Jörg Buttgereit

In 2013, Buttgereit announced that he would be teaming up with fellow horror directors Andreas Marschall (director) and Michal Kosakowski to work on an anthology film called German Angst, in which each director would do one short. The film was released on 7 May 2015. Buttgereit's superhero character, Captain Berlin, was adapted into a comic book series in 2013. There is also a comic book version of Nekromantik.

• Born — 20 December 1963 • Birthplace — West Berlin, West Germany • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter, producer • Notable Works — Nekromantik, Der Todesking, Nekromantik 2, Schramm • Years Active — 1981–present

Buttgereit was raised in West Berlin while the Berlin Wall was still standing and the Allied Forces – Britain, France and the United States – each controlled a section of West Berlin. Hence, young Buttgereit went to the movie theaters to watch films from the aforementioned countries, he particularly enjoyed watching monster movies from the age of four. His grandmother bought him packs of Creature Feature bubblegum cards while he was in kindergarten and for his first Holy communion he received a Super 8 camera. Buttgereit has been experimenting with film since 1977. His first project was called Gags und Schwarzer Humor, a parody of TV commercials. Color Trip was created after his camera broke and the developers gave him back black, blank film. After scratching and washing the film, something blue, black and green came out of the projector. Klassenfahrt was a movie about his class in his last year at school. Stress was another version of Color Trip using another returned blank film. He claims his very first feature was called Interview with Frankenstein. The Exploding Sports Shoe (1980) was a two-minute film consisting of a sport shoe exploding in slow-motion. It was shown on TV as part of a documentary about punk rock; the original title was The Most Beautiful Destruction. In 2012, speaking at the Leeds International Film Festival, Buttgereit said that he was happy working in stage and television production and cited internet piracy as a problem for low-budget filmmakers.

Jörg Buttgereit is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film director, film producer, screenwriter, playwright and actor.