Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1938-11-23
Day of Death
2022-01-10
Place of Birth
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Herbert Achternbusch
Biography
Writer, actor, and German filmmaker born in Munich in 1938. He spent his childhood and youth in Bavaria, region which remains until today its major source of artistic inspiration. Their activity is very diverse: he has composed pieces for theater and radio scripts, translator, painter and sculptor. As different as his artistic activities is his work, and therefore difficult to classify. In the world of cinema, his career fits approaches independent, mostly defined by a position too personalistic, provocative, that has left a deep imprint on works eminently conceptual and avant-garde, as well as suggesting in criticism of the subjects addressed (religion, society, geographical framework in which wandering people, etc.). His films just transcend the commercial sector; It is one of the most followed by seekers of original, stories of passes in areas interested in film culture. His anarchist surrealistic films are not known to a wide audience in Germany, although one of them, Das Gespenst (The Ghost), caused a scandal in 1983 because of its alleged blasphemous content. Werner Herzog, a director of the New German Cinema, based his film Heart of Glass on a story by Achternbusch.
Filmography (35)
Achternbusch
2008
Bierbichler
2008Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
2004Das Klatschen der einen Hand
2002
Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand
1998
Picasso in Munich
1997
Hades
1995
Attwenger Film
1995
Ab nach Tibet!
1994Ich bin da, ich bin da
1993Niemandsland
1991
Hick's Last Stand
1990Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch
1990
