Christoph Schlingensief

Q: Did Christoph Schlingensief win any awards?

Schlingensief received several accolades throughout his career, including the prestigious German Film Award for his contributions to cinema and theater.

Q: What was Christoph Schlingensief's first film?

His first significant film was 'The German Chainsaw Massacre' released in 1990, which showcased his unique approach to storytelling.

Q: What themes did Christoph Schlingensief explore in his work?

He often explored themes of identity, politics, and societal critique, using provocative narratives to engage audiences and spark discussions.

Q: What was Christoph Schlingensief's contribution to theater?

Schlingensief was a revolutionary figure in theater, known for his experimental productions that combined performance art with social commentary.

Q: What is Christoph Schlingensief's estimated net worth?

His estimated net worth was around 1 million USD, reflecting his success in both film and theater.

Q: How did Christoph Schlingensief influence German cinema?

He influenced German cinema through his unconventional style and willingness to address controversial topics, paving the way for future filmmakers.

Q: What legacy did Christoph Schlingensief leave behind?

Christoph Schlingensief left a lasting legacy in the arts, remembered for his fearless creativity and commitment to challenging societal norms through his work.

Known for

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (2022)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

2022 / Crime, Documentary / 92mins

Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.

Name

Christoph Schlingensief

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

24 October 1960, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Spouses

Nina Schlingensief (1999–2010)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Hans Schlingensief, Marianne Schlingensief

