 In the 1960s, Doris Schöttler-Boll lived in Bochum where her husband Peter Schöttler was enrolled in the history department of the Ruhr University Bochum.She studied art at the Folkwang University of the Arts, an art academy in Essen.Simultaneously she was attending lectures in Bochum and was an avid "cinéaste" who spent much time seeing art films at the Bochum university film club.