
Directing
Klaus Lemke
Born — Died
1940-10-13 — 2022-07-07
Place of birth
Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany
Known for
Directing
Credits
88 titles
Known for
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
7.3Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
Der Fahnder
1984
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Okay S.I.R.
1973
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
6.5Lucius Glantz, a veteran hotel manager in Vienna, fights to save his beloved establishment from a scheming realtor's plan to demolish it, leading to a clash of wills that even affects the hotel's renowned soufflé recipe.
The Souffleur
2026
NRA spirit of optimism, structural change, emancipation: by showing excerpts from his films such as LIEBE, SO SCHÖN WIEBE (1971), SYLVIE (1973), IDOLE (1976) and AMORE (1978), Klaus Lemke tells his story of the decade, now half a century ago, that was so formative for Munich, with sentences such as: "Back then, we all thought life was eating out of our hands, then in the '80s we became fodder ourselves."
Champagner für die Augen - Gift für den Rest
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hustler
2022
9.0»I’d prefer to be the film myself than just the director«: with Klaus Lemke, the boundaries between life and screen are fluid. For more than 50 years he has made films on low budgets using amateur actors without a screenplay. His cinema is brutal and impulsive, every film a slap in the face for the staid productions of the mainstream. In Bad Boy Lemke, he brings unfinished projects to an end and reflects on his body of work – of course à la Lemke: radical, confusing and powerful.
Bad Boy Lemke
2020
2010s · 6 titles
6.0A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."
Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films
2017
8.0An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.
Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films
2016
5.0All about casting. And about Lemke. And orgasms through thought transference. Plus: All about financing non-government movies.
Making Judith
2017
4.5In the 1970s, the Munich Group set about revolutionizing German film with low budgets and an excess of creativity. The Bungalow bar next to the Türkendolch theater was their meeting place, who were inspired by the French New Wave and New Hollywood. Munich Group star Iris Berben takes us on a journey back through time, a wild trip full of film clips and interviews with major figures of an unforgettable era.
Show What You Love
2016
NRTini would like to be a writer, but unfortunately she doesn't have the talent. At least she finds a supposed bestselling author on Fuerteventura, for whom she is merely a means to an artistic end.
3 Kreuze für einen Bestseller
2011
5.2On the run from her ex-lover, Judith hides in the toilet at the Munich Art Academy. In the basement. She wants to hijack the snobbish art scene with a scandal video.
New Gods Outta Munich
2019
2000s · 6 titles
7.0Two young women kidnap the manager of the German telephone provider and start making strange demands while getting to know their captive a little better
Die Quereinsteigerinnen
2005
9.0A gang of film and sex addicts steal the camera, cast and story for their first movie.
Running Out of Cool
2002
9.0Klaus Lemke steps out of the door of his Munich apartment and stands on Leopoldstrasse, where he has “lived” for many years. His documentary film is an avowedly gaudy declaration of love for Schwabinger Strasse, the people who live there and their realistic language.
Die Leopoldstraße Kills Me
2001
6.0Charming but scheming "Colonel" Monk arrives to Ibiza in search of his missing son. He spends most of his time talking with his son's girlfriends and it turns out that the son might not actually want to be found.
Undercover Ibiza
2007
7.0What happens when you fly to Goa to capture the crazy reality of the “enlightenment industry and drug use” in a documentary? The result can only be one thing...
Never Go to Goa
2002
NRThe Nightingale of Ramersdorf is one of the most dazzling but also the most tragic figures of the German neighborhood scene. What began in the Munich chic of the 70s led to the sad life as Tingel-Chansonnier in Berlin through various supporting roles in films by Rosa von Praunheim. The quarrelsome artist never had a loyal fan base. But all the more people talk about him in the pubs, where he was accompanied by a ghetto blaster who was hated by the often involuntary audience. Because in truth there is usually nothing better to tell. Meanwhile, the nightingale of Ramersdorf is impoverished, a care case and almost blind. But she was left with the unmistakable voice and the memories of her own time.
Die Nachtigall von Ramersdorf
2000
1980s · 4 titles
3.4Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she meets all kinds of stars like Falco, Meat Loaf, Die Toten Hosen and Pia Zadora and of course the presenter Ingolf Lück. The result is a colorful mix-up and the question arises as to whether Tina can make her dream come true.
Feel the Motion
1985
7.0Markus, 16, goes to the city where his big brother Mischa will show him the ropes. But Mischa has gambled away his money, leading to theft and deeper troubles. Markus must take revenge.
The Little One
1983
9.0Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father escapes reality into an affair with his secretary while her mother reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.
Das Wunder
1985
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, and many others.
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980
1970s · 9 titles
6.5Cleo is a barmaid at Munich's top disco "Sugar Shake". She definitely thinks she's the first prize at any erotic lottery - and she has a heart, too.
Der Allerletzte
1979
5.7Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
1971
7.7A young drifter falls in love with a model.
Mein schönes kurzes Leben
1970
7.3Fashion model Sylvie falls asleep drunk in the cab of Munich taxi driver Paul, and an impossible love affair beckons.
Sylvie
1973
4.4A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She wears only an orange jumpsuit and wants to go to Washington. Playboy Charly first takes her to Lake Starnberg, where she meets best-selling author Evers. He immediately leaves his wife and travels with Francesca to Spain, where he negotiates a project with the American film producer Polonsky. No one remains unimpressed by the mysterious beauty. Supergirl remains elusive— she quickly disappears again, leaving behind a warning to the inhabitants of Earth that an attack from outer space is imminent...
Supergirl
1971
7.0Short film by Martin Müller
Die Geschäftsfreunde
1970
Jones is called in when others want to kill. Jones works quickly, precisely, successfully. His clients pay the price he demands without question—the lone killer can be relied upon. Jones arrives in the city on the early train. He looks exhausted. He will need this day to take care of the boss of Warner-Trans. Alexander Scrooge provides him with the necessary information. Everything else is routine: observing the victim, determining the angle of the shot at the scene of the crime, preparing the alibi. When he is about to kill, the unexpected happens. The Warner boss is on his guard. Has the middleman Alexander betrayed the assignment? Is the client Franketti playing a dirty game? Or is Abraham, the big boss whom Franketti can't compete with, pulling the strings? Jones was used to clean work. Now he's caught between two gangs. Jane, a beautiful young woman, decides his fate.
Eine Rose für Jane
1970
7.5Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfriend, and a short time later he marries someone else. The slacker Rolf enters Sylvie's life and together they decide to form a circus group with their friends, mostly untalented petty crooks, and move to the provinces.
Liebe, so schön wie Liebe
1972
NRTwo men and a woman drive towards a strange ceremony.
Für Cecile - an der Westküste wartend
1973
1960s · 11 titles
A woman decides that her boyfriend has to marry her.
Die Kapitulation
1967
NREveryday life in a commune near Munich in the spring of 1969
Anatahan, Anatahan
1969
5.6A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
48 Hours to Acapulco
1967
6.2Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can change the world with words alone, she plans a militant action: as a protest against the Vietnam War, she plants a bomb in a Cologne department store to force the public into a debate.
Brandstifter
1969
18 year-old Sabine wants to lose her virginity in order to win back her ex-boyfriend Klaus. She asks her extremely shy classmate Martin for help.
Sabine 18
1967
8.0A film critic falls in love.
Frühstück in Rom
1965
6.5In a future world devoid of men, three young women order two men to come to them and ask them which of them they would prefer.
Galaxy
1967
NRDocumentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965
10.0T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he finally finds the address. There, he finds out that he has delivered his own judgment.
The Letter
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Ein anständiges Mädchen
1968
9.0A man bored with his wife goes to the Munich Oktoberfest. He meets a pregnant student who discusses the problems of bourgeois marriage with him and finally returns home disappointed.
Die Versöhnung
1965
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
6.2Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
7.3Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.
Der Fahnder
1984
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Okay S.I.R.
1973
A miniseries about a scientific project trying to develop and exploit efficient solar power. The group members have the normal family and funding problems to concern them. But more sinisterly, they have to contend with energy companies who need them to fail and are too happy to help them along their way, mysterious business concerns who want to pump money into the project but for unknown or dubious reasons, and, worst, terrorists and murder attempts.
Das Sahara-Projekt
1993
Behind the camera
4.2Petrol station owner Karin is angry. Not only are constantly rising gas prices spoiling her good mood. Her boyfriend, car enthusiast Wolfgang, is also constantly cheating on her. Now she's had enough. With her friend and Wolfgang's last lover, Christl, she sets off for London to pick up an oil sheikh.
Arabian Nights
1979
4.2Petrol station owner Karin is angry. Not only are constantly rising gas prices spoiling her good mood. Her boyfriend, car enthusiast Wolfgang, is also constantly cheating on her. Now she's had enough. With her friend and Wolfgang's last lover, Christl, she sets off for London to pick up an oil sheikh.
Arabian Nights
1979
2.7Two women are at the center of the film: Mela is an artist, Leila sees herself as a self-confident nymphomaniac and occasionally forgets to collect her fee from her clients. Her male counterpart Henning is a gallant, albeit loud-mouthed, chatterbox. An exciting and tempestuous ménage-à-trois develops between them - in the middle of Munich.
Unterwäschelügen
2016
2.7Two women are at the center of the film: Mela is an artist, Leila sees herself as a self-confident nymphomaniac and occasionally forgets to collect her fee from her clients. Her male counterpart Henning is a gallant, albeit loud-mouthed, chatterbox. An exciting and tempestuous ménage-à-trois develops between them - in the middle of Munich.
