Ulrike Ottinger

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Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger (* 6. June 1942 as Ulrike Weinberg in Konstanz ) is an avant-garde, contemporary German artist. She is particularly well-known and successful as a filmmaker , painter and photographer.

Life

Ulrike Ottinger, daughter of the foreign language correspondent Maria Weinberg and the art and decorative painter Ulrich Ottinger, grew up on Lake Constance. After completing secondary school, she first completed an apprenticeship in a bank. From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter. From 1962 to 1968 Ottinger lived and worked as a painter in Paris and studied etching technology with Johnny Friedlaender . She participated in several pop art exhibitions and wrote her first screenplay in 1966, entitled The Mongolian Double Drawer .

When she returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1969, she founded the film club “Visuell” in collaboration with the film seminar at the University of Konstanz, which she ran until 1972. She set up a gallery and an associated print shop, the “galeriepress”, with which she edited contemporary art and developed it into a focal point for avant-garde visual art. In 1973 Ottinger returned to West Berlin, where she still lives today. There she worked for many years with the actress and scene artist Tabea Blumenschein , who with Magdalena Montezuma became the leading actress in her films from 1972 onwards. Ottinger developed an expressive, bizarre-surrealistic film style, which is characterized by the extensive renunciation of linear storylines.

Ottinger also worked for the theater and staged Elfriede Jelinek's Clara S. at the Stuttgart State Theater in 1983 , Jelinek's desire and driving license in Graz in 1986, and Johann Nestroy's magic posse The engagement party in the Feenreich at the Styrian Autumn 1999 .

Ottinger has been fascinated by non-European societies since childhood. Mongolian and Japanese formal language is recognized and expressed in her documentaries and feature films. Ottinger shot documentaries about Asian cultures, including the four and a half hour work China - the arts - everyday life and the eight and a half hour production Taiga .

Ottinger was invited to Kassel in July 1997 as part of the series 100 days - 100 guests of documenta 10 and again to documenta 11 in 2002 . The exhibition “Floating Food” caused a sensation in 2011 in the House of World Cultures . In 2005, a retrospective of her photographs was published by Deutscher Verlag für Moderne Kunst under the title Ulrike Ottinger. Image archives. Photographs 1970–2005. In 2008 Laurence Arthur Rickels , professor at the University of California , published an overview of the artist's life and work under the title Ulrike Ottinger: the Autobiography of Art Cinema . Within the book interviews with Ottinger and excerpts from her photographic work are brought together to explore filmmaking and the possibility of art film. Your films are regularly invited to the Berlinale.

Ottinger is a member of the European Film Academy . In 2019 she received an invitation to membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscar . In 2020 she was awarded the Berlinale Camera at the 70th Berlinale , where her new documentary Paris Calligrammes was presented as a contribution in the Berlinale Special section . The film is also a homage to the Parisian bookstore of the same name founded by Fritz Picard , which is the central location of the film.

Filmography

  • 1972: Laocoon & Sons
  • 1973: Berlin - Fieber (Documentation of the happening by Wolf Vostell )
  • 1975: The infatuation of the blue sailors
  • 1976: VOAEX
  • 1978: Madame X - An absolute ruler
  • 1979: Portrait of a drinker
  • 1981: Freak Orlando
  • 1984: Dorian Gray in the mirror of the tabloid press
  • 1985: China - the arts - everyday life. A cinematic travelogue.
  • 1986: Superbia - pride
  • 1987: Usinimage
  • 1988: Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
  • 1990: countdown
  • 1992: Taiga
  • 1997: Exile in Shanghai
  • 2002: Southeast Passage
  • 2002: The copy
  • 2002: Ester
  • 2004: Twelve chairs
  • 2007: Prater
  • 2008: Seoul Women Happiness
  • 2008: The Korean wedding chest
  • 2009: Still Moving
  • 2011: Under snow
  • 2016: Chamisso's shadow
  • 2016: Aloha
  • 2020: Paris Calligrammes

