Biography
Stefan Aust is a German journalist, writer and publisher.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Stammheim - Zeit des Terrors
2025
Writer
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...
Hannelore Kohl - Die erste Frau
2020
Author, Director
Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers t...
Die Neuvermessung der Welt
2016
Writer
The NSU-Complex
2016
Director, Producer
A documentary about the NSU (National Socialist Underground) terrorist group.
Re-Surveying the World
2016
Director
Der geplünderte Staat - Geheime Geschaefte von Politik und Wirtschaft
2014
Author, Director
Die Falle 9-11
2011
Director
Die zahlreichen Bilder vom 11. September bewahren die Erinnerung an eine beispiellose Katastrophe. Zu ihrem zehnten Jahrestag wird der Anschlag im Fer...
Hitlers Menschenhändler: Juden als Austauschware
2011
Director, Writer
The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against arms sales or for cash - with the express approva...
Der Deutschland-Komplex
2009
Director
Film by Kluge and Aust.
Revolution! Das Jahr 1968
2008
Director, Writer
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
Novel
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the ...
Baader-Meinhof Gang
2007
The Baader-Meinhof gang, a left-wing terrorist collective born of the student revolutions of the Sixties, terrorized West Germany with a series of bom...
The RAF: The Red Army Fraction
2007
Director, Writer
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 - ...
Der Fall der Mauer
2005
Author
Der Pirat
1998
Screenplay
Hamburg, end of the 1960s: occasional pothead Jan, also known as "the pirate", makes a career for himself in the local drug scene. He quickly becomes ...
Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye
1988
as Self
A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young wom...
The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
1986
Writer
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff...
Krieg und Frieden
1982
Director, Writer
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
The Candidate
1980
Director, Writer
Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present a...
Gudrun Ensslin - the early years
1968
Writer
How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Gudr...