Biography

Jürgen Böttcher, also known as the painter “Strawalde”, was born in Germany in 1931. His first and only movie, Jahrgang '45 (Born in '45) about the GDR beatnik generation, could not be finished  in the GDR after having been censored. Having made more than 30 artistically provocative documentary films, he has attained cult status among filmmakers in Germany.