Daniel Kötter
Biography
Daniel Kötter (1975, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) has been working for 20 years as a theatre and documentary film director. His documentary and performance practice regularly takes him to the African continent, but also to the Middle East, North America and Southeast Asia. His work, which has been presented at numerous international festivals, focuses on the study of spatial politics. In addition to numerous music theatre pieces with composer Hannes Seidl (2008-2020), he developed the documentary film series “State-theatre Lagos/Tehran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach” (2009-2014, with Constanze Fischbeck), the award-winning trilogy on urban peripheries Hashti Tehran, Desert View, Rift Finfinnee (2017-2020), the exhibition and film project “CHINAFRIKA” (2014-18, with Jochen Becker) and the series of virtual reality performances and films “landscapes and bodies” on the impact of mining on landscapes and communities in West Papua, Saxony, Ruhrgebiet, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Estonia (2018-2021).