Gerhard Büttenbender

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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

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Jugendhof existed from 1963 to 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Büttenbender, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, media scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt