NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS - Diary from West Berlin (includes autograph by Jörg Buttgereit)

368 pages, hardcover, bound, colour illustrations.

- FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY - WITH AUTOGRAPH BY JÖRG BUTTGEREIT

- DELIVERY WITH AUTOGRAPH FROM 9 June 2025 -

‘If I couldn't make my films, plays and radio plays, I would need a patient psychiatrist.’ - Jörg Buttgereit

In his richly illustrated memoir, Jörg Buttgereit, who grew up in the Walled City, recounts his socialisation with horror and monster films in the West Berlin district cinemas. In personal diary entries, he describes his first visits to rock concerts by supergroups such as Queen, Kiss and Led Zeppelin and vividly recounts how he grew into the subcultural music and art scene of West Berlin in the wake of the punk revolution. He takes us with him to wild concerts by The Clash, the Dead Kennedys and industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. At the same time, Jörg sees the early subversive midnight films of John Waters and David Lynch in the off-cinema scene, which inspire him to make his controversial underground classic NEKROMANTIK and ultimately make him a target of German censorship policy.

‘Jörg Buttgereit is, without exaggeration, a living legend. But when you ask about the genre in which Buttgereit wreaks his legendary havoc, things get more complicated. Not only is he active in film, theatre, radio plays, comics and film criticism, Buttgereit also likes to subvert the expectations commonly associated with genres and create his own. What his works have in common is an interest in the psychological abysses that society likes to repress, ostracize or fear.’ - Oliver Stangl, Ray Filmmagazi