Moritz Götze is the son of Wasja and Inge Götze. His father, Wasja Götze, was one artists of the counter-culture movement in East Germany. Moritz Götze grew up in Halle. In the 1980s he worked as carpenter, singer and guitar player in punk bands and organized punk festivals, as the East German authorities had blocked his development as an artist. Between 1985 and 1995 he ran a workshop, in which he produced posters and silkscreen prints. He held an academic appointment as a lecturer at the University of Art and Design Halle in 1991-194 and was a visiting scholar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1994. Götze works with his spouse and fellow-artist Grita Goetze in Halle, where he curates exhibitions, supports young musicians and is involved in heritage conservation. Together with Peter Gerlach and Simone Trieder he founded in 2006 the publishing house Hasenverlag in Halle/Saale, which specializes in art books and the cultural history of the region.
