Jörg Buttgereit

Jörg Buttgereit, 2015

Jörg Buttgereit (born December 20, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German author , film, radio play and theater director and film critic .

Life

Buttgereit became known in the German horror film and splatter genre through his films Nekromantik and Schramm . These films have also appeared in Japan, the UK and the US. As a director he worked for feature films that can be added to horror films and art films.

He works as a film critic for epd Film , the film magazine ray, the Berlin city magazine tip , Splatting Image , the film magazine deadline and the online youth magazine fluter . He also produced radio plays for public broadcasters.

In May 2005 he staged the Ramones musical Gabba Gabba Hey in the Columbia Club in Berlin . In 2006 he published a book about the Japanese "giant monster cinema" in which authors deal with Godzilla and similar monsters. "Godzilla" is one of Buttgereit's favorite subjects, which he has already dealt with in two radio works, a documentary film and two books.

In November 2007, the play Captain Berlin vs. Hitler premiere in the Hebbel Theater "(HAU1)" in Berlin. The piece is based on Buttgereit's own radio play Captain Berlin vs. Dracula , which was created in 2006 for West German Broadcasting Corporation. Buttgereit edited and staged the play for the stage and appeared as the monster Germanikus, patched up from body parts of German soldiers . The character of the German superhero Captain Berlin was conceived by Buttgereit for a short film in 1982. The comics series Captain Berlin has been published by Weissblech Verlag since 2013 , for which Buttgereit is responsible as author and editor.

From March 2009 to March 2010, Buttgereit staged a five-part series of Buttgereit's film lessons under the title RoughCuts in the Hebbel Theater , in which he staged lectures, performances and film discussions on various film genres.

In the film Making of Süße Stuten 7 - Die Porno-Comedy (2009) Buttgereit plays the role of a porn director.

In 2011 Buttgereit staged a stage version of his radio plays Sexmonster and Green Frankenstein in the studio of Schauspiel Dortmund . In 2012, a stage version of his radio play Ed Gein Superstar was staged under the title Cannibals and Love in the studio of Schauspiel Dortmund. The following year, Buttgereit staged a stage version of Bernard Pomerance's Broadway play The Elephant Man in the Dortmund Schauspiel studio , which focused on the case of Joseph Merrick . In 2014 he staged his play Nosferatu lives! and 2015 Obsessed again in the studio of the Schauspiel Dortmund.

In 2015 the episode film German Angst was completed, for which Buttgereit realized an episode. The other directors involved were Michal Kosakowski and Andreas Marschall .

Filmography (director)

