Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German theatre director, performance artist and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies.

Filmography

• 2018Partisan
• 2012Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso
• 2012Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) — Director
• 2011Via Intolleranza II — Director
• 2010Erdbeerfelder für immer
• 2009Der Deutschland-Komplex — Camera Operator
• 2009Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir — Director, Writer
• 2009Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera — Director, Writer
• 2008The African Twin Towers — Self, Director
• 2007Fremdverstümmelung — Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• 2007The Flying Dutchman in Manaus — Director
• 2005Affenführer — Director
• 2005Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg — Director
• 2004Silentium — Opernregisseur
• 2003Freakstars 3000 — Self, Director, Screenplay
• 2003Hamlet_X — Gynaecologist
• 2001Hamlet: This Is Your Family — Himself, Writer
• Schlingensiefs U3000 — Self - Host, Writer
• U3000 — Self - Host, Director, Writer
• 1999Che: muerte de la utopia?
• 1998Silvester Countdown — Pole
• 1997Schlingensief erzählt Psycho
• Talk 2000 — Moderator
• 1997The 120 Days of Bottrop — Director, Screenplay
• 1996United Trash — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 199400 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter — Director of Photography
• 1994Death of a World Star — Interviewer / Italian / Barlady, Director, Writer
• 1994Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da — Belgier
• 1994Farewell to Agnes — Reporter
• 1993Terror 2000 — Michel aus Lünen, Director, Writer
• 1992Street Kid — Knecht
• 1990The German Chainsaw Massacre — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 1989100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1989Sukkubus — Assistant Director
• 1988Mother's Mask — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
• 1988Sheep in Wales — Director
• 1987Der Werwolf von W. — Assistant Director
• 1987Egomania: Island Without Hope — Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Original Music Composer
• 1987Film Before Film — Director of Photography
• 1987Stangenfieber — Director of Photography
• 1986Idiots' Battle — Director, Producer, Cinematography, Screenplay
• 1986Johnny Flash — Director of Photography
• 1986Menu Total — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• 1985Bye Bye — Self, Director
• 1985My Wife in 5 — Director
• 1984Bemerkungen I — Director
• 1984Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da — Major Pater Hilf, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1983Phantasus Go Home — Director
• 1983What Happened to Magdalena Jung? — Director
• 1982For Elise — Trumpet Player, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
• 1982How would you decide? — Director
• 1977Hey Mum, Let's Shoot a Movie — Director
• 1977The Secret of the Count of Kaunitz — Director
• 1975Das Totenhaus der Lady Florence — Director
• 1969Die Schulklasse — Teacher, Director
• 1968My 1st Film — Director

Appearances as themselves (27)

• 2025Nonkonform — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland — Self
• 2008Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten — Self
• Germany, Your Artists — Self
• 2005Christoph Schlingensief and his Films — Himself
• 2005Kippenberger - Der Film — Self
• Im Palais — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2002Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang — Self
• 2002Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container — Self
• Gero von Boehm begegnet... — Self
• Through the Night with... — Self
• Aeschbacher — Self
• 2000Failure as a Chance — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• Volle Kanne — Self
• Sabine Christiansen — Self
• Sternstunde Philosophie — Self
• Nachtstudio — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio — Self
• Boulevard Bio — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self
• Bambi — Self