Unterwäschelügen
2016
2.7Two women are at the center of the film: Mela is an artist, Leila sees herself as a self-confident nymphomaniac and occasionally forgets to collect her fee from her clients. Her male counterpart Henning is a gallant, albeit loud-mouthed, chatterbox. An exciting and tempestuous ménage-à-trois develops between them - in the middle of Munich.
Unterwäschelügen
2016
4.9The wife of a jet-set millionaire takes a holiday in Berlin and poses for racy photographs. These are stolen, a man is killed, and she decamps to the French Riviera with a different photographer, who may also now be in danger.
Negresco
1968
4.9The wife of a jet-set millionaire takes a holiday in Berlin and poses for racy photographs. These are stolen, a man is killed, and she decamps to the French Riviera with a different photographer, who may also now be in danger.
Negresco
1968
3.2The bittersweet love story between a 26-year-old actress at the beginning of her career and a 21-year-old call girl at the end of her marriage, set during the world cup 2006.
Finale
2007
3.2The bittersweet love story between a 26-year-old actress at the beginning of her career and a 21-year-old call girl at the end of her marriage, set during the world cup 2006.
Finale
2007
6.5Cleo is a barmaid at Munich's top disco "Sugar Shake". She definitely thinks she's the first prize at any erotic lottery - and she has a heart, too.
Der Allerletzte
1979
6.5Cleo is a barmaid at Munich's top disco "Sugar Shake". She definitely thinks she's the first prize at any erotic lottery - and she has a heart, too.
Der Allerletzte
1979
7.0Markus, 16, goes to the city where his big brother Mischa will show him the ropes. But Mischa has gambled away his money, leading to theft and deeper troubles. Markus must take revenge.
The Little One
1983
7.0Markus, 16, goes to the city where his big brother Mischa will show him the ropes. But Mischa has gambled away his money, leading to theft and deeper troubles. Markus must take revenge.
The Little One
1983
9.0A gang of film and sex addicts steal the camera, cast and story for their first movie.
Running Out of Cool
2002
9.0A gang of film and sex addicts steal the camera, cast and story for their first movie.
Running Out of Cool
2002
7.5In this action film, a young couple is invited to his boss’ house. On the way, he gets out for a cigarette and she takes the wheel and speeds off. He hails a cab and pursues her through night-time Munich. The chase takes him through back courtyards, malls, night clubs and bars. At the end of the duel, she’s the clear victor.
Duell
1966
7.5In this action film, a young couple is invited to his boss’ house. On the way, he gets out for a cigarette and she takes the wheel and speeds off. He hails a cab and pursues her through night-time Munich. The chase takes him through back courtyards, malls, night clubs and bars. At the end of the duel, she’s the clear victor.
Duell
1966
10.0Actually Wolfgang and Cleo are the ideal couple. Nevertheless, the scraps always fly when they are together for a long time. After the last big fight, they finally split up. Unfortunately, both start their new lives in Las Vegas.
Das Flittchen und der Totengräber
1995
10.0Actually Wolfgang and Cleo are the ideal couple. Nevertheless, the scraps always fly when they are together for a long time. After the last big fight, they finally split up. Unfortunately, both start their new lives in Las Vegas.
Das Flittchen und der Totengräber
1995
8.0Customs officers Katti and Wolfgang are so deeply in love with each other that they are barely aware of their surroundings. But after the wedding reception, there's nothing but trouble.
Flitterwochen
1980
8.0Customs officers Katti and Wolfgang are so deeply in love with each other that they are barely aware of their surroundings. But after the wedding reception, there's nothing but trouble.
Flitterwochen
1980
6.7The inconspicuous greengrocer's daughter Maria had to watch as the adored Italian Pietro broke her best friend's heart. Dressed up as a vamp, the vengeful Maria now sets a cunning trap for the attractive Papagallo. Maria is the daughter of a small German fruit and vegetable dealer, Pietro is the son of a large Italian fruit and vegetable dealer. Both live in Munich and both meet every morning at six o'clock in the Grossmarkthalle. Maria looks inconspicuous, while Pietro looks extremely attractive. Maria is hardly interested in men, whereas Pietro is interested in all girls. Maria doesn't care until Pietro first seduces Maria's best friend and then leaves her unhappy. Now Maria starts a campaign of revenge against the light-footed Casanova, in the name of her best friend and in the name of all the girls who have been seduced by Pietro. Maria lures Pietro, who is now madly in love with her, to his native Italy, where Pietro, blinded by love and jealousy, proposes to Maria.
