Herbert Achternbusch

Known for

Directing

Born

November 23, 1938

Birthplace

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Died

January 10, 2022 (aged 83)

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 w...

Best known work

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

Heart of Glass

1976

Beer Chase

1977

Heal Hitler!

1986

The Ghost

1982

The Last Hole

1981

Bye-Bye Bavaria!

1978

Das Andechser Gefühl

1975

The Atlantic Swimmers

1976

I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus

1989

Filmography

2008
Heimat - Deine FilmeTV
as Self (2 episodes)
2008
Achternbusch
as Self
2008
Bierbichler
as Self
2004
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
as Self
2002
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
Director of Photography, Producer, Director, Writer
1998
Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand
as Hick, Director
1997
Picasso in Munich
as Picasso, Director, Writer
1995
Hades
as Hades, Director
1995
Attwenger Film
as Self (voice)
1994
Ab nach Tibet!
as Hick, Director
1993
Ich bin da, ich bin da
as Hick, Director
1991
Niemandsland
Writer, Director, Producer
1990
Hick's Last Stand
Director, Writer, Cinematography, Producer
1990
Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch
as Self
1989
Mixwix
as Mixwix, Writer, Producer, Director
1989
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
as Hick, Producer, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
1988
Wohin?
as Herbert, Director
1987
Punch Drunk
Director of Photography, Director, Production Manager, Writer, Producer
1986
Heal Hitler!
Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Director
1985
Die Föhnforscher
as Herbert, Director, Writer, Producer
1985
Blaue Blumen
as Narrator (voice), Writer, Special Effects, Producer, Director of Photography, Director
1984
Wanderkrebs
Director
1984
Rita Ritter
as Passenger, Director, Producer, Writer
1983
The Olympic Champion
as Adi, Director, Writer, Producer
1982
Der Depp
as Der Depp, Writer, Director