Volker Koepp Movies

Biographical search for traces of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in Georgia. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but unemployment rises steadily.

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

Sixth Wittstock film.

Volker Koepp revisits locations and people from his earlier documentaries in the wide Eastern European region of Sarmatia.

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

Documentary about a farmer's wife in former East Prussia.

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany.

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

Seventh and last Wittstock film.

Interview with Volker Koepp about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).