Jörg Buttgereit

About Jörg Buttgereit

Who is it?: Director, Actor, Writer
Birth Day: December 20, 1963
Birth Place:  Berlin, West Germany, West Germany
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Occupation: Film director, sceenwriter, producer
Years active: 1981–present
Notable work: Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Nekromantik 2, Schramm

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Jörg Buttgereit was born on December 20, 1963 in  Berlin, West Germany, West Germany, is Director, Actor, Writer. Jörg Buttgereit was born on December 20, 1963 in Berlin, West Germany. He is a director and actor, known for Schramm (1993), Der Todesking (1990) and Nekromantik (1987).
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Biography/Timeline

1977

Buttgereit has been experimenting with film since 1977. His first project was called Gags und Schwarzer Humor, a parody of TV commercials. Color Trip was created after his camera broke and the developers gave him back black, blank film. After scratching and washing the film, something blue, black and green came out of the projector. Klassenfahrt was a movie about his class in his last year at school. Stress was another version of Color Trip using another returned blank film. He claims his very first feature was called Interview with Frankenstein.

1980

The Exploding Sports Shoe (1980) was a two-minute film consisting of a Sports shoe exploding in slow-motion. It was shown on TV as part of a documentary about punk rock, the original title was 'The Most Beautiful Destruction'.

1987

He is best known for his 1987 film Nekromantik.

1999

In 1999, he directed an episode of the television series Lexx, after a six-year absence from the entertainment industry.

2012

In 2012, speaking at the Leeds International Film Festival, Buttgereit said that he was happy working in stage and television production and cited internet piracy as a Problem for low-budget filmmakers.

2013

Buttgereit's superhero character, Captain Berlin, was adapted into a comic book series in 2013. There is currently a comic book version of Nekromantik being made.

2015

In 2013, Buttgereit announced that he would be teaming up with fellow horror Directors Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski to work on an anthology film called German Angst, in which each Director would do one short. The film was released on May 7 2015.