Ulrike Ottinger - Chronology

Ulrike Ottinger Chronology

2008	Radio Play: *Magnus Hirschfeld. Abfahrt ohne Ankunft* hr Frankfurt Group exhibitions: Just different! Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, June 13 - September 21 Sex burns. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science and the Book Burning. Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin. May 7 - September 14 Opera: *Hommage à Klaus Nomi - a songplay in nine fits* by Olga Neuwirth Production and stage. Premiere: 7th March 2008, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
2007	Film retrospective: Kino Arsenal, Berlin. October 14 to December 2 Exhibition: ULRIKE OTTINGER Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, Sept.13 - Dec. 2 Group exhibitions: Berlin Noir, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York: Ester WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. July 4 - July, 16, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin BALANCE - Kunst in Heiligendamm, 2. Juni bis 8. Juli 2007, Bad Doberan Film: Prater, 35 mm, color, 104 min., premiere: 10th february 2007, Festivals 2007: Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin; Mar del Plata; Barcelona; Jerusalem; Era New Horizons, Polen; Melbourne; Tbilisi; MomA New York and others Preis der deutschen Filmkritik: best documentary 2007
2006	Film projects: Prater documentary Diamond Dance feature film in New York Film and Radio Play: Exile Shanghai, ZKM - ARD Hörspieltage, November 10, 2006, Zentrum für Medientechnologie Karlsruhe Film: The Enchaintment of the Blue Sailors, Ludwig Museum Köln, October 12, 2006 Film: Ticket of No Return - Aller Jamais Retour, Viennale, Carte Blanche by Elfriede Jelinek, October 20, 2006 Award: Kunstpreis Konstanz 2006, Kulturzentrum am Münster, September 24, 2006 Exhibition: Vis à Vis, Konstanzer Kunstverein, September 24 to November 26, 2006 Film: Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 1 and September 2, 2006 Participation at the exhibition: Arme Schweine, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, August 27 to November 11, 2006 Participation at the exhibition: Passaggi a Sud Est. Sguardi di artiste tra storie, memorie, attraversamenti. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Massari, Ferrara, Italia, March 19 to May 14, 2006 Retrospective: Cinémathèque Bruxelles, March 25 and 26, 2006 Screening: Ticket of No Return at Tate Modern
2005	Book launch and film retrospective: Kunsthalle Wien in cooperation with Filmcasino Arsenal in cooperation with Filmmuseum Berlin Book launch: Museum für Fotografie in cooperation with Buchhandlung König – Taschen, Berlin Exhibitions: *Imagen de Archivo. Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castellón* , Spain *Teatro del Mundo* . Museo de la Pasión, Valladolid *En Face. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim Exhibition and film retrospective: Totem. Photographs and Objects.* Salzburger Kunstverein and Das Kino, Salzburg Monograph: *Ulrike Ottinger. Image Archive. Photographs 1970 – 2005. Kunsthalle Wien, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Witte de With* (ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, November 2005
2004	Film: *Twelve Chairs. 35 mm, colour, 198 min., premiere: 8th February, 2004, Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Festivals 2004 ff.: Barcelona, Jerusalem, Kiev, The Museum of Modern Art,* New York (“Premieres”), Mar del Plata, and others Film retrospectives: Museo Reina Sofia, Centro de Arte , Madrid (catalogue) Tate Modern, London Museet for Samtidskunst Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo Maski Filmtheater, Odessa 50th Robert Flaherty Seminar, New York Cinémathèque Ontario, Toronto Exhibitions: *Ulrike Ottinger Bild Archive. Witte de With. Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Faces, Found Objects, and Rough Riders. ArtPace, San Antonio/Texas Group exhibition: Experiments with Truth. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (catalogue) 3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Berlin (catalogue) Sieben Todsünden. Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck Exhibitions and film retrospectives: Museum for Foreign Art* and Cinema Riga in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute, Riga Artist in residence: ArtPace, Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio/Texas
