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.

Directed

1. Beer Chase (1977) — Director
2. Heal Hitler! (1986) — Director
3. The Ghost (1982) — Director
4. Bye-Bye Bavaria! (1978) — Director
5. The Last Hole (1981) — Director
6. Das Andechser Gefühl (1975) — Director
7. The Atlantic Swimmers (1976) — Director
8. I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus (1989) — Director
9. Ab nach Tibet! (1994) — Director
10. Picasso in Munich (1997) — Director
11. Der Komantsche (1979) — Director
12. Der Neger Erwin (1981) — Director
13. Wanderkrebs (1984) — Director
14. Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand (1998) — Director
15. Hades (1995) — Director
16. Der Depp (1982) — Director
17. Das Kind ist tot (1971) — Director
18. Die Föhnforscher (1985) — Director
19. 6. Dezember 1971 (1972) — Director
20. Punch Drunk (1987) — Director
21. Rita Ritter (1984) — Director
22. Blaue Blumen (1985) — Director
23. Wohin? (1988) — Director
24. The Olympic Champion (1983) — Director
25. Der junge Mönch (1978) — Director
26. Mixwix (1989) — Director
27. Ich bin da, ich bin da (1993) — Director
28. Niemandsland (1991) — Director
29. Das Klatschen der einen Hand (2002) — Director
30. Hick's Last Stand (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) — country boy #1
2. Beer Chase (1977) — Herbert, Polizist
3. Heal Hitler! (1986)
4. The Ghost (1982) — Ober
5. The Last Hole (1981) — Der Nil
6. Bye-Bye Bavaria! (1978) — Dichter und Wilddieb
7. Das Andechser Gefühl (1975) — Teacher
8. The Atlantic Swimmers (1976) — Herbert
9. I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus (1989) — Hick
10. Ab nach Tibet! (1994) — Hick
11. Der Depp (1982) — Der Depp
12. Der Komantsche (1979) — Komantsche Koyotendreck
13. Der Neger Erwin (1981) — Der Neger Erwin
14. Das Kind ist tot (1971)
15. Punch Drunk (1987)
16. Rita Ritter (1984) — Passenger
17. Die Föhnforscher (1985) — Herbert
18. Blaue Blumen (1985) — Narrator (voice)
19. Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand (1998) — Hick
20. Picasso in Munich (1997) — Picasso
21. Hades (1995) — Hades
22. Wohin? (1988) — Herbert
23. The Olympic Champion (1983) — Adi
24. Stayover in Tirol (1974) — Lehrer
25. Der junge Mönch (1978)
26. Mixwix (1989) — Mixwix
27. Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße (2004) — Self
28. Attwenger Film (1995) — Self (voice)
29. Achternbusch (2008) — Self
30. Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch (1990) — Self
31. Ich bin da, ich bin da (1993) — Hick
32. Bierbichler (2008) — Self
33. Das Klatschen der einen Hand (2002)
34. Niemandsland (1991)
35. Hick's Last Stand (1990)
36. Heimat - Deine Filme (2008) — Self