Gisela Getty

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Gisela Getty on the blue sofa , 2008

Gisela Martine Getty , née Schmidt (born April 3, 1949 in Kassel ) is a German photographer , director , designer and writer . Like her twin sister Jutta Winkelmann , she became known as a representative of the 1968 movement .

Life

Foundation of the Kassel film collective

Together with her sister Jutta, she attended the Waldorf School in Kassel and studied fashion, graphics, film and photography at the Kassel Art Academy from 1968 to 1972 . With her sister, the director Adolf Winkelmann and Gerhard Büttenbender , she founded the Kassel film collective in 1968 , which won the Grand Prix at the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen in 1969 . Your film shows the worker Heinrich Viel on the assembly line for 31 minutes - without editing . From 1971 to 1972 she was married to Gerhard Büttenbender.

Berlin, Rome, Los Angeles

Gisela Getty became popular, as did her twin sister Jutta Winkelmann, as a participant in the 1968 movement in Kassel and West Berlin. She moved to Berlin in 1972, fascinated by Rainer Langhans . In Berlin she met the actor Rolf Zacher , whom she followed to Rome , where he was engaged. In 1972 she married him for the second time and had a daughter with him, the actress and producer Anna Getty (born October 25, 1972). In the spring of 1973 she met the young John Paul Getty III in Italy, who was kidnapped in Rome in the summer of 1973 . Gisela Getty and her sister came under suspicion of complicity and were briefly detained. 1974 Gisela married John Paul Getty in third marriage; from this comes the actor Balthazar Getty (born January 22, 1975). Gisela Getty first lived in Los Angeles in 1974 and then in San Francisco . In 1980 the couple separated and Gisela Getty moved to Munich in 1981 . The marriage to John Paul Getty was divorced in 1993.

Her prominent acquaintances in Rome and Los Angeles in the 1970s included Dennis Hopper , Leonard Cohen , Bob Dylan , Carlo Ponti and Federico Fellini .

Admission to the harem

Her twin sister Jutta Winkelmann founded the " Harem " in Munich in 1976 with Rainer Langhans, the photographer Anna Werner and the photo model Brigitte Streubel , a predominantly spiritually oriented community of five women around Rainer Langhans, to which Christa Ritter joined in 1978 and Gisela Getty in 1991.

Documentary about Timothy Leary

Harvard lecturer Timothy Leary devoted himself primarily to research into psychedelic drugs . In the 1990s, dealing with the taboo subject of death became his new scientific focus. Gisela Getty and Jutta Winkelmann accompanied Leary on documentary films after he learned of his approaching death in 1994.

Literary activity

The book Die Zwillinge or From the attempt to kiss money and spirit , which she wrote together with her twin sister Jutta Winkelmann and the author Jamal Tuschick , tells the life story of both in the lived 68 generation in Kassel, Berlin and Rome. The book met with negative reviews, the NZZ reviewer described it as a “historical document of deluded narcissism” and a “vain, complacent book”. Matthias Matussek , however, wrote in the Spiegel : "A devilish cocktail of drug deliries, gangster madness and sex in artist beds" and "The twins have a sexual gangsterism, a sadomasochistic refinement that remains exciting even at second glance."

The book Unter dem Cherrytree , published in 2013, is described in a review of the daily newspaper Die Welt as "a private mythology [...], half Japanese manga , half Indian mythology, apocalypse and the eternally rolling wheel of life".

She lives as a photographer and author in Schwabing .

Works

  • Kidnapping Paul. The story of a kidnapping (together with Jutta Winkelmann), weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-86337-125-8 .
  • Under the Cherrytree (together with Jutta Winkelmann), BoD Norderstedt, Edition Bildstein, Leipzig, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-4630-4 .
  • The Twins (together with Jutta Winkelmann), Blumenbar, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-936738-72-8 .
  • The Twins or On Attempting to Kiss Money and Mind (together with Jutta Winkelmann and Jamal Tuschick), weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-940888-01-3 .
  • Future-Sex (together with Jutta Winkelmann), Metropolitan-Verlag, Düsseldorf, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89623-017-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gisela Getty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar von Taube: Wild twins of the 70s about drugs and sex. In: welt.de. February 6, 2010, accessed August 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Icons of the hippie era , stern.de, March 1, 2008
  3. ^ The Twins of the Revolt , bild.de, July 18, 2010
  4. ↑ "We just wanted to live intensely" , tagesspiegel.de, April 28, 2010
  5. ↑ Wild Twins and their night with Bob Dylan , welt.de, February 20, 2008
  6. ↑ Hell is going on in the harem , tagesspiegel.de, March 30, 2003
  7. ↑ Review notes on The Twins, or: From the attempt to kiss mind and money at perlentaucher.de
  8. ↑ Rainer Moritz: Revelation on the beach - gods' favorites remember . In: "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" from September 9, 2008.
  9. ↑ Matthias Matussek: Twice excess, please! In: spiegel.de. Retrieved March 10, 2008 .
  10. ^ Matthias Matussek: Log of an adventure trip into the unknown. In: welt.de. Retrieved March 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Getty, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Getty, Gisela Martine (full name); Schmidt, Gisela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, director, designer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel