New stageplay

Jörg Buttgereits new stageplay GREEN FRANKENSTEIN + SEXMONSTER!" is playing 2012 in Dortmund, Germany.

Watch a Trailer here!

German reviews.

Captain Berlin online comic

In cooperation with comic artist Martin Trafford I will present the online-comic CAPTAIN BERLIN VERSUS FUKUDA here on my g+ profile.

As soon as Martin has finished a new page we will publish it online.

Captain Berlin Shirt

Jörg Buttgereit has licensed the first official CAPTAIN BERLIN T-shirt to the German movie magazine DEADLINE. The limited shirt shows the classic comic cover art by Rainer F. Engel.

The CAPTAIN BERLIN shirt can be ordered online from September 2011 at deadline-magazin.de

NEKRO 2 - Limited 20th Anniversary Hardbox

NEKROMANTIK 2 will be released in a limited 20th Anniversary DVD hardbox in April 2011. The DVD is codefree and will play on DVD-players worldwide.
The film is uncut and has English, French, Spanish and Italian subtitles.

Extras:
Exclusive Bonus CD with "20th Anniversary Nekro 2 Filmconcert"
(recorded live in January 2011 in Berlin by actress Monika M. and friends), Fridgemagnet, a piece of original "Nekro 2" 16 mm filmstock, 32 page booklet, 2 audiocommentarys in English and German, The Making of "Nekromantik 2" (in English and German language), outtakes, slide show, trailers, 2 Musikclips by Buttgereit, videogame teaser "Game of Death", Buttgereit-homemovie: "New York / Paris" (1986) and much more.

The hardbox will be numbered and limited to 666 worldwide.

Dealers may contact Media Target distribution: <media.target@berlin.de>

OSAKA POPSTAR + KLAUS BEYER videoclip

Jörg Buttgereit has directed a new music clip called "Shaolin Affen". The song is a collaboration of the German outsider artist Klaus Beyer and the American all-star Punk Band OSAKA POPSTAR. Klaus is performing vocals covering the song he has translated from English ("Shaolin Monkeys") into German for his cover version: "Shaolin Affen". watch video

OSAKA POPSTAR is the pop-punk multimedia music and art project led by singer/producer John Cafiero. The Band consists of the groups' founder, frontman and producer John Cafiero with a revolving line-up of legendary special guests in the backing band, including members of the MISFITS, BLACK FLAG, RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS, THE RAMONES and more.

NEKRO 2 - 20th Anniversary Filmconcert

20 years ago, Buttgereits NEKROMANTIK 2 proved to be too much for the German authorities to tolerate. A movie theater premiering the film was raided by the police and the film was banned for several years until it was labled "art" by a German court.
On January 9 of 2011 Jörg Buttgereit will celebrate the 20th anniversary of NEKROMANTIK 2 at the famous stageplay venue Volksbühne in Berlin. Beautiful mainactress Monika M. and band will play a new interpretation of the original film score live on stage. Cast & crew of NEKRO 2 will be present...

Date: Januray 9, 2011, Showtime: 18:00 h
Location: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin

Buttgereit in Alicante/Spain

Jörg Buttgereit will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of NEKROMANTIK 2 at the Festival de cine Gore de Alicante in Spain on December 8/ 2010.

¡¡ COMIENZAN LAS NAVIDADES SANGRIENTAS 2010 !!
CAFE-TERROR presenta el "20 Aniversario de la película NEKROMANTIK 2". Proyección especial de la película con la presencia del director Alemán Jörg Buttgereit. Al terminar, habrá una charla-coloquio con el director, y ronda de preguntas del público.

MIERCOLES 8 de Diciembre, 17:30 h. - Lugar : Ocho y Medio asoc. Cultural (Plaza de Santa Teresa, 15-bajo - detrás del Panteón de Quijano)

 

More limited DVD-Hardbox editions

SCHRAMM - INTO THE MIND OF A SERIAL KILLER and HOT LOVE will be released by Media Target distribution in Berlin in limited edition grindhouse-hardboxes in December 2010. The DVDs have no region code and the films are uncut. SCHRAMM will be relased as a double disc with tons of extras including a soundtrack CD. Language is German or Spanish with English and Italian subtitles. The Super 8 short film collection HOT LOVE is in German language with optional English voiceover by Buttgereit.

The hardboxes will be numbered and limited to 222 (SCHRAMM) and 111 (HOT LOVE) pieces only.

MONSTERLAND on Halloween

The French/German TV channel "arte" announced that Jörg Buttgereits documentary film MONSTERLAND will be aired on Halloween 2010. In his doc Buttgereit meets with monster experts like John Carpenter, Rick Baker, Joe Dante, Kenpachiro Satsuma, H.R. Giger, Shinya Tsukamoto, Joe Coleman, Minoru Kawasaki and many others.

airdate: 31.10. 2010 (in Germany and France)

Buttgereit at LUFF

Jörg Buttgereit will be a member of the jury at the LAUSANNE UNDERGROUND FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL from 20th to 24th of October 2010. There will also be a small retro called "Nekrofilms: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit". more

Limited DVD-Hardbox editions

NEKROMANTIK and DER TODESKING will be released by Media Target distribution in Berlin in limited edition grindhouse-hardboxes in September 2010. The DVDs have no region code. The films are uncut and have English, French, Spanish and Italian subtitles.

