“Tötet Helmut Kohl” (“Kill Helmut Kohl”) read the banner that got German artist Christoph Schlingensief arrested. It was 1997, and the sign aimed at the conservative chancellor was part of his project ...

Milos Stehlik is Director of Facets Multimedia and Worldview's Film Contributor. His film commentaries air on Fridays. Today looks at the strange life and work of Christoph Schlingensief. In 1998, ...

Christoph Schlingensief, a filmmaker, theater director and political gadfly who made it his life’s work to upset German complacency and the status quo, died on Saturday in Berlin. He was 49. His death ...

Director Christoph Schlingensief Faces Mortality 'I Have No Desire to Go to Heaven' Leading German stage director and filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief talks about his lung cancer, how he copes with ...

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A new documentary portrays the enfant terrible theater director, performance artist and filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief, who died 10 years ago. "The word all-round artist always sounds odd, but ...

He was once arrested for exhibiting a poster that exhorted fellow citizens to kill the German chancellor. He put a dead rabbit in an opera and invited millions of unemployed Germans to flood their ...

Before his death in 2010, Christoph Schlingensief was slated to design the German Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Curator Susanne Gaensheimer reflects on the direction of the exhibition in his ...

GOETHE FILMS features core Schlingensief projects that tackle the ghosts of Europe's past, present and future – fascism, capitalism, division and reunification – in his signature no-holds-barred ...

Berlin - Burkina Faso is considered one of the poorest countries in the world. It has repeatedly been hit by periods of drought. When it comes to the corona crisis, the country has been largely absent ...