Gerhard Büttenbender
Gerhard Büttenbender (born September 20, 1938 in Darmstadt ) is a German media scientist , screenwriter , filmmaker and university lecturer .
Life
education
After attending humanistic grammar schools in Dieburg and Darmstadt and his Abitur in 1959, Büttenbender studied philosophy , history and art history at the University of Munich from 1959 to 1965 and then art education with Ernst Röttger at the University of Fine Arts in Kassel . He completed his studies in 1965 with the state examination. During his studies, drawings by him were shown in solo exhibitions in the Lometsch (Kassel) and Porta (Wuppertal) galleries .
Jugendhof Dörnberg
From 1965 he worked as a pedagogical employee in the youth farm of the State of Hesse on the Hohen Dörnberg near Zierenberg . He made short films and brought filmmakers, art and film critics to seminars at the Jugendhof Dörnberg . There he organized seminars on cultural education together with Christian Rittelmeyer. a. Werner Nekes , Dore O. , Reimut Reiche , Bazon Brock , Hansjürgen Rosenbauer , Harun Farocki , Hartmut Bitomsky , Katrin Seybold , Gerd Conradt and the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer were invited.
Kassel film collective
In 1968 Büttenbender founded the Kassel film collective with Adolf Winkelmann , Jutta Schmidt , their twin sister Gisela Schmidt , with whom he was married from 1969 to 1970, and other participants . In 1971/1972 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for visual communication at the University of Education in Göttingen. In 1971/72 Gerhard Büttenbender took part in the peaceful occupation of the Belgian settlement in Kassel. In 1972, together with Sigurd Hermes , he was appointed by Harald Szeemann to work in the area of film at documenta 5 ; for the first time they chose a film program for a documenta.
University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig
In 1973 Büttenbender was appointed as a lecturer at the HBK in Braunschweig and commissioned with the establishment and management of a film class. He developed and directed the film and video studies there until 2003; from 1990 together with Birgit Hein . In 1978 he was elected rector of the HBK in Braunschweig; he held the office until 1983. In 1980 he was appointed professor .
From 1983 to 1999 Büttenbender was a member of the Wiesbaden film evaluation board , and from 1986 to 1993 he was also a member of the Lower Saxony film commission.
From 1993 to 2003 he lived in Siegfried Neuenhausen's artist gallery “Kornbrennerei” in Hanover.
Filmography
Kassel film collective
- 1968: The camera is aimed at passers-by
- 1968/1969: Heinrich Viel
- 1968: Dear Gudrun
- 1969: The Höcherl
- 1969: Ruth Schmidt spoke
- 1969: Consuming love - glowing hatred
- 1969: Dear ones
- 1970: The face
- 1970/1971: What is our strength
- 1971/1972: Strike at Piper & Silz
TV productions
- 1974: The perfect world and its fairy tale heroes (ZDF)
- 1975: Children read comics (WDR)
Awards
- 1970: Grand Prize at the 15th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, for Heinrich Viel from the Kassel film collective
- 1970: Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim Film Festival for Ruth Schmidt from the Kassel film collective speaks
- 1997: Art Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
- Lower Saxony art award with experimental film works
- 2003: “Carte Blanche for Gerhard Büttenbender”, cinema in the Künstlerhaus Hannover
Participation in exhibitions
- 1970: Arts in Germany today , Kunsthalle Köln
- 1970–1972: Documenta 5, Kassel
- 1975: German Association of Artists Annual Exhibition, Dortmund
- 1975: un expérience d'art socio-écologique (together with Siegfried Neuenhausen ), Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- 1976: Summer exhibition at the Falazik Gallery, Neuenkirchen
- 1977: 1st federal exhibition of the Federal Association of Visual Artists , Stuttgart
Publications
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Christian Rittelmeyer: On the political significance of cultural education in German youth, Munich, July 1967
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Ulf Lüers: Description of a model - A contribution to cultural education in German youth, Munich, 1969
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Christian Rittelmeyer: Aesthetic Experiments - School of Tolerance An investigation into the influence of picture montages on intolerant attitudes in art and teaching, Hanover March 1969
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Christian Rittelmeyer: Experimental demonstrations in political education in modern social work, Kiel, 1970
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Adolf Winkelmann: Reflections on the political relevance of film in the International Youth Film Congress - a report, Aachen, 1970
- Ulf Lüers, Gerhard Büttenbender, Christian Rittelmeyer: Self-awareness and class situation, requirements and methods of political education. Juventa-Verlag, Munich, 1971.
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Christian Rittelmeyer: Demonstration experiments - use of aesthetic phenomena to reduce cognitive naivety in Hans Giffhorn (Ed.) Political education in the aesthetic field Friedrich Verlag, Hanover, 1971
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Sigurd Hermes: Realization area film - structural fields and work strategies in documenta 5 information, Kassel, April 1972
- Gerhard Büttenbender and Sigurd Hermes: Realization area film in documenta 5 catalog, Kassel, 1972
- Gerhard Büttenbender: Artistic fields of activity in the catalog of the federal exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Stuttgart 1977 --180.183.184.59 10:46, 12 Sep. 2017
- Birgit Hein and Gerhard Büttenbender (eds.): The film class of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig . Salon-Verlag, Cologne, 2000.
literature
- Gisela Getty, Jutta Winkelmann and Jamal Tuschick: The Twins or On Attempting to Kiss Money and Spirit, weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940888-01-3 , pp. 70-105.
- Bazon Brock: Training seminar at the youth farm in Dörnberg , in: Aesthetics as Mediation , DuMont Verlag, 1985.
- Braunschweiger Zeitung, July 5, 2003.
Web links
- Gerhard Büttenbender in the German biography
- Interview in the Braunschweiger Zeitung, accessed on July 5, 2017
- Filmography at Filmportal.de
- [1] Image by Gerhard Büttenbender
Footnotes
- ↑ The Jugendhof existed from 1963 to 2000.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Büttenbender, Gerhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, media scientist and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |