Discovery journey: The forgotten master Bernhard Hoetger in the film!

In the Hamme Forum in Ritterhude, the film "Hoetger-Between the Worlds", a work by the director Gabriele Rose, will be shown on January 14th and 15th. The 90-minute film illuminates the life and work of the sculptor, painter and architect Bernhard Hoetger, who was part of the Paris avant-garde around 1900 and left traces in Worpswede and Bremen. Despite his significant contributions to art, Hoetger's name was forgotten.

The film deals with the years 1900 to 1938 and, among other things, addresses Hoetger's unsuccessful attempts to adapt to the National Socialists. These considered his art to degenerate, which ultimately led to a confiscation of his works. In addition to documentary content, re -played scenes are also shown, with experts having their say and giving interesting insights into Hoetger's life.

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The film screenings take place at 8:15 p.m. In parallel to the documentation, the political satire "What does the Lama want with the rifle?" of the director Pawo Choyning Dorji. This film takes place in Bhutan in the 2000s and deals with a young king who is planning the introduction of television, the Internet and a constitutional monarchy. The changes bring unrest into the country while a lama sends a monk to procure rifles for a ceremony. Critics are enthusiastic about the complex history and their thematic weight.

CV of Bernhard Hoetger

Bernhard Hoetger was born the son of a master tailor and blacksmith in Hörde. From 1888 to 1892 he completed a stonemason theory in Detmold and then spent years of hiking. Between 1895 and 1897 he was the technical manager in the workshop for church art by Franz Goldkuhle in Wiedenbrück, which he later referred to as his “Fron and slave years”. Hoetger studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and lived in Paris from 1900 to 1907, where it was influenced by artists such as Maillol and Rodin.

his return to Germany led him to the Darmstadt artist colony, where he was appointed professor in 1911. Hoetger created numerous important works, including monumental reliefs on the Mathildenhöhe and the Lower Saxony Stein monument for the victims of the First World War. He joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1934, but was later excluded. His art was confiscated in 1937 in the “degenerate art” campaign and many of his works were lost. After a short stay in Berlin, he fled to Switzerland in 1943, where he died in Unterseen in 1949. His grave is located in the Dortmund Eastern Cemetery.

For more information about the film and the life of Bernhard Hoetger, please visit wikipedia .