Stefan Aust

Hannelore Kohl - Die erste Frau (2020)

Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers too. Last but not least, his success was based on her strength. Hannelore Kohl lived in her husband's iron ...

The NSU-Complex (2016)

A documentary about the NSU (National Socialist Underground) terrorist group. ...

Re-Surveying the World (2016)

Der geplünderte Staat - Geheime Geschaefte von Politik und Wirtschaft (2014)

Die Falle 9-11 (2011)

Die zahlreichen Bilder vom 11. September bewahren die Erinnerung an eine beispiellose Katastrophe. Zu ihrem zehnten Jahrestag wird der Anschlag im Fernsehen wieder und wieder nachgestellt, dokumentiert, analysiert und kommentiert werden. Zum Auftakt zeigt ...

Hitlers Menschenhändler: Juden als Austauschware (2011)

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against arms sales or for cash - with the express approval of Hitler. ...

Der Deutschland-Komplex (2009)

Film by Kluge and Aust. ...

Revolution! Das Jahr 1968 (2008)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudr ...

The RAF: The Red Army Fraction (2007)

From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion. ...

Der Fall der Mauer (2005)

Der Pirat (1998)

Hamburg, end of the 1960s: occasional pothead Jan, also known as "the pirate", makes a career for himself in the local drug scene. He quickly becomes the "hash prince of Hamburg". But when he starts dealing heroin, he also draws his brother Ludwig into his ...

The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff's controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Mein ...

War and Peace (1982)

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A collage of documentary and dramatised sequences dealing with such topics as overkill, peace demonstrations, N ...

The Candidate (1980)

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany's history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most important ...

Gudrun Ensslin - the early years (1968)

How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader was involved the violence and their actions escalated. Soon they were joined ...

Baader-Meinhof Gang (2007)

The Baader-Meinhof gang, a left-wing terrorist collective born of the student revolutions of the Sixties, terrorized West Germany with a series of bombings, assassinations and hijackings in the Seventies. They became die RAF - die rote army fraktion in 197 ...

Ballhaus Barmbek - Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye (1988)

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young women and a regular dance employee. ...