Complete Filmography

Stammheim - Zeit des Terrors
2025
Commissioning Editor
The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most elaborate in the Federal Republic of Germany. Throug...

From Darkness to Light
2025
Director, Writer
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews wi...

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024
Director
To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric Frie...

Loriot 100
2023
Executive Producer
Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022
Editorial Staff
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his l...

The American Führer
2022
Idea
The story of the fascist conman Fritz Julius Kuhn is as unknown as it is terrifying: Kuhn is a German immigrant who pretends to be Hitler’s deputy in ...

Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes
2020
Editorial Staff
On June 1st, 2019, around 11:30pm, the shoot which represents a turning point in the federal republic falls. In the hessian small town Wolfhagen-Istha...

A Black Jesus
2020
Producer
In Siculiana, a small Sicilian town full of flaking facades, religiosity is lived out as a matter of course. And of course the figure of Jesus Christ ...

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Director, Script, Screenplay
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

Die Affäre Borgward
2018
Producer
The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaftswunder. For hundreds of thousands the "Isabella" ...

Lehman. Gier frisst Herz
2018
Commissioning Editor
On September 15, 2008, the financial world faces its worst crisis since the end of the Second World War. Lehman Brothers, one of the world's largest i...

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018
Director, Writer
A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany...

Eskimo Limon - Eis am Stiel: Von Siegern und Verlierern
2018
Writer, Director
Eric Friedler, multiple winner of the Grimme and German Television Awards, accompanies the actors from back then on a journey into their past. In inte...

The Clown
2016
Director, Writer
A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".

Das Mädchen – Was geschah mit Elisabeth K.?
2014
Director, Writer
Argentina, 1977: The country is oppressed by a military dictatorship. Thousands of critics of the regime are abducted, tortured and killed. Elisabeth ...

The Voice of Peace
2014
Director

Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
2012
Director
Germany's most popular punk rock band "Die Toten Hosen" ("The dead pants") celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2012. In his film "Nichts als die Wahr...

Ein deutscher Boxer
2012
Director, Writer
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
2012
Director
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had called itself "the better Germany" for 40 year...

Aghet
2010
Director
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness report...

Berlin '36
2009
Writer
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by...
The Silence of the Quandts
2007
Director, Writer
A documentary describing the role of the Quandt family businesses during World War II.

The RAF: The Red Army Fraction
2007
Commissioning Editor
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 - ...
Lemon Popsicle - of Winners and Losers
N/A
Director
The film explores the impact of LEMON POPSICLE, a 1978 Israeli coming of age comedy about the sexual revolution and free love which subsequently found...