Amore
1978
6.7The inconspicuous greengrocer's daughter Maria had to watch as the adored Italian Pietro broke her best friend's heart. Dressed up as a vamp, the vengeful Maria now sets a cunning trap for the attractive Papagallo. Maria is the daughter of a small German fruit and vegetable dealer, Pietro is the son of a large Italian fruit and vegetable dealer. Both live in Munich and both meet every morning at six o'clock in the Grossmarkthalle. Maria looks inconspicuous, while Pietro looks extremely attractive. Maria is hardly interested in men, whereas Pietro is interested in all girls. Maria doesn't care until Pietro first seduces Maria's best friend and then leaves her unhappy. Now Maria starts a campaign of revenge against the light-footed Casanova, in the name of her best friend and in the name of all the girls who have been seduced by Pietro. Maria lures Pietro, who is now madly in love with her, to his native Italy, where Pietro, blinded by love and jealousy, proposes to Maria.
Amore
1978
7.7A young drifter falls in love with a model.
Mein schönes kurzes Leben
1970
7.7A young drifter falls in love with a model.
Mein schönes kurzes Leben
1970
NRThe film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than its predecessors. After a stop at the Bayrischer Hof, it moves into the Glockenbachviertel, over the Reichenbachbrücke to the Isar, further into the suburbs. These places are not alien to residents of Munich or tourists, but Lemke knows no tour guide romance. He has the usual group of main characters, two or three girls, a young man, and sends them off as if on a great expedition. They bring along the Lemkestyle, which doesn't fit in anywhere, but works like a contrast medium. Their fantasy figures make the reality around them more real.
A Callgirl for Ghosts
2020
NRThe film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than its predecessors. After a stop at the Bayrischer Hof, it moves into the Glockenbachviertel, over the Reichenbachbrücke to the Isar, further into the suburbs. These places are not alien to residents of Munich or tourists, but Lemke knows no tour guide romance. He has the usual group of main characters, two or three girls, a young man, and sends them off as if on a great expedition. They bring along the Lemkestyle, which doesn't fit in anywhere, but works like a contrast medium. Their fantasy figures make the reality around them more real.
A Callgirl for Ghosts
2020
NRThe film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than its predecessors. After a stop at the Bayrischer Hof, it moves into the Glockenbachviertel, over the Reichenbachbrücke to the Isar, further into the suburbs. These places are not alien to residents of Munich or tourists, but Lemke knows no tour guide romance. He has the usual group of main characters, two or three girls, a young man, and sends them off as if on a great expedition. They bring along the Lemkestyle, which doesn't fit in anywhere, but works like a contrast medium. Their fantasy figures make the reality around them more real.
A Callgirl for Ghosts
2020
8.0Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the side of his superiors, so they transfer him from the provinces to Munich without further ado. Overwhelmed by the big city, Bielek no longer collects a single mark and is sent to Berlin for further training.
Wie die Weltmeister
1981
8.0Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the side of his superiors, so they transfer him from the provinces to Munich without further ado. Overwhelmed by the big city, Bielek no longer collects a single mark and is sent to Berlin for further training.
Wie die Weltmeister
1981
7.1A film about five young people who are new to the metropolis of Berlin, their dissolute lives and the pitfalls of interpersonal relationships. One young woman ditches her boyfriend for an Italian lover as soon as they arrive from Hamburg - but he has another woman on the hook who is not yet completely finished with her ex-boyfriend.
Berlin für Helden
2012
7.1A film about five young people who are new to the metropolis of Berlin, their dissolute lives and the pitfalls of interpersonal relationships. One young woman ditches her boyfriend for an Italian lover as soon as they arrive from Hamburg - but he has another woman on the hook who is not yet completely finished with her ex-boyfriend.
Berlin für Helden
2012
7.5Hans-Jürgen is seventeen. He has cracked cars and machines to impress his girlfriend. That has him a youth penalty of several months registered.
Teenagerliebe
1975
7.5Hans-Jürgen is seventeen. He has cracked cars and machines to impress his girlfriend. That has him a youth penalty of several months registered.
Teenagerliebe
1975
10.0A young girl hitches a ride in a car with a man. In front of and in an abandoned house, the man tries to approach the girl...
Ein Haus am Meer
1966
10.0A young girl hitches a ride in a car with a man. In front of and in an abandoned house, the man tries to approach the girl...
Ein Haus am Meer
1966
7.5A young couple in Munich, Tom and Sabine, play around all day. But the girl, a model, would rather travel the world. He, on the other hand, is the absolute gamer type.
Henker Tom
1966
7.5A young couple in Munich, Tom and Sabine, play around all day. But the girl, a model, would rather travel the world. He, on the other hand, is the absolute gamer type.
Henker Tom
1966
6.1In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a two thugs.
Rocker
1972
6.1In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a two thugs.
Rocker
1972