2003	Exhibition: *Southeast Passage. The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, USA Group exhibition: Grotesk! 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt* and Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue) fast forward. Media Art Sammlung Goetz, film program, ZKM Karlsruhe (catalogue) Text: *Zwei deutsche Patriarchen in Paris. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Ein Melancholiker des Films*. Hans Helmut Prinzler (Ed.), Bertz Verlag, Berlin
2002	Film: *Southeast Passage. Digital Betacam/DVD, colour and b/w, 363 min., premiere: 6th June, 2002, Documenta 11, Kassel Festivals 2002 ff.: Berlin, Rotterdam, Jerusalem, Barcelona, and others The Specimen. Digital Betacam/DVD, b/w, 18:26 min., premiere: 6th June 2002, Documenta 11, Kassel Ester. Digital Betacam/DVD, b/w and colour, 31:30 min., premiere: 12th November, 2002, Arsenal, Berlin Group exhibition: Documenta 11, Kassel Hautnah* . Die Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich Exhibition and film retrospective: *Stills* . Goethe-Institute, Barcelona in cooperation with Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones
2001	Opera: Effi Briest by Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring. Stage design and production. Premiere: 9th March, 2001, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (theatre program) Film retrospective: Febiofest , Prague Exhibition and film retrospective: *Sessions* . Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin (catalogue) *bild-archive* . Kunst-Werke, Berlin (catalogue) in cooperation with Filmkunsthaus Babylon and Arsenal, Berlin Texte (a selection): *Gespräch Ulrike Ottinger mit Andrea Dornseif. In: Jobs für Filmfreaks: Regie, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt on the Main/New York Parallel-Texte. In: Bonn Opera (Ed.), Effi Briest, Bonn 2000/2001 (theatre program) Stationenkino. In: Kunst-Werke (Ed.), Bildarchive*, Berlin, 2001 (KW magazine)
2000	Exhibition and film retrospective: *Berlin. City in Transition. Cinémathèque Ontario* and Goethe-Institute, Toronto Exhibitions: *Stills* . David Zwirner Gallery, New York *Taiga* . Goethe-Institute, New York Film retrospective: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Prague, and others Theatre: Das Lebewohl by Elfriede Jelinek. Production and stage design. premiere: 9th December, 2000, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin (theatre program) Texts (a selection): *Peter Lorre: Der Verlorene. Schweigen als dauerhafte und zuverlässige Abmachung. In: 15 by 15. The European Film Heritage. Brussels Ost-Süd-Ost im Minibus. Auf Reisen quer durch Osteuropa oder Wenn die Straße zum Marktplatz wird. In: taz, die tageszeitung, Berlin 12th October, 2000 Die Globalisierung ist ein Basar. In: taz, die tageszeitung*, Berlin 21st December, 2000
1999	Theatre: Das Verlobungsfest im Feenreiche by Johann Nestroy. Production and stage design. premiere: 25th September, 1999, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (theatre program) Text: *Die Hochzeit von Nestroy and Kabuki. In: Steirischer Herbst, (Ed.), Das Verlobungsfest im Feenreiche*, Graz (theatre program) Film retrospective: Oslo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and others
1997	Film: *Exile Shanghai. 16mm, colour, 275 min., premiere: 18th February 1997, Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Festivals 1997 ff.: Munich, Jerusalem, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, and others Film retrospective: Stuttgart, Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, and others Radio Play: Exile Shanghai. An Audio Montage in Six Parts. SWF Baden-Baden, SFB Berlin* Group exhibition: Leben im Wartesaal. Exil in Shanghai. Jüdisches Museum, Berlin (catalogue) Lecture and slide projection: 100 Tage – 100 Gäste, Documenta X, Kassel
1995	Monograph: *Ulrike Ottinger. Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (Ed.), Berlin 1995. 2nd edition, February 2001 Text: Korrespondenzen. In: Kino & Movie & Cinema*. Berlin Film retrospective 1995 ff.: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Brussels, Graz, Vienna, and others
1993	Book: *Taiga. Eine Reise ins nördliche Land der Mongolen. Edition Nishen, Berlin Exhibition: Taiga. Völkerkundemuseum Zurich; further stations: Filmmuseum Düsseldorf, Reissmuseum Mannheim* Radio Play: *Taiga. Erzählungen aus dem nördlichen Land der Mongolen. SWF Baden-Baden, BR Munich, SFB Berlin*
1992	Film: *Taiga. 16 mm, colour, 501 min., premiere: 21st February, 1992, Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Festivals 1992 ff.: London, Toronto, Montreal, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Sydney, and others Regents Lecture* and retrospective at the University of Santa Barbara, California
