Jutta Brückner

Jutta Brückner (born 25 June 1941 in Nazi Germany) is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed nine films between 1975 and 2005. Furthermore, she has written essays in film theory, film reviews and radio plays. and is a member of multiple Film Juries and advisory committees.

Brückner's involvement in the women's movement influenced her emotional, intellectual, political, her artistic development and her work at all. and have got a strong documentary style because of shooting them in 16mm. Furthermore, Brückner's first three films were shot in black and white. Instead of that she wanted to write. In the 1970s, influenced by the women's movement and the evocation of many women in this period to escape from the patriarchal structures to a different life, "[her] desire to write grew out of a longing for 'female subjectivity'",

Career Unlike other filmmakers of her generation Brückner is completely self-taught. The woman's personal repressions, anxieties, desires and deeply melancholy disappointment with life underline the ideology and acting of her small-town, rural class. The Hunger Years takes place between 1953 and 1956, the formative years of the West German Wirtschaftswunder and "portrays [three years of] an emotional starved adolescent, Ursula Scheuner, growing up in the 'golden Fifties' in the midst of plenty." Moreover, the film, again fictionalized autobiographic, "precisely maps the complex cultural landscape of [Brückner's] youth: the nation's denial of the Nazi past, its division into East and West, the cold war, anticommunism, sexual repression, and bulimic consumerism." Another formal play is the disruption of the narrative unity by documentary footage such as newsreels and photos from the period.

In the second phase of Brückner's career she experienced more with cinematic form in order to find her own film language after teaching herself how to make films by directing the previous three films. One Glance and Love Breaks Out tells separately seven stories of women and "the obsessive pursuit of love unmindful of the cost to these women themselves."

Filmography Director 1975: Tue recht und scheue niemand – Das Leben der Gerda Siepebrink (Do Right and Fear No-one) 1977: (A Thoroughly Demoralized Girl: A Day in the Life of Rita Rischak) 1980: (Hungerjahre) 1982: Laufen Lernen (Learning to Run) 1983: Luftwurzeln (Roots in the Air) 1984-1993: Kolossale Liebe (Colossal Love) 1986: Ein Blick – und die Liebe bricht aus (One Glance, and Love Breaks Out) 1992: Lieben Sie Brecht? (Do You Love Brecht?) 1998: Bertolt Brecht – Liebe, Revolution und andere gefährliche Sachen 2005:

Screenwriter 1976: Der Fangschuss (Coup de Grâce) (directed by Volker Schlöndorff) 1977: Eine Frau mit Verantwortung (A Woman with Responsibility) (Ula Stöckl - for TV)

Awards 1980: Critics Award at the German Critics Association Awards in Film in the category best feature for The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin International Film Festival for The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty Audience Prize at Créteil International Women's Film Festival for The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty

1982: Critics Award at the German Critics Association Awards in Film in the category best short film for Luftwurzeln

1983: Audience Prize at Créteil International Women's Film Festival for Laufen lernen FICC-Prize at Figueira da Foz - Festival Internacional de Cinema for Laufen lernen

1986/87: Critics Award at the German Critics Association Awards in Film in the category best feature for Ein Blick – und die Liebe bricht aus

1998: Grand Prize at Figueira da Foz - Festival Internacional de Cinema in documentary for Bertolt Brecht – Liebe, Revolution und andere gefährliche Sachen Press Prize at Figueira da Foz - Festival Internacional de Cinema for Bertolt Brecht – Liebe, Revolution und andere gefährliche Sachen

2007: Best male actor (Hilmar Thate) at Batumi International Art House Film Festival for Hitler Cantata Tribute for outstanding achievement in the art of film at Denver International Film Festival