor children that a blind German organized at her own expense in Peru, and at the same time a portrait of them Woman.
• “With blue light and rubber truncheons” (RBB, 45 min., 2011): The film traces the history of the West Berlin police from the new beginning of the police in 1945 to the unification of the two German states in 1990. Contemporary witnesses report on the eventful history of the police in the front city.