Olaf Möller

Taiteilija Anna Eriksson saavutti groteskilla esikoiselokuvallaan M sensaatiomaista menestystä kansainvälisillä elokuvafestivaaleilla vuonna 2018. Eriksson esittää elokuvassa roolihenkilöä M, joka on saanut inspiraationsa Marilyn Monroesta. Teos on omaperäinen tutkielma feminiinisen seksuaalisuuden ja kuoleman yhteydestä. Hyväksikäyttö, manipulointi ja raakuus ovat iso osa Anna Erikssonin teoksen sisältöä. M-kirja on itsenäinen, vaativa ja provosoiva taideteos. Se syventää M-elokuvan vahvoja teemoja ennennäkemättömien valokuvien ja elokuvaa analysoivien esseiden avulla. Tässä kirjassa Anna Eriksson liikkuu vahvasti ja ennakkoluulottomasti taiteen rajapinnalta toiselle ja avaa alitajuntaansa poikkeuksellisella tavalla. Artist Anna Eriksson stirred a sensation at international film festivals in 2018 with her grotesque cinematic debut, M. Eriksson herself plays the lead role, M, a figure inspired by Marilyn Monroe. The film is a highly original exploration into the linkage of death and female sexuality, foregrounding content related to abuse, manipulation and cruelty. This book is an independent, provocative work of art that takes a deeper look at the film's themes through a selection of previously unseen photographs and analytic essays. Eriksson boldly crosses genre boundaries, offering a unique and compelling glimpse into her subconscious imaginings.

Canadian-born filmmaker and photographer John Cook (1935-2001) was one the key figures in the "Austrian New Wave" of the 1970s. A maverick, Cook almost single-handedly introduced a type of freewheeling auteur cinema reminiscent of both Italian neorealism and the works of the French nouvelle vague. This volume offers a German-language section of essays, interviews, and an annotated filmography, and a brief autobiography by Cook in English.

Romuald Karmakar's work in the fields of fiction and documentary holds a unique place in European film. It also stands in clear opposition to the dominant ways of the German film industry - both aesthetically and in its head-on treatment of several sore spots in German history. Time and again the 45-year-old director has engaged with "impossible" characters and "borderline" subjects: mercenaries, a notorious Nazi speech, the terror of being in a relationship, an imprisoned serial killer, or what it means to truly experience electronic and techno music. The book presents Karmakar's work in its entirety for the first time. It includes a 130-page essay by Olaf Möller, several conversations with the artist, an annotated filmography, and selected writings by Romuald Karmakar, including a number of unproduced treatments.

Dominik Graf, an exception in the film/television business, is a man of many parts. This is precisely what makes him so fascinating. He is a genre filmmaker, who guilefully attained freedom from within the rigid confines of television, and wrote (German) TV history with his episodes of Der Fahnder and Tatort. His sole commercial hit in theatres, Die Katze, has developed into a veritable "generational text". He is an auteur filmmaker in the spirit of the nouvelle vague or New Hollywood, who made waves with such masterpieces as Spieler, Der Felsen, Die Freunde der Freunde, or Das Gelübde. He is also a wonderful writer on film – and a polemical commentator of recent German history. However, these parts cannot be separated so clearly, something which this book explains through an essay by Christoph Huber, an richly annotated filmography by Olaf Müller and an in-depth interview with Dominik Graf by both authors.

Born in a small town in Lower Austria, Michael Pilz has realized over 100 films since the 1960s. His breakthrough came with a veritable massif central of European documentary cinema: Heaven and Earth (1979-82), an epic work about the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna. Since then, he has been a "solitary man", crossing the borders between film forms just as easily as those between art, cinema, life. This richly illustrated book is the first monograph about Michael Pilz. It includes several essays dealing with his work, an extensive conversation, selected texts and film treatments written by him, and a complete annotated filmography.

In vielen Familien, Kindergärten, Schulen und Praxen sind die großen Handpuppen längst zu Hause. Oftmals kommen sie jedoch nur selten oder einseitig zum Einsatz, weil es an Basiswissen und Anregungen fehlt. So bleiben immense spielpädagogische Möglichkeiten ungenutzt. Hier setzt Olaf Möller an: Er zeigt auf, welche unterschiedlichen Rollen und Funktionen die Puppe übernehmen kann, und führt auf leicht verständliche Weise in die Spieltechnik ein. Er bietet eine Fülle von Beispielen für den pädagogisch motivierten Einsatz der Handpuppen, gibt wertvolle Tipps, wie die Puppen in Unterricht und Gruppenarbeit eingebracht werden können, und bietet Hilfestellungen für Spielstrategien in kniffligen Situationen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Spiel aus dem Stehgreif und der Fragestellung, wie das Spiel in Fluss kommt, Spaß macht und das Improvisieren leicht fällt. Dabei sind die Anregungen auf alle Arten von Puppen und Stofftieren übertragbar. Die lebendige und fröhliche Art, in der Möller schreibt, steckt an: Sie nimmt Hemmungen, inspiriert und weckt Lust, die Puppen sofort auszuprobieren!