Jutta Brückner
| Jutta Brückner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 June 1941 Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, film producer |
| Years active | 1975-2005 |
Jutta Brückner (born 25 June 1941) 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. She lives in Berlin and was Professor for narrative film at Berlin University of the Arts. She was the head of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival 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. Although she won multiple prizes for her work she is not a popular director and mainly known for making difficult and often painful films. Most of her films are highly autobiographical 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. She uses her personal experience as a basis which she expanded to lager issues among women. Moreover, "she believes that film empowers women to display [the] psychic and physical disintegration [...] [and] sees film as nothing less than a recovery for women of the ability to look, to perceive."
Brückner was born during the Second World War and was raised in a lower-middle-class family. Her adolescence was affected by the postwar Germany, left in ruins. So she witnessed, like other women growing up in this period, the rebuilding of Germany including the unquestioning submission of their mothers to the restoration of the patriarchal structures. Because of being an intelligent pupil Brückner was able to go to university and studied political science, philosophy and history in Berlin, Paris and Munich. She granted a Ph.D. with Die deutsche Staatswissenschaft im 18. Jahrhundert in 1973. She did not study at a film school nor undergo an apprenticeship in film or has been an assistant. 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'", but it was not satisfying herself. In one of her articles she writes: "I began filmmaking as an autodidact after giving up writing, which I had worked at for some time. No matter what I wrote, it was never what I wanted to write. It was not a question of good or bad, nor of true or false, but rather that I never reached the center of my desire to write, the center from which legitimation must come."
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