• 1977: Interview with Frankenstein (3 min.)
• 1980: The exploding sneaker (2 min.)
• 1981: Manne - the Muwi (10 min.), Mein Papi (original version) (8 min.), Ogar the Ugly (6 min.)
• 1982: The trend - punk rockers talk about their lives (25 min.), Captain Berlin - Savior of the World (15 min.), Bloody excesses in the Führerbunker (6 min.)
• 1983: Der Gollob (25 min.), Untitled (45 sec., Short film contribution No. 12 in Overnight Famous , Prod. Stiletto , company from hand to mouth)
• 1984: JB'ns Horror Heaven (25 min.)
• 1984: So was SO 36 - An Evening of Nostalgia (co-director with Manfred Jelinski ) (90 min.)
• 1985: Hot Love (40 min.), Episode in Jesus - The Movie (Crucifixion) (3 min.)
• 1987: Necromantic (68 min.)
• 1989: The Death King (74 min.)
• 1991: Nekromantik 2 (104 min.)
• 1992: Corpse Fucking Art (60 min.)
• 1993: Schramm (70 min.), The Making of Schramm (30 min.)
• 1995: I can't let go (music video for Shock Therapy ), Without Sadness (music clip for Fleischmann )
• 1996: Neue Zeit (for the band Mutter ), Kondom des Horens (Special Effects Supervisor)
• 1997: Rise up (music clip for Die Krupps ), A subversive romantic in the German horror film (TV documentary by Alexander Kluge, dctp), The glass sarcophagi (TV documentary for dctp)
• 1998: Teenage Makeup (music video for Dance or Die ), Lexx - The Dark Zone (episodes Nook and 791 )
• 2001: Missy Queen's gonna die (music clip for Toktok )
• 2002: Die Monsterinsel (Documentary for WDR)
• 2004: Journey to Happiness (Special Effects Supervisor)
• 2006: Search for contact (music video by the band Cockbirds , script and direction, download option on the band's website ( Memento from December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
• 2007: Through the night with Michaela Schaffrath and Mark Benecke (director, ZDF / ARTE)
• 2007: Through the night with Asia Argento and Joe Coleman (director, ZDF / Arte)
• 2008: Monsterland (director, documentary ZDF / Arte)
• 2009: Captain Berlin Versus Hitler (theater adaptation)
• 2010: Through the night with Oda Jaune and Lars Eidinger (director, ZDF / Arte)
• 2011: Shaolin Monkeys (music video for Klaus Beyer & Osaka Popstar)
• 2011: Making of Süße Stuten 8 (cast by the porn director)
• 2011: Video Nasty (screen adaptation)
• 2011: Dracula chasing Frankenstein (preface (13 min.) To DVD by Filmart)
• 2012: The woman in music (music video for Stereo Total)
• 2012: A moment of silence at Ed Gein's grave (short film, 2 min.)
• 2013: Green Frankenstein (screen adaptation)
• 2013: sex monsters! (Theater adaptation)
• 2013: Lemmy I'm a Feminist (music video for Half Girl)
• 2015: German Angst (episode film, script and direction of the episode Final Girl )
• 2015: The Man Who Made Godzilla Fly (short film, 11 min.)
• 2020: Piggy - A decomposition film with Mark Benecke

Filmography (actor)

• 1994: The other universe of Klaus Beyer, director: Frank Behnke
• 2000: Fear, Panic & Censorship, directed by David Kenny
• 2004: Celluloid Horror, directed by Ashley Fester
• 2005: We were never here, directed by Antonia Ganz
• 2006: The Meltdown Memoirs, directed by Roy Frumkes
• 2006: Through the night with: Bruce LaBruce and Jörg Buttgereit, director: Hasko Baumann, arte
• 2007: Inside the Mind of a Splatter Director, directed by Reinert Kiil
• 2007: Kill the Artist, director: Andreas Troeger
• 2009: Making of Süße Stuten 7 - Die Porno-Comedy , director: Daniel Hyan
• 2010: Strawberry Fields Forever, directed by Holger Hahn, Inga Kaiser & Sandra Röseler
• 2011: Making of 'Süße Stuten 8, directed by Daniel Hyan
• 2014: Morbid Fascination: The Nekromantik Legacy, directed by Ewan Cant
• 2014: In Conversation with the Death King, directed by Ewan Cant
• 2015: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979–1989, directed by Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange & Klaus Maeck
• 2015: Cinema Perverso - The wonderful and broken world of the station cinema, director: Oliver Schwehm
• 2015: ABCs of Superheroes , directed by Oliver Tietgen and Jens Holzheuer
• 2017: VideoHunterS, director: Daniel Hyan
• 2017: The VHS Imperium - When Cinema Came Home, directed by Dimitri Kourtchine
• 2017: VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary, directed by Tony Newton

