"Schlingensief was one of the greatest artists who ever lived.

Court métrage de Christoph Schlingensief (Allemagne, 1983, 13mn). Organized by curator Susanne Gaensheimer, who completed the exhibition after Schlingensief's death, the German pavilion was transformed into a replica of the church where the artist spent his teenage years as an altar boy in order to present "Fluxus Oratorio," the second of … Eine Stunde Interview mit Christoph Schlingensief. This strategy was most notable in his work Schlingensief soon became a figure of considerable celebrity and notoriety in Germany, thanks to several popular television projects. Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany as Christoph Maria Schlingensief.

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- Entretien avec la monteuse Bettina Böhler.

Christoph Schlingensief, Director: Menu total. For a time he studied German language and literature, philosophy and art history, but dropped out of school to work as an assistant to the experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes.After making several low-budget independent films, he came to public attention with his “Germany Trilogy” (1989-92), a raucous, absurdist depiction of modern German history, replete with sex and violence, that included “100 Years of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hours in the Fuhrer’s Bunker,” “The German Chainsaw Massacre” and “Terror 2000 — Intensive Care Unit Germany.”In 1993 Mr. Schlingensief was invited to mount a stage version of “Terror 2000” at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/25schlingensief.html In 1998 he formed a political party, Chance 2000, which urged Germans to vote for themselves in the 2000 national elections.“Schlingensief was a hugely influential artist in Germany,” Tara Forrest, an editor of Christoph Maria Schlingensief was born on Oct. 24, 1960, in Oberhausen, in the industrial Ruhr valley. Although it would have been weird to me if this change didn’t happen. Courtesy of Filmgalerie 451.Christoph Schlingensief was the nightmare of the German middle class. He was not really a stage director (in spite of Bayreuth and Parsifal), he was everything: he was the artist as such.

Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany as Christoph Maria Schlingensief. Christoph Schlingensief was a celebrity in Germany, as famous as a pop star before his premature death in 2010 at the age of 49. He was a director and actor, known for Menu total (1986), 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989) and Mutters Maske (1988). One German critic summed up the production as “resolutely juvenile and unspeakably German.”In the late 1990s, Mr. Schlingensief reached a broader audience as the director and unpredictable host of the television interview show “Talk 2000,” a high-risk proposition for guests, since Mr. Schlingensief would occasionally turn on them, start talking about his personal problems or simply nod off as the cameras rolled.In “U3000,” a wilder talk-show venture, he moved frantically from car to car on the Berlin metro with camera crew in tow. Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking, politically engaged body of work. As a child he made short films with a hand-held camera, but he twice failed to gain admission to the Munich School of Film and Television. He died on August 21, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

Curator Susanne Gaensheimer reflects on the direction of the exhibition in his absence.
His death was announced by Oliver Golloch, a spokesman for the Mr. Schlingensief (pronounced SHLIN-gun-zeef), who once described his artistic program as “total irritation,” waged a tireless assault on received opinion in the arts and politics for more than two decades. There will be nobody like him.

Before his death in 2010, Christoph Schlingensief was slated to design the German Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

He was married to Aino Laberenz. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a pediatric nurse. I always thought one like him cannot die.