Vera Botterbusch

Vera Botterbusch (born February 10, 1942 in Dortmund ) is a German author , director , filmmaker and photographer .

Life

Vera Botterbusch studied Romance Studies, German Studies, Directing and Art in Bonn, Münster, Grenoble and Munich. The freelance writer and director, filmmaker and photographer became known for her films on literature, art and music, especially for Bavarian television, and for her journalistic work, especially for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, through her theater work and exhibitions. Vera Botterbusch is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK), the VBK (Association of Visual Artists), the VS (Association of German Writers (ver.di)) and the PEN. Vera Botterbusch lives in Munich and in the Bavarian Bohemian Forest.

Works

Publications

Poetry

in magazines (including pumpkin seed) and anthologies

• But I'm drunk with you , love poems, edited by Jan Hans, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1979
• Since you've been gone , love poems afterwards, Ed. Jan Hans, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1982
• Street poems by Joachim Fuhrmann, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1982
• Everything is changing - Echoes of Ovid, Eds. Gabrielle Alioth and Hans-Christian Oeser, P&L Edition, Munich, 2016

Photo books

Resonances, Photographic Expeditions , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau, 2012
The world is a market, photographs from Abeokuta and Isara / Nigeria , the Nigerian Nobel Prize for Literature Wole Soyinka on his 80th birthday, State Library Passau, 2014
And the world begins to sing , photographs from Vera Botterbusch, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, 2017

Essays

on contemporary art in art catalogs and art books on u. a .: Else Bechteler, Christina von Bitter, Heino von Damnitz, Christoph Drexler, Kim Young Hee, Alfred Kaiser, Werner Knaupp, Erika Maria Lankes, Andreas Legath, Folker Lerche, Klaus Liebig, Erich Lindenberg, Vera Novottny, Hans Nyga, Nils -Udo, Ana Uribe, Gerda Wasmuth-Pohley, Woty Werner and others

Editor of Gotthelf Gollner's works

• A oide Lindn is a Gschicht Sprüche and Gedichte, Hugendubel Verlag, Munich 1981
• If you don't need anything, Höifan da olle , Gesammelte Sprüche und Gedichte, Morsak Verlag, Grafenau 1988
• Co-editor (with Klaus Konjetzky) To live in two places , Heimat-Histories, authors' edition in the Athenäum Verlag, Königstein / Ts. 1979; Wilhelm Goldmann Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1985

Theater works

Literary-musical collages

• To love or to die, preludes and night pieces of a relationship , George Sand and Frédéric Chopin with Laura Konjetzky (piano), first performance in Munich, Institut Français, November 2004, further performances in Rostock, Lüneburg, Passau
• Adalbert Stifter, Der Hochwald , Ein WORT-KLANG-PROJEKT with Laura Konjetzky, Lauren Newton, Sebi Tramontana and Udo Wachtveitl, first performance Passau, European Weeks, July 2005
• Small asphalt steps, transformance with texts by Klaus Konjetzky, with SahraHuby (dance), Laura Konjetzky, Christoph Reiserer (music), Vera Botterbusch (voice), 2008
• Souviens-toi: Remember , a collage with texts by Paul Celan, Robert Merle, Patrick Modiano and others, photographs and film clips by Vera Botterbusch, piano music by Erwin Schulhoff, with Laura Konjetzky (piano), Siemen Rühaak, Margrit Sartorius, Vera Botterbusch ( Spokesman), first performance in the Black Box in Gasteig Munich, January 2018

Literary theater

• Anna Karenina , Vom Leben, Lieben und Vergehen, a play for 3 actors based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with Wolfgang Hinze, Juliane Köhler, Siemen Rühaak and Laura Konjetzky, world premiere Passau, European weeks, June 2008

Film work

Documentaries and feature documentaries

mainly about French and German literature, music, art, poetic journeys and landscape portraits such as:

