Films by Michael Teutsch

2022, 90 min
by Michael Teutsch

My father Rudolf Teutsch was an early member of the NSDAP, later a soldier and in the Waffen SS. After he never wanted to talk to me about this past, 40 years ago his second wife gave me information about his life. In 2021, I re-enacted this conversation with an actress in a reading and confronted it with the statements of six Jews from France, Germany and Israel about their life stories, which they confided in me.

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Michael Teutsch

"All because of Granny" deals with the friendship of my Berlin family to a Scottish family which lasts for more than sixty years now.In 1955 my grandma invited a Scottish soldier for X-Mas dinner and he liked our family very much and came to visit my grandmas´ home very often. I felt like having a big brother coming out of the blue.After Alec met this tall, blond German girl Heidi, a nurse trainee, and both married, got three children and immigrated to Australia. When our families first met, it

Germany 2013, 87 min
by Michael Teutsch

Café Ta'amon, King-George-Street, Jerusalem Golda Meir drank coffee here and so did Shimon Peres. The Ta'amon is one of the oldest cafés in Jerusalem and it is world famous. It has been a meeting place for radical Leftist-political-activists, artists, politicians and the literati. Israel and its political development have been fervidly debated here – in the past as well as today. The café is history in a microcosm. Established in 1936, a Jewish family took it over again in the 60s. Together with

Germany 2009
by Wolfgang Scholz (KottwitzKeller)

A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a worldof observation and being observed.In this portrait, Gerda Lepke speaks for the first time about the story of her life, of the difficulties of becoming an accepted artist. We accompany her in her studio and her home in Gera and Dresden.A documentary about the "Kafkaesque" life enclosed in her studio space and her mother's small house and garden, with insight into the difficulties of a female painter who grew up

Germany 2005
by Michael Teutsch

The pianist Alice Sommer is a hundred nine years of age and lives in London and is the eldest living pianist and eldest survivor of the holocaust. She experienced events of high importance of the last century:
World War First, The Inflation, World War Second, the Holocaust, the Liberation, Communism, Emigration, and the Construction of the State of Israel – life stations of a 20th century eyewitness and cosmopolite.
    The documentary film discovers what makes this little old lady