Christoph Schlingensief

Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) (2012)

A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial sequence dissipates in an intoxicating rush, only to resurface, ghost-like, in a third sequence. Nothing is fin ...

Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009)

Film by Kluge and Aust. ...

Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir (2009)

The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay. ...

The African Twin Towers (2008)

Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the German southwest African colony of Lüderitz, Namibia, The African Twin Towers instead turned into an unusually personal and absorbing documentar ...

Fremdverstümmelung (2007)

Part of the Bonn opera production "Freax". Schlingensief's disabled protagonists initially move through the circus ring in artist costumes, as in Tod Browning's Freaks (1932), interspersed with and thus communicating with footage of their controversial ope ...

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg (2005)

The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest. ...

Freakstars 3000 (2003)

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I was shocked about how the disabled were depicted in this film the more I started to realize that in every n ...

Hamlet: This Is Your Family (2001)

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief's Nazi-'Hamlet' (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free ...

The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking. ...

United Trash (1996)

In Africa - Land of the ever shining sun, German soldiers fulfill a UN mission. For homosexual General Brenner its a dream comes true: Here, where the people are still native and simple, the German can prove his abilities. But then the virgin wife of Brenn ...

00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (1994)

The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume control of the case. Schneider and his aged sidekick Körschgen investigate to find the murderer. ...

Death of a World Star (1994)

A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred Edel is sent in to film an obituary. ...

Terror 2000 (1993)

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provinci ...

The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages. ...

Sukkubus (1989)

Sometime during the 19th century in Switzerland: After a delirious night of drinking, three herdsmen who are all alone in the alps with their kettle, create a female doll from cloth and a strangely formed wooden root. When their creation comes to life in f ...

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker (1989)

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker. ...

Mother's Mask (1988)

Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the industrialist family, while their ailing mother is in the hands of sinister doctors. When he falls in love with the terminally ill Els, fate take ...

Der Werwolf von W. (1987)

A gloomy small town at peace with itself on the edge of a bizarre industrial landscape. The former night watchman of the industrial complex is discovered murdered. The police inspector in charge of the case soon sees a link between the murder and an ominou ...

Stangenfieber (1987)

"Stangenfieber" is an almost 30-year-old short movie which runs for nine minutes. It is the first directorial effort by Helge Schneider and came out shortly after "Johnny Flash". In this full feature, Schneider was not yet director and writer himself, but ...

Egomania: Island Without Hope (1987)

Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film's characters – riddled with unconscious desires – find themselv ...

Film Before Film (1987)

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoram ...

Johnny Flash (1986)

Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers compete for his contract. All Johnny really wants to do is get some sleep. ...

Menu Total (1986)

A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which follows no linear narrative structure, at a moment when right-leaning German intellectuals argued for a coming ...

Idiots' Battle (1986)

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf to inaugurate their cinema organ. The look and feel of the film stems from the ...

My Wife in 5 (1985)

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the styles, as if this record had a jump – Irving Berlin's This Is The Army, Mr. Jones, an Ave Maria Variation and ...

Bye Bye (1985)

Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1984)

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he still does - with the term 'avant-garde'. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an ea ...

Bemerkungen I (1984)

Phantasus Go Home (1983)

The first part of the little trilogy Phantasus muss anders werden; What happened to Magdalena Jung?; and Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1983/84). The first two shorts were firstly shown at a counter-event of the "Westdeutschen Kurzfilmtage" (short film f ...

What Happened to Magdalena Jung? (1983)

Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off a new start without stale romanticism and mysticism. ...

For Elise (1982)

In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep life crisis after being rejected by the Munich Film Academy. ...

How would you decide? (1982)

An early short film by Christoph Schlingensief, that is already dealing with German bourgeoisie and reality TV. In this television programme (originally hosted by Gerd Jauch), real court proceedings are presented to the audience in a television studio. ...

Hey Mum, Let's Shoot a Movie (1977)

A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as a backdrop, and still fails. ...

Das Totenhaus der Lady Florence (1975)

Die Schulklasse (1969)

My 1st Film (1968)

The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some "friends of the basement" and featuring a drama divided into three acts. Recurring elements of his cinematography, such as narrative parody and cinema as a creative collective moment, ...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020)

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010. ...

Partisan (2018)

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working ...

Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland (2017)

Using rich archive material, this documentary looks back at Christoph Schlingensief and his cross-border art project for the 1998 Bundestag elections. ...

Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso (2012)

Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village in Burkina Faso. What was initially planned as a festival theater soon developed into a more ambitious idea, ...

Erdbeerfelder für immer (2010)

Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and Christoph Schlingensief, footage of the theatre work "Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in Mir" in Amsterdam. ...

Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten (2008)

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he pro ...

Christoph Schlingensief and his Films (2005)

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips. ...

Silentium (2004)

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself. ...

Freakstars 3000 (2003)

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I was shocked about how the disabled were depicted in this film the more I started to realize that in every n ...

Hamlet_X (2003)

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story. ...

Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the go ...

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang (2002)

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his childhood and youth, from the bombing of Halberstadt, his home town. "What you don't understand as a child you ...

Hamlet: This Is Your Family (2001)

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief's Nazi-'Hamlet' (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free ...

Failure as a Chance (2000)

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000". ...

Street Kid (1999)

Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins. ...

Che: muerte de la utopia? (1999)

What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define their concept of utopia? ...

Silvester Countdown (1998)

A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between. ...

Death of a World Star (1994)

A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred Edel is sent in to film an obituary. ...

Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da (1994)

A docudrama about the eventful life of Domenica Niehoff, a high-class prostitute from Hamburg who later became a social worker: Domenica's mother leaves Italy and her abusive husband, makes her way to Germany with her two children, but ends up in prison, a ...

Farewell to Agnes (1994)

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic. ...

Terror 2000 (1993)

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provinci ...

Bye Bye (1985)

Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da (1984)

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he still does - with the term 'avant-garde'. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an ea ...

For Elise (1982)

In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep life crisis after being rejected by the Munich Film Academy. ...

Die Schulklasse (1969)