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Die Böhms – Architektur einer Familie

Maurizius Stärkle Drux‘s documentary about Germany’s most famous dynasty of architects, portrays the Böhm family’s conflicted yet creative personal and working relationships.

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An elderly man on a ferris wheel looks at Cologne's skyline with delight. "Great!" he exclaims and adds, "that is the Arena by Peter back there. It's really beautiful. The mosque by Paul is probably behind it. That's quite something." It is Gottfried Böhm (*1920) doing the talking. He joined his father's renowned architecture firm after the Second World War and is today one of Germany's most successful architects. In 1986 he won the Pritzker Award, the highest honor for an architect, and the only German architect to receive the prize. A film clip shows him giving his acceptance speech in his bad English. Böhm recalls that his wife had to leave the room because she couldn't bear to hear him. This proves to be the film's leitmotif: The Böhm family, with its successful patriarch and his three children Peter, Paul and Stefan, who all followed in their father's footsteps, is all but free of tension. Elisabeth, Gottfried's wife who died during the film's shooting, also trained as an architect but put her husband's career first. The sons and their father intensely discuss each other's drafts and ideas. Peter describes the family's dynamic as "competitive" and Paul speaks of failed invitation bids and "panic-ridden nights." Money always plays a role. But that isn't all. The Böhm's are interested in leaving something behind, to build for eternity. And in this way Raphael Beinder's camera celebrates the churches, museums, and municipal buildings designed by the family revealing both the architecture they will leave behind but also the architecture of a family.

Christoph Selzer

Credits

Deutschland/Schweiz 2014, 87 min
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Director: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux
Author: Maurizius Staerkle Drux
Distributor: Real Fiction
FSK: oA
Release: 29.01.2015

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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