Film
Concrete Love: The Böhm Family

Sun, 24.09.2017
4:00 PM New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Director: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux, colour, 84 min., 2014

Gottfried Böhm (born in 1920) is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. His fame rests on numerous sacral buildings, with which he continued the work of his father, the master church builder Dominikus Böhm. Gottfried’s three sons, Stephen, Peter and Paul, have long been prominent architects as well. The film closely follows the family, examining a life marked by work – one that Gottfried Böhm’s wife, who sacrificed her own career for the sake of her husband, still participated in, despite her illness. Only after her death does the family become aware of the extent of her inspiration.