Radio plays

  • 1994: Taiga. Stories from the northern country of the Mongols . Radio play in seven parts. With Wolfgang Condrus , Marianne Lochert, Hildegard Schmahl . Director: Ulrike Ottinger. SWF / BR / SFB 1994.
  • 1997: Exile in Shanghai . An audio montage in six parts. With Christiane Bachschmidt, Patrick Blank, Hille Darjes , Wolfgang Hinze , Friedhelm Ptok , Margarete Salbach, Veronika Spindler, Helmut Wöstmann. Director: Ulrike Ottinger. SWF / SFB 1997.
  • 2012: Under snow . Radio play in two parts. With Hanns Zischler , Yumiko Tanaka, Yuko Takemichi, Beate Hundsdörfer, Dietmar Herriger, Yoko Tawada, Hiroomi Fukuzawa, Norio Takasugi, Yasutsugu Shichi, Sumio Suga. Composition: Yumiko Tanaka, realization: Ulrike Ottinger. BR radio play and media art 2012. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1981: Freak Orlando - An overall artistic concept. Installation and photographs. DAAD gallery, Berlin
  • 1993: Taiga. Ethnographic Museum Zurich . Further stations: Filmmuseum Düsseldorf , Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim, etc. a.
  • 2000: Stills. David Zwirner Gallery , New York
  • 2001: Sessions. Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin bild-archive. Kunst - Werke, Berlin in cooperation with Filmkunsthaus Babylon and Arsenal, Berlin
  • 2002: Documenta 11 , Kassel
  • 2004: Ulrike Ottinger. Image archives. Witte de With . Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Faces, Found Objects, and Rough Riders. ArtPace, San Antonio / Texas
  • 2005: En Face. Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal - Unteröwisheim
  • 2007: Film.kunst: Ulrike Ottinger. Museum for Film and Television , Berlin
  • 2011: House of World Cultures | Berlin - Ulrike Ottinger 'Floating Food', a collage from the films Taiga, Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia and China. The arts - everyday life.
  • 2012: Goetz Collection | Munich - Ulrike Ottinger 'Floating Food'
  • 2013: Ulrike Ottinger | Worldviews. Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
  • 2016: Ulrike Ottinger . Museo Vostell Malpartida
  • 2019: Paris Calligrammes. A landscape of memories by Ulrike Ottinger. House of World Cultures , Berlin.

Group exhibitions

  • 2018: “ I'm a Believer.” Pop Art and contemporary art from the Lenbachhaus and the KiCo Foundation. Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich. (Here graphics by the artist were shown and preserved, which were created at the end of the 1960s and show formal parallels to Pop Art.)

literature

  • Ulrike Ottinger: Madame X an absolute ruler. Script. [Facsimile Edition] Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Ulrike Ottinger: Freak Orlando. Small world theater in five episodes. Screenplay, facsimile edition. Medusa Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Ulrike Ottinger: Taiga: a journey to the northern country of the Mongols. Nishen, Berlin 1993.
  • Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek (ed.): Ulrike Ottinger. Texts and documents. Kinemathek 86, Berlin 1995.
  • Ulrike Ulrike: Image archive; Photographs 1970-2005. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 3-938821-15-9 .
  • Laurence A. Rickels, Ulrike Ottinger: An autobiography of the cinema. B-Books, Berlin 2006.
  • Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television (Ed.): Film.kunst: Ulrike Ottinger . DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-65-4 .
  • Kristina Jaspers: Longing images of transformation. The film artist Ulrike Ottinger. In: film-dienst 21/2007, pp. 13–15, ISSN  0720-0781 .
  • Ulrike Ottinger: Floating Food. Floating dishes - House of World Cultures. Artist book. Walther König, Berlin 2011.
  • Ingvild Goetz , Karsten Löckemann, Susanne Touw (eds.): Ulrike Ottinger . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3462-2 .
  • Katharina Sykora : Vis à Vis. Ulrike Ottinger: Portrait / Collection. Self-published, Berlin 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Ottinger: Image Archives. Photographs 1970–2005. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 3-938821-14-0 .
  2. ↑ Laurence A. Rickels : Ulrike Ottinger, the autobiography of art cinema. University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8166-5331-7 .
  3. ↑ Members. The European Film Academy, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Matt Donnelly, Marc Malkin: Academy Reaches Gender Parity in 2019 New Member Invitations. In: Variety . July 1, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Berlinale Camera 2020: Honor for Ulrike Ottinger . In: berlinale.de, January 28, 2020 (accessed January 28, 2020).
  6. ^ Daniel Kothenschulte: Poetry and Politics. "Paris Calligrammes": The great filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a grandiose documentary portrait of the Parisian bohemians of the early sixties. , Frankfurter Rundschau , March 5, 2020
  7. ↑ ulrikeottinger.com
  8. ^ BR radio play Pool - Ottinger, Unter Schnee
  9. ↑ Flyer for the 2011 exhibition in the House of World Cultures
  10. ↑ Ulrike Ottinger. Museo Vostell Malpartida, 2016
  11. ↑ Pop Art in restoration: Ulrike Ottinger's “Dieu de Guerre”. In: Lenbachhaus. March 29, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ottinger, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy