Directing • AGE 84
Ulrike Ottinger is an avant-garde, contemporary German artist. She is particularly well-known and successful as a filmmaker, painter and photographer.


The Blood Countess
Director
2026

Paris Calligrammes
Director of Photography
2020

Aloha
Director
2016

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
2016

Chamisso’s Shadow
Herself (voice)
2016

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake
Herself
2012

Under Snow
Director
2011

The Korean Wedding Chest
Narrator
2009

Still Moving
Director
2009

Seoul Women Happiness
Director
2008

Prater
Director
2007

Twelve Chairs
Director
2004

Ester
Director
2002

Southeast Passage
Writer
2002

The Specimen
Writer
2002

Exile Shanghai
Producer
1997

Taiga
Director
1992

Countdown
Director
1990

Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Director
1989

Superbia – The Pride
Writer
1988

Usinimage
Director
1987

Seven Women, Seven Sins
Director
1986

China. The Arts – The People
Director
1985

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Director
1984

Audience
Self
1983

Freak Orlando
Director
1981

Ticket of No Return
Narrator
1979

Cinématon
N°104
1978

Madame X – An Absolute Ruler
Orlando
1978

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Nymphe der deutschen Romantik
1975

Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio
Kakalia Katzen
1975

Berlin Fever
Director
1973