Lutz Dammbeck
Birthday: 1948-10-17
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Biography: Lutz Dammbeck was born in 1948 in Leipzig (East Germany). He studied graphic design. In the 1970s he started out as a painter and graphic designer while discovering animated film as a means of experimenting and expression. Until 1986 he produced his films in East Germany for production company DEFA. In 1986 he emigrated to West Germany in order to continue with his Herakles-project that was rejected by East German authorities. This project included films, installations, paintings and performances. It was pursued until 2002. Since the 1990ies Dammbeck turned his focus from animated shorts to documentaries about the art world.
Movies
REALFilm
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski...
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Overgames
On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur ...
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The Master Game
At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter ...
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The Net
Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely...
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From Stag Beetle to Swastika
From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possib...
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The Painter Came From a Foreign Land
In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to ...
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