Career
Mommartz" parents moved the family to Düsseldorf in 1937, where he spent the entirety of his young adult life, working for the local government of the city from 1957 until 1975. From 1978 to 1999, he was a professor of film at the Künstakademie Münster. From 1999 until 2002, he returned to Düsseldorf, and from 2001 he divides his time between there and Berlin.