• Structures, woven pictures - textile objects, 45 min., BR 1978
• The Hebrides , approach to music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 45 min., BR 1980
• Studies and responsibility, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, 30 min., BR 1982
• The hunt for happiness, Hommage à Stendhal , with Hartmut Reck, 45 min., SR 1982
• The long speech that I am , The poet Louis Aragon, 45 min., BR 1983
• The California of Poetry , Hans Christian Andersen in Sweden, 45 min., BR 1984
• The feeling of vague sensations , The writer Nathalie Sarraute, 60 min., BR 1985
• Where the wild bulls live , A story on the road from the Camargue, 45 min., BR 1985
• Music of a Landscape , The composer Jean Sibelius, 45 min., BR 1986
• You have to tell the truth , The Writer Julien Green, 60 min., BR 1987
• From Jünger to Jelinek , German literature in France, 45 min., BR 1988
• With the donkey through the Cevennes , A journey to Robert Louis Stevenson, 45 min., BR 1988
• A Provencal Pan , the writer Jean Giono, 45 min., BR 1989
• Every street leads to childhood , the writer Horst Bienek, 45 min., BR 1990
• The time we still have , Carl Amery - a Bavarian lateral thinker, 45 min., BR 1991
• Trees in the way , What will become of the East German avenues, with Günter de Bruyn, 45 min., BR 1992
• Everyone carries their head between their shoulders for themselves , Alfred Döblin's trip to Poland, 60 min., BR 1992
• And my soul spread its wings wide , The Malerstraße through Saxon Switzerland, 45 min., BR 1993
• In the slipstream of the wall , Günter de Bruyn - chronicler of his time, 60 min., BR 1993
• Lost at home , Ernst Barlach - artist in dark times, 45 min., BR 1994
• Weird in nowhere, The poet Wolfgang Bächler , 45 min., BR 1996
• Pictures of a landscape, Der Ammersee , 45 min., BR 1996
• Pictures of a Landscape, Der Pfaffenwinkel , 45 Min., BR 1996
• Love, hatred and passion, André Gide and Madeleine , with Jürgen Arndt and Ingrid Resch, 45 min., BR 1997
• Pictures of a landscape, The Luberon , with Joe Downing and Serge Fiorio, 45 min., BR 1997
• Heart tones, Theodor Fontane and the women in his novels , with Wolfgang Hinze, Marina Busse, Karin Frey, Tanja Kübler, Nina Langer, Regine Leonhardt, 45 min., BR 1998
• Pictures of a landscape, The Massif des Maures , 45 min., BR 1998
• I want to be happy or the art of living , Caroline Schlegel-Schelling with Tanja Kübler, Roman Dudler, Eva Mende, Silvia Fink, Thomas Koch, Angela Bohrmann, Oliver Boysen, 45 min., BR 1999
• Pictures of a landscape, The Land around Arles , 45 min., BR 1999
• Heavenly World Theater, Tyrolean Baroque Roads between Innsbruck and Landeck , 45 min., BR 1999
• Pictures of a landscape, Im Vaucluse , 45 min., BR 2000
• A childhood in Nigeria, Wole Soyinka , 45 min., BR 2000
• Narrated country, In southern Brittany, The writer Jean Rouaud , 45 min., BR 2001
• Late Gothic streets, between Inn and Salzach , 45 min., BR 2001
• Pictures of a landscape, Hungarian impressions , Around the Danube Bend, 45 min., BR 2002
• Athens underworld, the writer Petros Markaris , 45 min., BR 2002
• The painter of the galant festivals, Antoine Watteau , with Anna Konjetzky, 45 min., 3 SAT 2002 / BR 2003
• Sense and Sensibility, The Flemish Still Life , 45 min., BR 2002
• Pictures of a landscape, In Bas Languedoc , with Jean Joubert, 45 min., BR 2002
• The women of the seafarers , With Ioanna Karystiani on Crete and Andros, 45 min., BR 2003
• Late Gothic streets, in Mühlvierte'l , 45 min., BR 2003
• Pictures of a landscape, In the Limousin , 45 min., BR 2003
• Pictures of a landscape, In the Bavarian Spessart , 45 min., BR 2005
• Vision and dream, Das Cuvilliés-Theater in Munich , with HRH Duke Franz von Bayern, Dieter Dorn, Christoph Hammer, Juliane Köhler, Herta Töpper, 45 min., BR 2005
• Excursions into the future, The 55th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau , 60 min., BR 2005
• Stage pictures, 'Norma' in the workshops of the Bavarian State Opera , 60 min., BR 2006
• Intermezzo in the Munich Hofgarten , 30 min., BR 2006
• Intermezzo in Nymphenburger Park , 30 min. BR 2006
• Intermezzo in the Schleissheimer Schlosspark , 30 min. BR 2007

Films and short films

for the literary magazines "books taken literally" and "bookmarks" with / over u. a.

