Films by Volker Gehrke

2019, 52 min
by Udo Vieth

Roundabouts are enjoying increasing popularity among urban planners, but also artists. We embark on an entertaining tour of Europe and introduce artists who are exhibiting their work in the middle of traffic islands.What do giant kiwis, suspended taps and luminous rolls of paper have in common? They’re pieces of art on display in the centre of traffic roundabouts, that are attracting visitor numbers museums can only dream of! Roundabouts are becoming increasingly popular because they are safer,

2017, 90 min
by Margarete Kreuzer

Edgar Froese, band leader of Tangerine Dream and pioneer of electronic music, is on a lifelong mission to find the ultimate sound. His constant quest takes him and his fellow band members to worldwide success, all the way to the Hollywood studios in Los Angeles. At his death in January 2015, Edgar Froese leaves a legacy of 48 years of music history.The film shows previously unreleased footage shot by the band leader himself: For the first time, we see the band backstage, on tour in Europe and th

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Katja Duregger

Ella Fitzgerald’s voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had absolute pitch and perfect intonation. Ella’s voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless, and the odd moments in her nearly sixty-year career when she sang off-key were few and far between. There is almost no style of music in which she did not excel, and her numerous – now legendary – recordings of the ‘Great American Songbook’ with pieces by US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen,

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Arne Birkenstock

Germany 2011, 89 min
by Anja Dreschke

For several years anthropologist and filmmaker Anja Dreschke accompanied the Cologne Tribes, particular societies whose members imitate "foreign" and/or historic cultures notably Huns and Mongolians as a leisure time activity. Thus she realised an ethnographic long-term study providing a "thick description" of historical reenactment as an outstanding cultural phenomenon.Filmed over several years in the course of an ethnographic research TRIBES OF COLOGNE follows an association of about 80 clubs