ULRIKE OTTINGER News – Autumn 2025

After a year of intensive work in Vienna, the new ULRIKE OTTINGER feature film Die Blutgräfin (The Blood Countess) starring Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Thomas Schubert, Lars Eidinger, Burkhard Klaußner, Tom Neuwirth, André Jung, Marco Lorenzini, and many others is now in post-production, and we are looking forward to its premiere next year. On October 22, Ulrike Ottinger will talk about the film at the Confucius Institute of the Free University of Berlin after the screening of Exil Shanghai. Two retrospectives in the USA, at the Museum of Motion Picture in Los Angeles and at the Metrograph in New York, followed by film discussions, will take place at the end of September/beginning of October. Immediately afterwards, on October 9, the solo exhibition EuropaZelt – Eine Ausstellung von Ulrike Ottinger (EuropaZelt – An Exhibition by Ulrike Ottinger) will open, which will be shown together with film screenings at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Further film screenings and discussions will take place at the Sinematek in Istanbul and the Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB) in Barcelona. The CCCB, in collaboration with La Mostra de Films de Dones de Barcelona, is curating the next edition of Manifestos Fílmics Feministes. Three directors discuss their Orlando films: Ulrike Ottinger – Freak Orlando (1981), Sally Potter – Orlando (1992), and Paul B. Preciado – Orlando. My Political Biography (2023). At the same time, the research campus at the Ethnological Museum Dahlem is hosting the film series Shared Histories – Collaboration in Ethnographical Film, curated by Louise von Plessen and Dr. Regina Knapp, in which Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia will be shown in the presence of Shurenhuar, who plays the Mongolian princess Ulun Igar. The Arsenal program also includes films by Ulrike Ottinger, not only in Berlin, but also in Nuremberg and Hamburg this fall.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Ted Mann Theater 
„Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema Artist, Cinema Rebel”

Thu, Sep 25^th
7:30pm – Bildnis einer Trinkerin / Ticket of No Return
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger 

Sat, Sep 27^th
7:30pm – Freak Orlando
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger 

Sun, Sep 28^th
6:30pm – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse / Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press 
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger 

Mon, Sep 29^th
7:30pm – Paris Calligrammes
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger 

Metrograph, New York City
7 Ludlow Street
“Ulrike Ottinger: From Paris to Berlin”

Fri, Oct 3^rd
7:25pm –  Paris Calligrammes
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger
moderated by Michael M. Bilandic

Sat, Oct 4^th
5:15pm – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse / Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger
moderated by Beatrice Loayza

Sat, Oct 4^th
8:40pm – Bildnis einer Trinkerin / Ticket of No Return
Intro by Ulrike Ottinger 

Sun, Oct 5^th
7:15pm – Freak Orlando

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München
Max-Joseph-Platz 3
” EuropaZelt – Eine Ausstellung von Ulrike Ottinger”

Ausstellung vom 10.10. bis 22.11.2025 
Thu, Oct 9^th
7:00pm – Ausstellungseröffnung / Opening
In the presence of Ulrike Ottinger

Fri, Oct 10^th
6:00pm – Zwölf Stühle / Twelve Chairs
Film Talk with Ulrike Ottinger

Tue, Oct 14^th
6:00pm – Paris Calligrammes 

Wed, Oct 22^th
6:00pm – Unter Schnee / Under Snow

Wed, Oct 30^th
6:00pm – Bildnis einer Trinkerin / Ticket of No Return

Sat, Nov 12^th
6:00pm – Freak Orlando

Wed, Nov 20^th
6:00pm – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse / Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

Sinematek, Istanbul
Hasircibasi Cad. Hasirci Sok. No:16, Kadikoy
Sinematek Istanbul

Fri, Oct 24^th
8:00pm – Sinematek’s Fall Programme Opening Ceremony
In the presence of Ulrike Ottinger 

Sat, Oct. 25^th
2:00pm – Freak Orlando
Film Talk with Ulrike Ottinger

Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia
1st Screening: Nov 16^th, 2025
2nd Screening: Dec 21^st, 2025
3rd Screening: Jan 11^th, 2026 

Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse / Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
1st Screening: Nov 9^th, 2025
2nd Screening: Dec 7^th, 2025
3rd Screening: Jan 3^rd, 2026 

Paris Calligrammes
1st Screening: Nov 21^st, 2025
2nd Screening: Dec 23^rd, 2025
3rd Screening: Jan 10^th, 2026

Freak Orlando
1st Screening: Oct 25^th, 2025
2nd Screening: Nov 19^th, 2025
3rd Screening: Dec 10^th, 2025 

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Montalegre, 5 
Manifestos Fílmics Feministes, a program in collaboration
with La Mostra de Films de Dones de Barcelona

Sun, Nov 30^th
6:30pm – Freak Orlando
Q & A with Ulrike Ottinger 

Mon, Dec 1^st
6:00 pm – Round table with Paul B. Preciado, Sally Potter and Ulrike Ottinger

Konfuzius Institut der Freien Universität, Berlin
Goßlerstr. 2-4
Konfuzius Institut

Mon, Sep 22^nd
3:30pm – Exil Shanghai / Exile Shanghai
Intro by Prof. Dr. Leutner
Q&A with Ulrike Ottinger

Forschungscampus Dahlem, Berlin
Ethnologisches Museum, Lansstraße 8 
“Shared Histories – Collaboration in Ethnographic Film”
Veranstaltung vom 25. – 28.09.2025

Sun, Sep 28^th
5:00pm – Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia / Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Intro by Shurenhuar

Filmhaus Nürnberg
Königstraße 93
“Magical History Tour: Cin cin!”

Sun, Sep 21^th
8:00pm – Unter Schnee / Under Snow
Arsenal – Magical History Tour: Cin cin!
Intro by Milena Gregor 

b-movie, Hamburg
Brigittenstraße 5 
“Verfilmte Stadt: Berlin”

Sun, Sep 21^th
6:30pm – Countdown
Arsenal – Verfilmte Stadt: Berlin
Intro by Milena Gregor

Klick Kino, Berlin
Windscheidstraße 19

Fri, Oct 17^th
8:00 pm – Bildnis einer Trinkerin / Ticket of No Return
Arsenal – Verfilmte Stadt: Berlin
Film Talk with Ulrike Ottinger
moderated by Milena Gregor