Klaus Wildenhahn

Ein kleiner Film für Bonn (2000)

Klaus Wildenhahn, a native of Bonn, takes a personal and slightly wistful look behind the scenes of the government's move from Bonn to Berlin and bids farewell to the comparatively modest "federal village." He is not interested in the political celebrities ...

Reise nach Mostar (1995)

Die dritte Brücke (1995)

Workers Leaving the Factory (1995)

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of workers leaving factories throughout ...

Freier Fall: Johanna K. (1993)

In her former life, Johanna K. worked as a civil engineer – Mr Kamermans – in Holland, building dykes and roads. Then she discovered her love of beautiful clothes and cabaret, and found her calling as a dancer. Pleasantly, calmly, and with admirable th ...

Noch einmal HH 4: Reeperbahn nebenan (1991)

A portrait of St. Pauli and its people. ...

Der König geht. Schloss Dresden (Sommer `90) (1990)

Klaus Wildenhahn portraits workers and engineers restoring the Dresden Castle in the summer of 1990. ...

Reise nach Ostende (1989)

Barmbek: Der Aufstand wird abgebrochen (1989)

Short version of Wildenhahn's own 1971 three-part film "Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923". ...

Rheinhausen - Herbst '88 (1988)

Stillegung. Oberhausen Mai-Juli `87 (1987)

Klaus Wildenhahn documents the consequences of the shutdown of the Thyssen smeltery in the city of Oberhausen. ...

Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock (1984)

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock. ...

What Are Pina Bausch and Her Dancers Doing in Wuppertal? (1983)

Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time ...

Bandonion. 2. Tango im Exil (1981)

Second bandoneon film by Klaus Wildenhahn. ...

Bandonion. 1. Deutsche Tangos (1981)

A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region. ...

Der Nachwelt eine Botschaft. Ein Arbeiterdichter (1980)

A portrait of the writer and former miner Günter Westerhoff ...

Tor 2 (1979)

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

Im Norden das Meer, im Westen der Fluß, im Süden das Moor, im Osten Vorurteile - Annäherungen an eine norddeutsche Provinz (1977)

This documentary brings together literary quotations, landscape photos, conversations with former farm workers, and memories of the concentration camps in Emsland. ...

Emden geht nach USA (1976)

A four-part documentary about an economical crisis of the car industry in Germany, in the summer of 1975. ...

Der Mann mit der roten Nelke (1975)

Behind the scenes look at the preparations for the last two editions of Dietmar Schönherr's Talkshow. ...

Die Liebe zum Land (1975)

The two-part documentary introduced people in the villages and less populated areas of the Federal Republic. The prevailing structures, worries, hardships and hopes were shown - a portrait of the 1970s. ...

The Hamburg Uprising of 1923 (1971)

This award-winning film documents the only uprising of communists ever to occur in Germany. During the post-World War I period, Germany suffered from hyperinflation and the near-starvation of many working people. Working conditions were extremely bad, and ...

Institutssommer (1970)

Documentary film. ...

Harlem Theater (1969)

HARLEM, USA: in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's murder, German filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn turned his 16mm camera on the New Lafayette Theatre as its players rehearsed scenes, ran public workshops and conducted exercises in uptown Manhattan. New Lafay ...

Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau (1969)

Docuemntary about a couple who lives on the frinches of German society. ...

Heiligabend auf St. Pauli (1968)

A paean to alcohol as a means of survival to this world, and to the ephemeral communities created by our need not to be alone. On Christmas Eve, between six in the evening and four at night, Klaus Wildenhahn films people who are excluded from this "must be ...

498 Third Avenue (1968)

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York. ...

In der Fremde (1968)

Workers in the northern German province build a silo. ...

John Cage (1966)

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966. ...

Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 2. Ein Jazz-Organist in Amerika (1966)

Jazz and its milieu. Klaus Wildenhahn films the Jimmy Smith Trio in New York. With the addition of a white guitarist, Kenny Burrell, the band is in the studio recording the Rolling Stones current hit "Satisfaction", as a tribute to the successful British B ...

Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith (1966)

An account of the first European tour of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith and his trio in 1965, replete with backstage footage and music. ...

Zwischen 3 und 7 Uhr morgens (1965)

Parteitag 64 (1964)

Impressions of a party congress of the German social democrat party (SPD) in 1964, featuring politicians Max Brauer, Fritz Erler and Willy Brandt. ...

Ein kleiner Film für Bonn (2000)

Klaus Wildenhahn, a native of Bonn, takes a personal and slightly wistful look behind the scenes of the government's move from Bonn to Berlin and bids farewell to the comparatively modest "federal village." He is not interested in the political celebrities ...

The Last Documentary (2000)

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel. ...

The Critical Mass (1999)

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the Mainstream or the New German Cinema. ...

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

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

Reise nach Mostar (1995)

Rheinhausen - Herbst '88 (1988)

Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock (1984)

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock. ...

Die Liebe zum Land (1975)

The two-part documentary introduced people in the villages and less populated areas of the Federal Republic. The prevailing structures, worries, hardships and hopes were shown - a portrait of the 1970s. ...

5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm (1974)

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The following topics are developed: (1) the personal approach of filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn to his profession; ...

498 Third Avenue (1968)

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York. ...