Christoph Schlingensief

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christoph Schlingensief
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 24, 1960(1960-10-24)
Age	64
Date Of Death	August 21, 2010, Berlin, Germany
Birthplace	Oberhausen
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Scorpio

Christoph Schlingensief Biography

Christoph Schlingensief is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany.

Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960 – 21 August 2010) was a German theatre director, performance artist and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a Regietheater artist. He posthumously won the Golden Lion for Germany in 2011 at the Venice Biennale for the best national pavilion, which was turned into an installative replica of the stage design for his autobiographical play A Church of Fear VS. the Alien Within, alluding to his cancer illness.

Having passed his Abitur exams, he twice failed to gain admission to the University of Television and Film Munich. From 1981 he studied German language and literature, philosophy and art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, but also dabbled as a musician and finally dropped out in 1983 to work as an assistant to the experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. After working as a teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he became a production manager on Hans W. Geißendörfer’s TV series Lindenstraße.

Christoph Schlingensief Net Worth

Christoph Schlingensief is one of the richest Director from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christoph Schlingensief 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Schlingensief was born on 24 October 1960 in Oberhausen. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a pediatric nurse. As a child, he worked as an altar server and already made short films with a hand-held camera.

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In 2004, at the invitation of Wolfgang and Katharina Wagner and to rave reviews, he staged Richard Wagner’s Parsifal for the Bayreuth Festival. When he accepted the Wagner family’s invitation, it caused surprise because of his iconoclasm and his well-known aversion to all things tainted by association with Hitler; however, he had been invited to the festival before in 1991. Film clips and costumes focused the action on the conflict between Christianity and Islam. The production, in the first years conducted by Pierre Boulez, was revived in 2005 and 2006, but unlike other Bayreuth Festival stagings it was not filmed. Christian Kracht would later describe “the likes of Wolfgang Wagner” as “bourgeois & enemy to Christoph Schlingensief.”

Facts & Trivia

Conrad Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Christoph Schlingensief celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.

In 2009, he joined the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival under Tilda Swinton.