Films by Christoph Rüter

2016, 52 min
by Christoph Rüter

They have written crime novels about an era that until now has rarely been the subject of crime fiction: the Third Reich, itself the cause of inconceivable crimes and atrocities. Dominique Manotti, Philip Kerr and Volker Kutscher have broken an unspoken German rule that the Third Reich should not be the subject of entertainment literature. The crime novel is now engaging numerous readers in a subject they would normally avoid. The film shows the three writers at work in Berlin, New York, Paris,

Germany 2011, 92 min
by Christoph Rüter

On 3 November 2001 the poet Thomas Brasch died at 56 years of age. Like virtually no other writer of his time, he balanced on a slender tightrope between the GDR and the FRG, between history and the present, between being Jewish, being German and being in the world. By relating the contradictory story of Brasch’s life and work, aided by video material shot by Brasch himself, this film creates a radical image of a seeker who was likewise in search of himself. Everything and everyone was disturbed