Ludwig Ott is a filmmaker through and through. Since 1975, following his training as a photographer and journalist, his films have told stories about traditions changing over time and portrayed people. His subjects are diverse and unusual: Romania after the fall of the communist regime, including Wölfe, Schafe und Legenden and Die Reise zum Zigeunerkönig; films from his home region in Bavaria, including Bis der Butz stirbt and Heimatwelten, zuerst stirbt die Sprache; and various mountain dramas such as Tod am Nanga Parbat.
The evening’s films
On 4 December, BAF will screen his multiple award-winning work Tod am Nanga Parbat and the Bavarian portrait Hinterhofwelten – zwischen Nürnberg und Fürth.
Tod am Nanga Parbat – Die Tragödie der Brüder Messner
In 1970, Günther, the brother of famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner, died on Nanga Parbat. The film traces the 1970 German expedition to Pakistan and attempts to explain the mysterious death through eyewitness accounts and historic footage. It is a story about the ambition and hubris of extreme mountaineering. (Broadcaster: WDR; camera: Gerhard Baur (1970), Lelischky)
Hinterhofwelten – zwischen Nürnberg und Fürth
Gostenhof and the Johannis district are old working-class and craftspeople’s quarters in Nuremberg. The Second World War had badly scarred the old town beneath the Imperial Castle. Workshops that had previously been based in central Nuremberg were destroyed and sought new premises in the southern city or in Gostenhof, beside the historic Nuremberg–Fürth railway line.
Only a few, such as the Lenz brass foundry in the Johannis district—a workshop with 200 years of history and full of exhibits—escaped entirely unharmed. Hinterhofwelten is a journey into lesser-known corners of Nuremberg and Fürth: a workshop for magic props, a doctor for old pianos, a theater and the young brewery run by the owners of Amischlitten.
A portrait of the other side of the Franconian cities of Nuremberg and Fürth, the film reveals worlds of life behind their familiar facades. (Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk; broadcaster: BR; camera: Herbert Lehner)
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