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10/5/2012

Werner Schroeter

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The first comprehensive North American retrospective of German film, theater, and opera director Schroeter features 40 films and rare early experimental shorts. Making no distinction between kitsch and high art and inspired by the divas of silent-era cinema, he strove for an authenticity of feeling through extreme emotions, reaching a point, he said, of 'musical and gestural excess'.


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NEW YORK, April 12, 2012—The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Munich Film Museum and the Goethe-Institut New York, presents the first comprehensive North American retrospective of German film, theater, and opera director Werner Schroeter (1945-2010). Running May 11–June 11, 2012, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, Werner Schroeter includes 40 feature films and rare early experimental shorts, very few of which have had theatrical releases in the United States. This exhibition is organized by Stefan Droessler, Director, Munich Film Museum, and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Presented in association with the Goethe-Institut New York.

The full measure of Schroeter’s influence on his German contemporaries, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosa von Praunheim, and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, and on Daniel Schmid, Ulrike Ottinger, Wim Wenders, and Werner Herzog, has only begun to be fully appreciated. So too his direction of actors like Isabelle Huppert, Bulle Ogier, Candy Darling, and his muse and superstar Magdalena Montezuma, from whom he drew some of their greatest performances. Inspired, like Jack Smith, by the divas of silent-era cinema, Schroeter strove for an authenticity of feeling through extreme emotions, reaching a point, he said, of “musical and gestural excess.” He found this on the steps of an ancient Roman temple and on the streets of Manila, in a Pina Bausch dance piece, a fin-de-siècle Oscar Wilde tragedy, and a Verdi aria performed by Maria Callas. Making no distinction between kitsch and high art—travesty was for him a form of exaltation—he drew from a dazzling array of sources: Shakespeare and the Passion Play, German Romanticism and Italian neorealism, 19th-century opera and Arab pop, Jean Genet and Douglas Sirk, fashioning out of these a densely woven, ravishing, and often hallucinatory collage of images, songs, and fragmentary narratives organized around musical structures.

The exhibition opens on Friday, May 11 with Deux (Two) (2002), Schroeter’s quasi- autobiographical, surreal-expressionist memory play, which reunited him with Isabelle Huppert for the third time. It also includes the newly restored Eika Katappa (1969), a restlessly and at times raucously experimental collage of image and sound that forges elements from opera, theater, and cinema; Der Tod der Maria Malibran (The Death of Maria Malibran) (1972), which perpetuates the myth and mystique of a legendary nineteenth-century mezzo-soprano through a dreamlike series of Romantic tableaux; La Répétition générale (Dress Rehearsal) (1980), featuring dance and theater performances by Pina Bausch, Kazuo Ohno, and Reinhild Hoffmann; Der Rosenkönig (The Rose King) (1986), his voluptuous, homoerotic masterpiece, made in tribute to Magdalena Montezuma, who died shortly after the film’s production; and the U.S. premiere of Mondo Lux (2011), a documentary portrait of Schroeter by his longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch, featuring reminiscences by Rosa von Praunheim, Isabelle Huppert, Wim Wenders, and Maria Montezuma. Werner Schroeter also includes two programs dedicated to his rare early experimental shorts, as well as interviews between Schroeter and Alexander Kluge, a key figure in the New German Cinema.

SPONSORSHIP:
The exhibition is made possible by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

Image: Der Rosenkönig (The Rose King). 1986. West Germany/Portugal. Directed by Werner Schroeter. Image courtesy of Munich Film Museum. Pictured: Mostéfa Djadjam (left) and Antonio Orlando (right)

Press Contact:
Sarah Jarvis, (212) 708-9757, sarah_jarvis@moma.org

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