Christoph Hübner

Vom Ende eines Zeitalters (2024)

The era of mining is coming to an end in the Ruhr area. Prosper-Haniel is the last shaft that is still in use and will finally be closed for coal production in 2018. ...

Nachlass (2018)

Transmitting (2013)

Three famous jazz musicians, the German Jochim Kühm, the Moroccan Majid Bekkas, the Spanish Ramon Lopez, realize a long-term dream: One month of free time together in Morocco, time for music, for encounters, for a new CD. They rent a small studio in Rabat ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Thomas Heise (2012)

With his background in Brechtian theater and the material-like, pure poetic style of his documentaries, Thomas Heise has created his very own kind of filmic expression. ...

Mandala (2012)

The film Mandala by Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss shows in great calm and forcefulness the formation and destruction of the hitherto largest sand mandala in the "Bochumer Jahrhunderthalle zur Ruhrtriennale", created in 2011. ...

HalbZeit - Vom Traum ins Leben (2010)

Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel (2007)

Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father's closeness to the Nazi Party, the little T ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki (2005)

Among the "political" filmmakers who got their start in the student movement, Harun Farocki is perhaps the most formally brilliant and conscious, and today he is exploring new documentary territory with his video installations. ...

Die Champions - Der Traum vom Fußball (2003)

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Elfi Mikesch (2000)

The cinematographer and idiosyncratic filmmaker Elfi Mikesch has significantly contributed to the extension of the aesthetic boundaries of the "standard" documentary. ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Hans-Dieter Grabe (1998)

Despite or perhaps because of his position at the public television channel ZDF, Hans-Dieter Grabe has developed his own unmistakable signature style which falls between journalism and documentary (similar to Klaus Wildenhahn during his time at the TV chan ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Klaus Wildenhahn (1995)

Interview with Klaus Wildenhahn about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Peter Nestler (1994)

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner ...

Anna Zeit Land (1994)

Two women on a journey through Germany from 1989 to 1993. ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Jürgen Böttcher (1990)

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner ...

Vincent van Gogh - Der Weg nach Courrières (1989)

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo. ...

Prosper/Ebel - Inmitten von Deutschland (1982)

The last of the five films in the original film series is composed of footage from Ebel shot between 1979 and 1982 and most closely reflects the original concept of Hübner and Voss. ...

Die Einwanderer (1981)

Documentary about guest workers in the Ruhr area. Part of the seven-part film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung". ...

Frauen-Leben (1980)

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. ...

Tor 2 (1979)

Documentary about a steelworker strike on New Year's Eve 1978/79. ...

Lebens-Geschichte des Bergarbeiters Alphons S. (1978)

In eight parts, Alphons S. tells the story of his life as a child and teenage miner in the Ruhr region, as a vagrant traveling across Germany in the 1920s, as a farm worker on estates in Mecklenburg, as an anarchist and left-wing socialist—but above all ...

Huckinger März (1974)

Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel (2007)

Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father's closeness to the Nazi Party, the little T ...