Ottinger's Paris: The Paris of the 1960s, marked by political upheaval, was a magnet for artists from all over the world and a pulsating stream of energy between trauma recovery and European utopia.

In this autobiographical volume, filmmaker, photographer and world collector Ulrike Ottinger combines historical archive material with her own artistic and cinematic works to create a sociogram of her coming of age as an artist. From the Librairie Calligrammes, a meeting place for German intellectuals in exile, to the Cinémathèque française, which ignited her love of cinema, a cartography of a city and its utopias emerges, which lives on in Ulrike Ottinger's film Paris Calligrammes (2019) as a collaged landscape of memories.