Radio plays / radio features

• Sexy Sushi (WDR 2001)
• Ed Gein Superstar (WDR 2002)
• Frankenstein in Hiroshima (WDR 2002)
• Bruce Lee - the little dragon (WDR 2003)
• Interview with a monster (Deutschlandradio 2004)
• Horror Entertainment (WDR 2004)
• Video Nasty (WDR 2005)
• Captain Berlin vs. Dracula (WDR 2006)
• Sex explosion in Shinjuku (WDR 2007)
• Sex Monster (WDR 2009)
• Green Frankenstein (WDR 2011)
• The Beast of Fukushima (WDR 2012)
• The fairy tale of the unbelievable super Kim from Pyongyang (WDR 2014)
• Fungus - mushroom of horror (WDR 2016, with Bodo Traber)
• Summer of Hate (WDR 2018)
• Satan was a Lady (WDR 2019)

theatre

• Gabba Gabba Hey! The Ramones Musical , German version of the Australian musical (2005, Columbia Halle )
• Captain Berlin vs. Hitler , radio play implementation for the stage (2007, Hebbel-Theater )
• GREEN FRANKENSTEIN and SEXMONSTER , implementation of the two radio plays of the same name for the stage (2011, Theater Dortmund )
• Cannibals and love. A true crime tragedy , world premiere on October 21, 2012 at Theater Dortmund (studio)
• The Elephant Man , world premiere on November 29, 2013 in Theater Dortmund (studio)
• Nosferatu lives! , World premiere on November 29, 2014 in Theater Dortmund
• Obsessed , world premiere on October 23, 2015 in Theater Dortmund
• The Living Dead or: Monsters of Reality , premiere on March 4, 2017 at the Schauspiel Essen
• Jörg Buttgereit`s Nackt und Zerfleischt , series of talks at Theater Dortmund . World premiere January 13, 2018
• Nobody hears you screaming in the studio , premiere on September 16, 2018 in the Dortmund Theater

bibliography

• 1998: Sex Murder Art - The Films of Jörg Buttgereit (Author: David Kerekes)
• 1998: Japanese monsters attack. Godzilla, Gamera and Co
• 2000: "It's only a movie" . In: Heide Baumann and Clemens Schwender (eds.): Kursbuch Neue Medien. A reality check . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, Munich, pp. 198–204
• 2001: Nightmares in Plastic (co-authors: Thomas Ecke, and Rainer F. Engel)
• 2004: Alternative Europe - Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema (Authors: Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik)
• 2006: Japan - Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamera, Frankenstein and Co.
• 2007: Nekromantik (Editor)
• 2013: Captain Berlin # 1 (comic, author)
• 2014: Captain Berlin 2: Hitler's homunculus attacks! (Comic, author)
• 2015: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979–1989 , documentary with Mark Reeder , directed by Jörg A. Hoppe , Klaus Maeck , Heiko Lange and Alexander von Sturmfeder, 92 min
• 2015: Captain Berlin 3: Showdown in London (comic, author)
• 2015: Captain Berlin 4: The Secret of Otto Todt (comic, author)
• 2015: Especially Worthless - Film Texts (Author)
• 2016: Captain Berlin 5: Captain Berlin in North Korea (comic, author)
• 2016: Nekromantik Comic Magazin # 1 (Author, Editor)
• 2016: Captain Berlin 6: Comrade Berlin attacks (comic, author)
• 2017: Captain Berlin 7: Captain Berlin against the horrible VHS man (comic, author)
• 2017: Captain Berlin Supersammelband # 1 (comic, author)
• 2018: Captain Berlin 8: The Picture Booklet of Death (comic, author)
• 2019: Captain Berlin 9: Attack of the 50 Meter Ilse (comic, author)
• 2019: Captain Berlin special edition: Free Comic Tag / CB against the green figment of hell
• 2020: Captain Berlin 10: Space-Hitler! (Comic, author)

Web links

• Official website of Jörg Buttgereit
• Jörg Buttgereit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jörg Buttgereit at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Jörg Buttgereit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview about the radio play Buttgereits
• Jörg Buttgereit in CultD NecromaniaX 2000 (video documentation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Höltgen: film lessons from the theater. ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: F.LM - Texts on the film . March 21, 2010. 
2. ↑ Famous overnight , full-length movie on YouTube , last accessed October 2, 2018
3. ↑ Information on the play at the Dortmund Theater ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Season preview 2012/13 at Theater Dortmund (PDF; 758 kB)
5. ↑ Nekromantik # 1. In: weissblechcomics.com. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .