Films by Martina Fluck

Germany 2023, 88 min
by Martina Fluck (YUCCA Filmproduktion)

The US-German artist W.H.D. Koerner created the first superhero comic "Hugo Hercules" in Chicago in 1902. Then he discovered his love for the Wild West, and became one of the master Western painters. To this day, his images shape the global visual memory of the so-called Wild West as they served as templates of the first Hollywood films. The image of the indigenous people conveyed in these films is meanwhile sharply criticized by them. Martina Fluck, together with the illustrator Tim Eckhorst, g

Germany 2019, 85 min
by Martina Fluck (YUCCA Filmproduktion)

Two brothers from North-Germany emigrated as children to the USA. At the end of the 19th century the young men went to New York to try their luck as cartoonists.Comic strips were extremely popular in the New York Sunday newspapers at that time to reach the poorer citizens – mostly immigrants. The anarchic cartoon 'The Katzenjammer Kids,' which lampoons the German immigrant milieu, made Rudolph Dirks famous. Rudolph's younger brother Gus Dirks is considered a pioneer of animal comics. Martina Flu

Germany 2017, 40 min
by Martina Fluck (YUCCA Filmproduktion)

The film documents the dramatic ascent of Ludwig Nissen, an emigrant from Husum Germany who reached the pinnacle of New York society in the late 19th century. Nissen was born December 2, 1855, the sixth of ten children, the son of a ropemaker. On August 28, 1872, 16-year-old Ludwig left his hometown and traveled on the steamer Westphalia from Hamburg to New York. On September 11, 1872 Nissen arrived at his new home. Portraits from the period show a confident young man who, despite his small-tow