Estimated Net Worth

1 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Nonkonform A sparkling documentary portrait of Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, now retired in Blankenese, following his witty daily routines, reflections on past roles...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2020	Movie Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Partisan Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after...	Unknown character	Not rated
2017	Movie Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland Using rich archive material, this documentary looks back at Christoph Schlingensief and his cross-border art project for the 1998 Bundestag...	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village in...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie Erdbeerfelder für immer Documentary about Klaus Beyer with footage of this performance at WP8 Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, talks with Jörg Buttgereit and Christoph Schlingensief,...	Unknown character	Not rated
2008	Movie Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work...	Self	Not rated
2008	TV Germany, Your Artists	Self	Not rated
2005	Movie Kippenberger - Der Film Documentary about the German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997).	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie Christoph Schlingensief and his Films Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.	Himself	Not rated
2004	Movie Silentium A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city...	Opernregisseur	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	TV Kulturplatz	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2004	TV Im Palais	Self	Not rated
2003	Movie Freakstars 3000 As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Hamlet_X A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part...	Gynaecologist	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2002	TV Through the Night with... Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE....	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2002	TV Gero von Boehm begegnet...	Self	Not rated
2002	Movie Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and...	Himself	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2002	Movie Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including...	Self	Not rated
2001	Movie Hamlet: This Is Your Family A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a...	Himself	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2001	TV Aeschbacher	Self	Not rated
2000	TV U3000 In the eight-part program U3000 (2000), broadcasted by the music station MTV, Schlingensief assumes the role of the presenter who...	Self - Host	Not rated
2000	TV Schlingensiefs U3000	Self - Host	Not rated
2000	Movie Failure as a Chance Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	TV Volle Kanne	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1999	Movie Street Kid Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is...	Knecht	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1999	Movie Che: muerte de la utopia? What does Che Guevara"s mythic presence represent to people at the turn of the century, and how do people define...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	TV Beckmann Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1998	TV Sternstunde Philosophie	Self	Not rated
1998	Movie Silvester Countdown A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that...	Pole	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1998	TV Sabine Christiansen	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	TV Talk 2000	Moderator	Not rated
1997	TV Nachtstudio	Self	Not rated
1997	Movie Schlingensief erzählt Psycho	Unknown character	Not rated
1995	TV Die Harald Schmidt Show The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie Death of a World Star A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred...	Interviewer / Italian / Barlady	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1994	Movie Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da A docudrama about the eventful life of Domenica Niehoff, a high-class prostitute from Hamburg who later became a social worker:...	Belgier	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	Movie Farewell to Agnes A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic...	Reporter	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Terror 2000 Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this...	Michel aus Lünen	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1991	TV Boulevard Bio	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	TV Nachtcafé	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1985	Movie Bye Bye	Self	Not rated
1984	Movie Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same...	Major Pater Hilf	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1982	Movie For Elise In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep...	Trumpet Player	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1979	TV NDR Talk Show	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1974	TV 3 nach 9	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1969	Movie Die Schulklasse	Teacher	Not rated
1948	TV Bambi The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2012	Movie Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence...	Director Directing	Not rated
2011	Movie Via Intolleranza II	Director Directing	Not rated
2009	Movie Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick....	Director Directing	Not rated
2009	Movie Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick....	Writer Writing	Not rated
2009	Movie Der Deutschland-Komplex Film by Kluge and Aust.	Camera Operator Camera	Not rated
2009	Movie Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.	Director Directing	Not rated
2009	Movie Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.	Writer Writing	Not rated
2008	Movie The African Twin Towers Originally conceived as a film about 9/11, Richard Wagner, and the warrior Hagen von Tronje, to be shot in the...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Fremdverstümmelung Part of the Bonn opera production "Freax". Schlingensief's disabled protagonists initially move through the circus ring in artist costumes, as...	Director of Photography Camera	Not rated
2007	Movie Fremdverstümmelung Part of the Bonn opera production "Freax". Schlingensief's disabled protagonists initially move through the circus ring in artist costumes, as...	Director Directing	Not rated
2007	Movie Fremdverstümmelung Part of the Bonn opera production "Freax". Schlingensief's disabled protagonists initially move through the circus ring in artist costumes, as...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
2007	Movie The Flying Dutchman in Manaus The German Wagner under the Reinheitsgebot and Manaus under his plume of steam, this does not fit, it collides -...	Director Directing	Not rated
2005	Movie Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus...	Director Directing	Not rated
2005	Movie Affenführer Monkey fuhrer.	Director Directing	Not rated
2003	Movie Freakstars 3000 As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Freakstars 3000 As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Hamlet: This Is Your Family A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	TV U3000 In the eight-part program U3000 (2000), broadcasted by the music station MTV, Schlingensief assumes the role of the presenter who...	Director Directing	Not rated
1997	Movie The 120 Days of Bottrop An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1997	Movie The 120 Days of Bottrop An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	Movie United Trash In Africa - Land of the ever shining sun, German soldiers fulfill a UN mission. For homosexual General Brenner its...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1996	Movie United Trash In Africa - Land of the ever shining sun, German soldiers fulfill a UN mission. For homosexual General Brenner its...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1996	Movie United Trash In Africa - Land of the ever shining sun, German soldiers fulfill a UN mission. For homosexual General Brenner its...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1994	Movie 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1994	Movie 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1994	Movie Death of a World Star A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred...	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1994	Movie Death of a World Star A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred...	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	Movie Terror 2000 Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1993	Movie Terror 2000 Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1990	Movie The German Chainsaw Massacre Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1990	Movie The German Chainsaw Massacre Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1990	Movie The German Chainsaw Massacre Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1989	Movie Sukkubus Sometime during the 19th century in Switzerland: After a delirious night of drinking, three herdsmen who are all alone in...	Assistant Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	Movie 100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie 100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie 100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1988	Movie Mother's Mask Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the...	Editor Editing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Mother's Mask Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Mother's Mask Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Mother's Mask Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Mother's Mask Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Sheep in Wales “Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popular expectations, but in...	Director Directing	Not rated
1987	Movie Der Werwolf von W. A gloomy small town at peace with itself on the edge of a bizarre industrial landscape. The former night watchman...	Assistant Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie Stangenfieber	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie Egomania: Island Without Hope Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...	Editor Editing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Egomania: Island Without Hope Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Egomania: Island Without Hope Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Egomania: Island Without Hope Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Egomania: Island Without Hope Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Film Before Film An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1986	Movie Johnny Flash Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1986	Movie Menu Total A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this...	Producer Production	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1986	Movie Menu Total A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1986	Movie Menu Total A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this...	Director Directing	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1986	Movie Menu Total A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1986	Movie Idiots' Battle This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel...	Cinematography Crew	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Idiots' Battle This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Idiots' Battle This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Idiots' Battle This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1985	Movie My Wife in 5 In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1985	Movie Bye Bye	Director Directing	Not rated
1984	Movie Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie Bemerkungen I	Director Directing	Not rated
1983	Movie Phantasus Go Home The first part of the little trilogy Phantasus muss anders werden; What happened to Magdalena Jung?; and Tunguska – Die...	Director Directing	Not rated
1983	Movie What Happened to Magdalena Jung? Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off...	Director Directing	TMDB 2.0 / 10
1982	Movie For Elise In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep...	Director Directing	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1982	Movie For Elise In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep...	Producer Production	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1982	Movie For Elise In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep...	Editor Editing	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1982	Movie For Elise In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1982	Movie How would you decide? An early short film by Christoph Schlingensief, that is already dealing with German bourgeoisie and reality TV. In this television...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1977	Movie Hey Mum, Let's Shoot a Movie A satire about an ambitious amateur filmmaker decides to make a movie, enlists his family, uses the entire town as...	Director Directing	Not rated
1977	Movie The Secret of the Count of Kaunitz Five camping youths see at night a ghostly woman, which leads them to the castle of Count Kaunitz, in what...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1975	Movie Das Totenhaus der Lady Florence	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1969	Movie Die Schulklasse	Director Directing	Not rated
1968	Movie My 1st Film The first short film shot by Schlingensief at the age of eight with some “friends of the basement” and featuring...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10

Nonkonform

2025 / TMDB 8.0

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

2020 / TMDB 6.0

Partisan

2018

Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland

2017

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

2012 / TMDB 7.0

Erdbeerfelder für immer

2010

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Christoph Schlingensief is best known for his roles in 'Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard' and various avant-garde theater productions. His work often challenged societal norms.

Did Christoph Schlingensief win any awards?

What was Christoph Schlingensief's first film?

What themes did Christoph Schlingensief explore in his work?

What was Christoph Schlingensief's contribution to theater?

What is Christoph Schlingensief's estimated net worth?

How did Christoph Schlingensief influence German cinema?

What legacy did Christoph Schlingensief leave behind?

Christoph Schlingensief

Known for

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (2022)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Nonkonform

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Partisan

Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland

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

Erdbeerfelder für immer

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