Carl Amery, Friedrich Ani, Louis Aragon, Margaret Atwood, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wolfgang Bächler, Balthus, Constantin von Barlöwen, Charles Baudelaire, Ulrich Becher, Jurek Becker, Torsten Becker, Hans Bender, Ulla Berkévicz, Manfred Bieler, Raphaelle Billetdoux, Françoise Bouillot , Yves Bonnefoy, Louis Paul Boon, Nicolaus Born, Günter de Bruyn, Frédéric Chopin, Colette, John Cranko, FC Delius, Franz Dobler, Ingeborg Drewitz, Gisela Elsner, Annie Ernaux, Federico Fellini, Hubert Fichte, Gustave Flaubert, Pierrette Fleutiaux, Theodor Fontane, Edward Morgan Forster, Erich Fried, Max Fürst, Consuelo Garcia, Ernst H. Gombrich, Julien Green, Horatio Häberle. Margarete Hannsmann, Gert Heidenreich, Hans Werner Henze, Aritha van Herk, Reinhard Jirgl, Jean Joubert, Ingomar von Kieseritzky, Heinar Kipphardt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Sarah Kirsch, Karin Kiwus, Paul Klee, Arthur Koestler, Klaus Konjetzky, Alfred Kubin, Olaf Lagercrantz, Hermann Lenz, Franz Liszt, Noëlle Loriot, René Magritte, Peter Maiwald, Julie Manet, Petros Markaris, Henri Matisse, Angelika Mechtel, Otto Modersohn, Berthe Morisot, Pablo Neruda, Helga M. Novak, Leonie Ossowski, Sylvia Plath, Sergeij Prokofjew, Odilon Redon, Ruth Rehmann, Hans Reichel, Jean Renoir, Gilles Rozier, SAID, Charlotte Salomon, George Sand, Nathalie Sarraute, Willibald Sauerländer, Ina Seidel, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Horst Schlötelburg, Arnold Schönberg, Jutta Schutting, Tatlin , Giuseppe Ungaretti, Keto von Waberer, Malika Wagner, Fritz Zorn, Annemarie Zornack etc.

Literary film satires (BR)

• Read live
• Goethe, Above all tops ...
• Arno Schmidt, Zettel's dream
• Literary westerns

Picture stories for children

• White owl and blue mouse , based on a story by Jean Joubert, with Friederike Kammer. 30 min BR 1988
• The bear pit , based on a story by Jörg Steiner, with Felix von Manteuffel, 30 min., BR 1989
• Blue boy , based on a story by Jean Joubert, with Michael Harless, 30 min, BR 1991

The California of poetry

A 14-part series of film essays by Vera Botterbusch on literature in Munich's Gasteig January to May 1995

Televisions or my home is the imagination

A 15-part series with films by Vera Botterbusch in the Scharfrichterkino in Passau June / July 2012

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2010 The White Shadow , Galerie Henseler, Munich
2011 Elementar-Zauber , Preview, Gasteig Munich, Foyer Philharmonie
2011/12 Elementar-Zauber , Gasteig Munich, Foyer Small Concert Hall
2012 Parksonate , Gallery in the Palace Pavilion , Ismaning
2012 Resonances , Photographic Expeditions
2012 Light , Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich
2012 Résonances , La Capitale Galerie, Paris
2013/14 Asleep a song in all things , photo poetry, Romantic House, Jena
2014 Larghetto , photo poetry, Otto Gallery, Munich
2014 The world is a market , photographs from Abeokuta and Isara / Nigeria, EineWeltHaus, Munich
2014 Views and Secrets , photographs from Abeokuta and Xsara, Aké Arts and Book Festival , Abeokuta, Nigeria
2014/15 The world is a market , photographs from Abeokuta and Isara / Nigeria, State Library, Passau
2014 / 15 The world is a market , photographs from Abeokuta and Isara / Nigeria Gethsemane Church, Munich
2014/15 Views and Secrets / The world is a market , photographs from Abeokuta and Isara, German Consulate General, Lagos / Nigeria
2015 And all the pictures always looked at , Weytterturm, Straubing
2015 Air , Galerie im Schlosspavillon, Ismaning
2015 Moments , Üblacker-Häusl, Munich
2016 Air , La Capitale Galerie, Paris
2017 And the world is lifting singing , Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg
2017 At the other end of the story , Paris - a reminder, DGB-Haus, Munich
2017 Chiffren und Chimerären , Stadtmuseum Weilheim
2018 At the other end of the story , Paris - a reminder, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Tutzing

Participation in exhibitions

2008 Salon der Freunde, Mohr Villa, Munich
2015 OBACHT! Kultur-im-quartier, Munich
2016 FREEDOM EQUAL FRIENDLINESS, Art Pavilion, Munich
2016 unwelcome @ eu, DGB-Haus, Munich
2016 Three colors: red, art space fabrics, fabrics
2016 FOREIGN ROOMS, Galerie des Markt, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
2016 Aktuell 2016, Kunstpavillon, Munich
2016 First one, then two ..., BBK member
exhibition , Munich 2017 unwelcome @ eu, Kultur am Spreeport, verdi federal administration, Berlin
2017 My home Europe, Kunstpavillon, Munich
2017 Live like a tree, individual and free, cultural model, Passau
2017 annual exhibition of the Kunstverein Passau, Passau
2017 annual exhibition of the VBK, art pavilion, Munich
2017 Then three, then four ..., BBK member exhibition , Munich
2018 Red is a very special color, VBK, art pavilion, Munich

Public purchases

2012 Gasteig, Munich
2014 Gethsemane Church, Munich

Web links

• Literature by and about Vera Botterbusch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Vera Botterbusch
• Vera Botterbusch in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Vera Botterbusch's blog