Klaus Wildenhahn

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

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A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

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Documentary about a steelworker strike on New Year's Eve 1978/79.

Second bandoneon film by Klaus Wildenhahn.

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

The two-part documentary introduced people in the villages and less populated areas of the Federal Republic. The prevailing structures, worries, hardships and hopes were shown - a portrait of the 1970s.

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A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

No synopsis available yet.

Documentary about a steelworker strike on New Year's Eve 1978/79.

Second bandoneon film by Klaus Wildenhahn.

Second bandoneon film by Klaus Wildenhahn.

Jazz and its milieu. Klaus Wildenhahn films the Jimmy Smith Trio in New York. With the addition of a white guitarist, Kenny Burrell, the band is in the studio recording the Rolling Stones current hit “Satisfaction”, as a tribute to the successful British Beat musicians, who were themselves inspired by blues and jazz.

Jazz and its milieu. Klaus Wildenhahn films the Jimmy Smith Trio in New York. With the addition of a white guitarist, Kenny Burrell, the band is in the studio recording the Rolling Stones current hit “Satisfaction”, as a tribute to the successful British Beat musicians, who were themselves inspired by blues and jazz.

Impressions of a party congress of the German social democrat party (SPD) in 1964, featuring politicians Max Brauer, Fritz Erler and Willy Brandt.

Klaus Wildenhahn, a native of Bonn, takes a personal and slightly wistful look behind the scenes of the government's move from Bonn to Berlin and bids farewell to the comparatively modest “federal village.” He is not interested in the political celebrities, who, unlike in the television reports produced at the same time, serve only as background noise, but in the everyday lives of the small employees, parliamentary servants, chauffeurs, and waiters.

Klaus Wildenhahn, a native of Bonn, takes a personal and slightly wistful look behind the scenes of the government's move from Bonn to Berlin and bids farewell to the comparatively modest “federal village.” He is not interested in the political celebrities, who, unlike in the television reports produced at the same time, serve only as background noise, but in the everyday lives of the small employees, parliamentary servants, chauffeurs, and waiters.

An account of the first European tour of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith and his trio in 1965, replete with backstage footage and music.

An account of the first European tour of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith and his trio in 1965, replete with backstage footage and music.

A documentary about the 1892 cholera outbreak in Hamburg.

A documentary about the 1892 cholera outbreak in Hamburg.

A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

A portrait of the writer and former miner Günter Westerhoff

A portrait of the writer and former miner Günter Westerhoff

In her former life, Johanna K. worked as a civil engineer – Mr Kamermans – in Holland, building dykes and roads. Then she discovered her love of beautiful clothes and cabaret, and found her calling as a dancer. Pleasantly, calmly, and with admirable thoughtfulness, she recounts various stages of her eventful life between St. Pauli and Ibiza, between her own gender identity and social constraints and expectations.

Behind the scenes look at the preparations for the last two editions of Dietmar Schönherr's Talkshow.

Behind the scenes look at the preparations for the last two editions of Dietmar Schönherr's Talkshow.

Klaus Wildenhahn portraits workers and engineers restoring the Dresden Castle in the summer of 1990.

Klaus Wildenhahn portraits workers and engineers restoring the Dresden Castle in the summer of 1990.

Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time trying to place Bausch in a context outside of the aesthetic. Still, the dance company's daily life and the excruciating rehearsal and performance schedule is solidly captured. The film begins cleverly: a dance critic offers sagacious comments on ballet dancers finishing their careers at mid-thirty just when, according to Bausch, the "aspects of misery, suffering and fear of death should become an integral part of a dancer's spiritual and psychological make-up." Wildenhahn's camera glides over the dancers' bodies as Bausch leads them through their paces, a consummate teacher. Leaving behind rehearsals of "Bandoneón" and "Walzer," Wildenhahn then ventures out into the streets of Wuppertal searching for the dance of the common people.

Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time trying to place Bausch in a context outside of the aesthetic. Still, the dance company's daily life and the excruciating rehearsal and performance schedule is solidly captured. The film begins cleverly: a dance critic offers sagacious comments on ballet dancers finishing their careers at mid-thirty just when, according to Bausch, the "aspects of misery, suffering and fear of death should become an integral part of a dancer's spiritual and psychological make-up." Wildenhahn's camera glides over the dancers' bodies as Bausch leads them through their paces, a consummate teacher. Leaving behind rehearsals of "Bandoneón" and "Walzer," Wildenhahn then ventures out into the streets of Wuppertal searching for the dance of the common people.

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A church congregation in Hamburg-Harburg: Klaus Wildenhahn observes the work of a pastor. What is his job? What is expected of him? What does he himself want?

A church congregation in Hamburg-Harburg: Klaus Wildenhahn observes the work of a pastor. What is his job? What is expected of him? What does he himself want?

Workers in the northern German province build a silo.

Workers in the northern German province build a silo.

This documentary brings together literary quotations, landscape photos, conversations with former farm workers, and memories of the concentration camps in Emsland.

This documentary brings together literary quotations, landscape photos, conversations with former farm workers, and memories of the concentration camps in Emsland.

Short version of Wildenhahn's own 1971 three-part film "Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923".

Short version of Wildenhahn's own 1971 three-part film "Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923".

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.