1991	Exhibition and film retrospective 1991 ff.: In cooperation with festivals, museums, universities, cinemas and the Goethe-Institutes in the USA and Canada: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, and others Film retrospective: Palais de Tokyo in cooperation with Le Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris; Festival Internacional de Cine, Madrid; Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Cinémathèque Bruxelles, Brussels Text: *Bon voyage Delphine. In: Kameradschaft – Querelle. Kino zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich*. Munich
1990	Film: *Countdown. 16 mm, colour, 188 min., premiere: 20th February, 1990, Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Festivals 1990 ff.: Paris, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Jerusalem, and others Text: Les Enfants du Paradis. Un spectacle pour ceux qui n’ont pas les yeux dans leurs poches. In: Das Jahr 1945 im Film. Filme aus 15 Ländern. 40. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin Exhibition and film retrospective: Anthology Film Archive, New York Feminale* , Cologne Film retrospective: 14th International Hong Kong Film Festival Festival d’Automne, Paris
1989	Film: *Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia. 35 mm, colour, 165 min., premiere: 14th February, 1989, German contribution to the competition at the 30th Berlin International Film* Festival, Berlin Festivals 1989 ff.: Montreal, London, Cannes, Créteil/Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Jerusalem, and others Prizes: Bundesfilmpreis/Filmband in Gold für Visuelle Gestaltung (Golden Prize for Visual Production), Prize of the Jury of the Audience, Montreal, 1989; Outstanding Film of the Year, London 1989 Group exhibition: Die Mongolen. Photographs. Römer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
1988	Text: *Der Zwang zum Genrekino. (Lecture, 1983). In: Hans Helmut Prinzler/Eric Rentschler (Eds.), Augenzeugen. 100 Texte neuer deutscher Filmemacher. Frankfurt on the Main Exhibition and film retrospective: Maskeraden* . Installation and photographs. Wessenberghaus, City of Konstanz in cooperation with the Kunstverein and the Kommunales Kino Konstanz (catalogue) Group exhibition: Die Mongolen. Photographs. Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
1987	Film: *Usinimage. 35 mm, colour, 10 min., premiere: 12th June, 1987, Low Budget Filmforum, Hamburg Festivals 1987 ff.: Berlin, Oberhausen, Amsterdam, New York, Jerusalem, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Brunswick, New Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Vienna, Salzburg, and others Prize: Short Film Prize, HDF Hauptverband deutscher Filmtheater 1987 Group exhibitions: Camera Austria. Photographs. Steirischer Herbst, Graz Europa Totem. Installation for the exhibition Van Totem tot Lifestyle, Museum van de Tropen, Amsterdam (catalogue); further stations: Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Berlin (catalogue) On Eating and Drinking, Representations in Contemporary Art* . Photographs. Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal (catalogue) Group exhibition and film retrospective: Exotische Welten – Europäische Phantasien. Objects and photographs. Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (catalogue) Berlin, Berlin – Die Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Stadt [Berlin, Berlin – The Exhibition on the History of the City]. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
1986	Film: *Superbia – The Pride. 35 mm, colour, 15 min., premiere: 32nd Westdeutsche Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen* Festivals 1986 ff.: Berlin, Figueira da Foz, Montreal, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Lucerne, Hamburg, Dortmund, and others Exhibition: *China. The Arts – The People. Akademie der Künste, Berlin; further stations: Paris, Montreal, New York Exhibition and film retrospective: Le Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir* in cooperation with Cinéma Olympic Entrepôt, Paris (under the auspices of Delphine Seyrig) Theatre: Begierde und Fahrerlaubnis by Elfriede Jelinek. Production and stage design. Steirischer Herbst, Graz; further stations: Berlin, Hamburg, Giessen, Basel
1985	Film: *China. The Arts – The People. 16 mm, colour, 270 min., premiere: 17th International Documentary Film Festival, Nyon Prize: German Film Critics’ Award, 1986 Festivals 1985 ff.: Berlin, Montreal, Créteil, Figueira da Foz, Paris, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, and others Publication: Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press. (Photographs and excerpts from the shooting script). In: G.J. Lischka (Ed.), Alles und noch viel mehr. Das poetische ABC*. Benteli Verlag, Bern
