11 Facts About Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger was born on 6 June 1942 and is a German filmmaker and photographer.

In 1959 Ulrike Ottinger began studying at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter.

Ulrike Ottinger's mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ulrich Ottinger, was a painter.

From 1962 to 1968, Ottinger worked as a freelance artist in Paris and studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender among other studies.

The films of Ulrike Ottinger have been said to "reject or parody the conventions of art cinema and search for new ways to construct visual pleasure, creating various spectator positions usually neglected or marginalized by cinematic address".

Ulrike Ottinger's films include strong elements of stylization and fantasy, as well as ethnographic explorations.

Ulrike Ottinger returned to West Germany in 1969 and, in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Konstanz, founded the film club "Visuell", which she directed until 1972.

Ulrike Ottinger developed her own bizarre surrealist film-style, which among other things, was marked by widespread abandonment of a linear plot and instead linger long in individual scenes, which in turn make uberstarke and extravagant costumes of the imagination mostly female cast artfully to own collages were designed.

Ulrike Ottinger directed and did stage design for Elfriede Jelinek's Clara S at the Wurttembergisches Staatstheater in Stuttgart in 1983, and did the same for Jelinek's Begierde und Fahrerlaubnis in Graz in 1986.

In 2003, Ulrike Ottinger was selected for a solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.

Ulrike Ottinger was to direct the horror-drama film Die Blutgrafin, based on the life of Elisabeth Bathory; however, the project has not been produced as of January 2015.