Jutta Winkelmann

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Jutta Winkelmann on the blue sofa in 2008

Jutta Winkelmann , b. Schmidt (born April 3, 1949 in Kassel ; † February 23, 2017 in Munich ) was a German director , photographer , designer , screenwriter , actress and writer . Just like her twin sister Gisela Getty , she became known as a representative of the 1968 movement .

Life

Kassel film collective, Berlin, Rome

Until 1967 she attended the Waldorf School in Kassel and then studied at the University of Fine Arts in Kassel, first graphics and then photography with Floris Michael Neusüss . Together with her twin sister Gisela Schmidt, the filmmaker Adolf Winkelmann and Gerhard Büttenbender , she founded the Kassel film collective in Kassel in 1968 . 1972 married Jutta Schmidt Adolf Winkelmann and went with her sister in Berlin to the municipality 1 to Rainer Langhans join.

In spring 1972 she followed her twin sister Gisela and her friend, the actor Rolf Zacher , to Rome . There she met the opium- growing Bommi Baumann . The Italian producer Carlo Ponti offered her and her twin sister a five-year film contract, which she refused. Instead of going to the cinema, Jutta Winkelmann opted for life, “that was even more fantastic”. Federico Fellini cast the "twins from Germany" for a film. They didn't get the roles because they didn't have a phone - because they just wanted their freedom. Jutta Winkelmann wanted to lead a life that was so exciting that in the end she could write a book about it.

When the grandson of the American multimillionaire J. Paul Getty , John Paul Getty III , whom her sister Gisela had met in Italy that same year, was kidnapped in 1973, the twin sisters were temporarily detained as suspects. In 1974 her sister married John Paul Getty III. The actor Balthazar Getty (born January 22, 1975) from this marriage is her nephew.

After her twin sister and her husband moved to Los Angeles in 1974 , Jutta Winkelmann attended drama school and the University of Television and Film in Munich for a few semesters . She turned to Buddhism during this time . Jutta Winkelmann played a leading role in the satirical feature film In Danger and Greatest Need, filmed in 1974 , the middle way brings the deaths of Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz a leading role.

Together with her twin sister Gisela Getty, Jutta Winkelmann formed the It-Girl couple of the German 68 movement, whereby she was more concerned with changing herself than society.

Establishment of the harem

Jutta Winkelmann founded the “ Harem ” in Munich in 1976 together with Rainer Langhans , the photographer Anna Werner and the model Brigitte Streubel , a predominantly spiritually oriented community of five women around Langhans, to which Christa Ritter joined in 1978 and her twin sister Gisela in 1991 which still exists today.

Documentary about Timothy Leary

In Los Angeles, the twin sisters met 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 research area. The twin sisters and filmmakers Gisela Getty and Jutta Winkelmann accompanied him in documentary filmmaking while dealing with his approaching death in 1994.

Literary activity

Jutta Winkelmann, Gisela Getty and Jamal Tuschick wrote The Twins or The Attempt to Kiss Money and Spirit . It tells the life story of the two twin sisters in the 68 generation. The book received bad reviews, the NZZ reviewer described it as a “historical document of deluded narcissism” and as a “vain, complacent book”. Matthias Matussek , however, wrote in the Spiegel : "A diabolical 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 project Unter dem Cherrytree , written together with her sister Gisela Getty 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".

The last few years in Munich

In 2014, Jutta Winkelmann made her disease of bone metastases from a previous breast cancer public. Winkelmann documented her fight against cancer in the book Mein Leben ohne mich , published at the end of 2016 . The last entry in her blog is titled no haiku and begins with “I won't be here for a long time / possible, my god says / probably, I think”.

The mother of a son and a daughter lived as a director, photographer and author in Munich - Schwabing .

Works

  • Kidnapping Paul. The story of a kidnapping (together with Gisela Getty), weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-86337-125-8 .
  • My life without me , weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86337-112-8 .
  • Under the Cherrytree (together with Gisela Getty), BoD Norderstedt, Edition Bildstein, Leipzig, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-4630-4 .
  • The twins or On the attempt to kiss money and mind (together with Gisela Getty and Jamal Tuschick), weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-940888-01-3 .
  • Living in freedom , (audio-visual, film), Kamphausen, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-933496-47-0 .
  • The harem experiment: encounters with Rainer Langhans , the last APOnaut , Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-453-13284-9 .
  • Future-Sex (together with Gisela Getty), Metropolitan-Verlag, Düsseldorf / Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89623-017-4 .

Exhibitions

  • The Twins A visual journey by Gisela Getty & Jutta Winkelmann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg 2011

Web links

Commons : Jutta Winkelmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Schröder: Winkelmann has passed away . tagesspiegel.de , February 23, 2017, accessed March 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Irmgard Hochreither: Icons of the hippie era . stern.de , March 1, 2008, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ Barbara Nolte: Hell is going on in the harem . tagesspiegel.de , March 30, 2003, accessed March 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Review notes on The Twins, or: From the attempt to kiss mind and money at perlentaucher.de
  5. ↑ Rainer Moritz: Revelation on the beach - gods' favorites remember . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 9, 2008, accessed on March 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ Matthias Matussek: '68 icons Getty and Winkelmann: Twice excess, please! Spiegel Online , March 10, 2008, accessed March 3, 2017.
  7. ^ Matthias Matussek: Log of an adventure trip into the unknown . Die Welt , March 5, 2014, accessed February 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ulrich Feld: TV review: “What really counts in the end”: Life with a death sentence . ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2017 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. Frankfurter Neue Presse , November 25, 2015, accessed on February 26, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  9. ↑ Christian Schröder: It girl of the 68 movement . tagesspiegel.de , February 23, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Winkelmann, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Jutta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 23rd February 2017
Place of death Munich , Germany