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Christoph Schlingensief

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German theatre and film director, playwright, and performance artist (1960-2010)

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Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German theatre director, performance artist, and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies.

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Schlingensief at the 2009 Berlinale reception, with his partner Aino Laberenz [de] (right), Alice Waters and Gaston KaboréSchlingensief at the 2009 Berlinale reception, with his partner Aino Laberenz [de] (right), Alice Waters and Gaston KaboréSchlingensief speaking at the Deutschlandsuche 99 performance in front of the Volksbühne, 1999Schlingensief speaking at the Deutschlandsuche 99 performance in front of the Volksbühne, 1999

Filmography 40

Silentium2004 · ★ 7.2
00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter1994 · ★ 6.4
The German Chainsaw Massacre1990
The 120 Days of Bottrop1997
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container2002
Egomania: Island Without Hope1987
United Trash1996
Terror 20001993
Mother's Mask1988
100 Years of Adolf Hitler - The Last Hour in the Führerbunker1989
Schlingensief - A Voice That Shook the Silence2020
Freakstars 30002003
Menu Total1986
Street Kid1992
Tunguska - Die Kisten sind da1984
Silvester Countdown1998
Hamlet_X2003
My 1st Film1968
For Elise1982
My Wife in 51985
Death of a World Star1994
What Happened to Magdalena Jung?1983
The African Twin Towers2008
Nonkonform2025
Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da1994
Failure as a Chance2000
Hamlet: This Is Your Family2001
Das Totenhaus der Lady Florence1975
Kippenberger - Der Film2005
The Secret of the Count of Kaunitz1977
How would you decide?1982
Farewell to Agnes1994
Idiots' Battle1986
Che: muerte de la utopia?1999
Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso2012
Bye Bye1985
Partisan2018
Die Schulklasse1969
Bemerkungen I1984
Christoph Schlingensief and his Films2005

126 credits on file

Television 21

Volle Kanne1999
Die Harald Schmidt Show1995
NDR Talk Show1979
Nachtcafé1987
3 nach 91974
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio1994
Beckmann1999
Bambi1948
Kulturplatz2004
Aeschbacher2001
Sabine Christiansen1998
Sternstunde Philosophie1998
Through the Night with...2002
Boulevard Bio1991
Nachtstudio1997
Gero von Boehm begegnet...2002
Im Palais2004
U30002000
Germany, Your Artists2008
Schlingensiefs U30002000
Talk 20001997

Awards 3

2010Helmut Käutner Prize
2009Berliner Bär
2007Ruhrpreis for Arts and Science

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Connected to Christoph 6

Helge SchneiderAlso in Menu Total (1986)Irm HermannAlso in The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)Oskar RoehlerAlso in The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)Peter SellarsAlso in Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)Margit CarstensenAlso in Terror 2000 (1993)Meret BeckerAlso in Hamlet_X (2003)

About this person

Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German theatre director, performance artist, and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a Regietheater artist.

Country
Germany
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1960 to 2010 · aged 49
Written about in
21 languages

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