Jürgen Böttcher

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Jürgen Böttcher (2009)
Jürgen Böttcher (2018)

Jürgen Traugott Hans Böttcher (born July 8, 1931 in Frankenberg / Sa. , Saxony ), known under the pseudonym Strawalde , is a German painter and film director who has lived in Berlin-Karlshorst for several years .

Life

Böttcher grew up in Strahwalde in Upper Lusatia and studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1953 . He then stayed in Dresden as a freelance artist until 1955 and taught in adult education courses, among others AR Penck , Peter Makolies , Peter Graf and Peter Herrmann , who formed the artist group Erste Phalanx Nedserd .

From 1955 to 1960 he studied directing at the University of Film and Television Potsdam and worked in the DEFA documentary film studio in Berlin until 1991 . Since 1975 he has had exhibitions with his pictures and graphics in Erfurt, Berlin, Dresden and Karl-Marx-Stadt, among others, and since 1990 in Paris, Brussels, Toronto, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Darmstadt.

In 1994 he was awarded the title “Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French President François Mitterrand for his complete artistic work. In Germany, Böttcher, who signs the works with Strawalde, borrowed after his place of birth, received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2001 . In 2006 he was honored with a camera at the Berlinale .

Böttcher's pictures can be found in the following public collections, among others: National Gallery Berlin , Collection of the German Bundestag in the Reichstag building , Albertinum (Dresden) , Dresden Residenzschloss , Albertina (Vienna) , Bibliothèque nationale de France , Museum Ludwig , Boston Public Library .

Film retrospectives took place in 1986 in the Center Pompidou in Paris, in 1988 at the Edinburgh 42nd International Film Festival and in 1989 in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Filmography and publications

  • 1957: The boy with the lamp (cut)
  • 1958: Dresden, a few years later (also book)
  • 1960: Necessary apprenticeship years (also book)
  • 1961: Three of many (also book)
  • 1962: Three of Us (co-directed and co-scripted)
  • 1962: Furnace maker (also book)
  • 1962: In the Pergamon Museum (also book)
  • 1963: New Year's Eve (also book)
  • 1963: Stars (also book)
  • 1963: Charlie and Co. (also book)
  • 1965: Barefoot and without a hat (also book)
  • 1965: Karl-Marx-Stadt. Current report and memory of Chemnitz (also co-script)
  • 1965: Children's theater (also book)
  • 1965: Year 45 (also co-script)
  • 1967: The Secretary (also book)
  • 1967: We were in Karl-Marx-Stadt (also book)
  • 1967: Festival of Friendship (also book)
  • 1968: Zoo film (also book)
  • 1968: A shop steward (also book)
  • 1969: Working family (also book)
  • 1970: Dialogue with Lenin (also book)
  • 1971: Song International (also book)
  • 1972: Washerwomen (also book)
  • 1972: For example Rewatex (also book)
  • 1974: Remember with Love and Hate (also co-script)
  • 1974: The Mamais (also book)
  • 1976: Großkochberg - Garden of the Public Landscape (also book)
  • 1977: A Weimar film (also book)
  • 1977: Im Lohmgrund (also book)
  • 1977: Murieta (also book)
  • 1978: Martha (also book)
  • 1981: Potter's bull (also book)
  • 1981: Venus after Giorgione (also book)
  • 1981: The woman at the clavichord (also book)
  • 1983: Three songs (also book)
  • 1984: The Most Beautiful Dream (also book)
  • 1984: Rangers (also book)
  • 1984: Short visit to Hermann Glöckner (also book)
  • 1987: The kitchen (also book)
  • 1987: In Georgia (also book)
  • 1990: The Wall (also book)
  • 2001: outdoor concert (also book)

Awards

Literature (selection)

  • Strawalde. Jürgen Böttcher. Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984306-3 .
  • FIRST PHALANX NEDSERD. Jürgen Böttcher / Strawalde, Winfried Dierske , Peter Graf, Peter Herrmann, Peter Makolies, Ralf Winkler / AR Penck. A circle of friends in Dresden 1953–1965. Catalog for the exhibition Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Lindenau-Museum Altenburg, 1991–1992.
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast (Ed.): As I Was Moving. Art and life. Schellerten 2004, ISBN 3-88842-026-1 .
  • Peter Joch (Ed.): Strawalde - Pictures until today. Catalog for the exhibition at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, September 30, 2007–13. January 2008. Darmstadt 2007.
  • Anke Scharnhorst:  Böttcher, Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Bernd Reinhardt: The director Jürgen Böttcher and his film concert outdoors
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strawalde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa. , Saxony, Germany