1984	Film: *Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press. 35 mm, colour, 150 min., premiere: 18th February 1984, Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Prizes: Special Jury’s Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievment, Florence 1984, Audience Award, Festival* Sceaux/Paris, 1984 Festivals 1984 ff.: Edinburgh, San Francisco, Chicago, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Montreal, Toronto, Tokyo, New Delhi and others Film retrospective: Poland 1984: Warsaw and Krakow *Interview Ulrike Ottinger with Sissi Tax. In: Frauen Macht*, Konkursbuch 12, Tübingen, 1984
1983	Theatre: Clara S. by Elfriede Jelinek. Production and stage design. Premiere: 3rd May, 1983, Württembergisches Staatstheater, Stuttgart Theatre festivals: Munich and Avignon Film retrospective: Theatre Festival Avignon in connection with the theatre production, Clara S. Text: *Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press. (Excerpts of shooting script). In: Mona Winter (Ed.), Zitronenblau. Frauenoffensive, Munich, 1983 Dans la cité des monstres. In: Berlin, le ciel partagé*. Autrement, Série Monde, Paris
1982	Film retrospective: Cinémathèque Française, Paris
1981	Film: *Freak Orlando. 35 mm, colour, 126 min., premiere: 1st November, 1981, 15th Hofer Filmtage* Prize: Audience Award, Festival Sceaux/Paris 1983 Festivals 1981 ff.: Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Bologna, Bordeaux, Montreal, Cannes, Figueira da Foz, Chicago, Minneapolis, Valence, Tokyo, Mannheim, and others Exhibition: *Freak Orlando – Eine künstlerische Gesamtkomposition. Installation and photographs. DAAD-Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Book: Freak Orlando – Small Theater of the World in Five Episodes* . Facsimile of the shooting script and photographs. Medusa Verlag, Berlin
1980	Exhibition and film retrospective: Aperto 80 Biennale di Venezia , Venice Cinémathèque Française, Paris First New York film retrospective: Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleecker Street Studios Book: *Madame X – An Absolute Ruler*. Facsimile of the shooting script. Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, Frankfurt on the Main
1979	Film: *Ticket of No Return. Aller – Jamais Retour. 35 mm, colour, 107 min., premiere: 27th October, 1979, 13th Hofer Filmtage* Prize: Audience Award, Festival Sceaux/Paris 1980 Festivals 1979 ff.: Berlin, Edinburgh, Semaine de la Critique/Cannes, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Delhi, and others Exhibition participation and film retrospective: Masculin – Feminin. Künstlerhaus and Neue Galerie, Graz
1978	Exhibition: *Hommage an Valeska Gert. Photographs by Ulrike Ottinger/Herbert Tobias, Arsenal*, Berlin
1977	Film: *Madame X – An Absolute Ruler. 16 mm, colour, 141 min., premiere: Steirischer Herbst, Graz Festivals 1977 ff.: Berlin, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Locarno, New Delhi, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Aperto 80 Biennale di Venezia*, and others
1975	Film: *The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors. 16 mm, colour, 50 min., premiere: 25th October, 1975, Bali-Kino, Berlin Festivals 1975 ff.: Berlin, Hof, Brussels, Rotterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Aperto 80 Biennale di Venezia*, and others
1972–73	Film: *Laokoon & Sons. The Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio. 16 mm, b/w, 50 min., premiere: 27 March, 1975, Arsenal, Berlin Festivals 1973 ff.: Brussels, Rotterdam, Aperto 80 Biennale di Venezia, and others Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell. Documentation of a “happening”. 16 mm, b/w, 12 min., December 1973, Akademie der Künste*, Berlin Festivals 1973 ff.: Venice, New York, San Francisco, Graz, Salzburg, and others
1969–72	Formation and direction of the film club Visuell and of galeriepress, a gallery and edition in Konstanz: exhibitions by Wolf Vostell, R.B. Kitaj, David Hockney, Joe Tilson, and others
1962–68	Work as a freelance artist in Paris Exhibitions at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Salon d’Automne, Galerie Seder, Paris and others Graphic work at the Atelier Friedländer Attending lectures at the Sorbonne on art history, religious studies and cultural anthropology with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu Friendship with Walter Mehring, Fritz Picard and Claire Goll *Die Mongolische Doppelschublade*. First film script