The hardboxes will be numbered and limited to 333 (NEKROMANTIK) and 222 (TODESKING) pieces.

Buttgereit main guest on BUT 2010

Jörg Buttgereit will make an appearance on this year’s edition of the BUT film festival ( 8.-12. Sept. 2010) in the Netherlands. Fans of bizarre, experimental or otherwise distorting movies are served every year at the festival for B-movies, Undergoud and Trash films. Location is the city centre of Breda.
BUTFF aims to get a larger audience for artistic photo's, video's, film and modern digital media.
Buttgereit Interview from BUTFF

Buttgereit @ Nippon Connection Festival

Having started only last year, NIPPON CONNECTION Home Cinema has already attained cult status. Armed with a remote control, potato chips and beer, film director and Japanese film expert Jörg Buttgereit dissect one selected gem of Japanese trash film live in front of the silver screen.

Jörg will be accompanied by film director Thilo Gosejohann (who also helped him with “Captain Berlin Vs. Hitler” in 2009) to record the commentary track for an upcoming DVD edition of Kazui Nihonmatsu's classic "Uchu daikaijû girara" from 1967 (probably better known as "The X from Outer Space" ore “Big Space Monster Guilala”).

Date: 15th of April 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. The number of seats is limited.

ROUGH CUTS- BUTTGEREITS FILM LECTURES

Part 5: VIDEO NASTY – Live Radio Play Performance

In the series ROUGH CUTS director Jörg Buttgereit takes on icons of popular, historical or not so common film genres, in order to give them a particular spin in one-time actionist short productions.

In his splatter radio play VIDEO NASTY Buttgereit re-enacts a typical Italian horror film from the Eighties. His media transfer focuses on the video revolution from back then and the heyday of splatter-aesthetics with cannibal and zombie motives.

A mysterious stranger steals the hearts of corpses from a New York morgue. Police detective Jack Romero and anthropologist Andrea Spinell are assigned to what seem to be ritual mutilations. Their investigations lead them to a cannibalistic tribe of indigenous people on a tropical island in the Pacific, where mad Dr. Herbert Fulci wants to turn the natives into an army of weak-willed Zombies. The radio play will be presented as a live performance by famous dubbing artists.
17 March 2010 / 20.00 pm / HAU / Hallesches Ufer 32 / 10963 Berlin

INTO THE NIGHT

Jörg Buttgereit directed a new episode of the acclaimed series
INTO THE NIGHT for the French/German TV station arte.


INTO THE NIGHT WITH ODA JAUNE AND LARS EIDINGER follows the German actor Eidinger and Bulgarien painter Jaune to Sofia. They share thoughts about religion, sex and death. A real Buttgereit.

Airdate: 2nd of March 2010, 23:45 h, arte (in Germany and France)

CAPTAIN BERLIN VERSUS HITLER on DVD

 

Media Target distribution in Berlin released CAPTAIN BERLIN VERSUS HITLER on DVD with english subtitles.

The DVD has no area code and tons of Extras!

Special Features:
Audio Commentary by Jörg Buttgereit and Thilo Gosejohann, english audio Commentary by Mark Reeder, Captain Berlin Original Shorts: “Captain Berlin - Retter der Welt” and “Captain Berlin gegen Hyxar” with english subtitles, Backstage Report, World Premiere in Gelsenkirchen, Original Trailer, Trailers for Captain Cosmotic and Operation Dance Sensation, mini Comic-book OPERATION UNTERGANG and a dog-tag.

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ACTING JOB

Jörg Buttgereit has a small acting part as a cop in the horror movie MUST LOVE DEATH. The Fantasia film festival in Montreal held the world premiere which was quite a good fit. Offhand, it’s difficult to think of another film that features both a “meet cute” and a nail gun, but in his first feature, Andreas Schaap manages to unite the two. MLD, for better or worse, belongs to a genre of one: the torture porn romantic comedy. It also serves as an outsider’s view of American pop culture, being as it is directed and written by a German (with a mostly-German cast and crew). The film is shot in English.

NECRO-CAT 2009


The GROSSMANN Filmfestival in Slovenia is happy to announce that Jörg Buttgereit attended this year’s festival, where he received the award for special achievements in fantastic/horror cinematography.

Few authors have managed to convey to the silver screen such horrific, yet  at the same time captivating images as the Berlin director Jörg Buttgereit. Already his first effort NEKROMANTIK, that has earned him a rabid cult following in the underground horror scene of the eighties, baffled the censors and was prohibited in many countries, while the sequel was preferably to be obliterated from the face of the Earth. Despite these considerable difficulties, Buttgereit stayed true to his vision and became darker and more morbid with every film he made, he demanded more and more from his audience, but remained fresh and light-years away from the mainstream film-making scene.