Films by Meinolf Schmitz

Germany 2023, 92 min
by Lucie Herrmann

A film about the love of jazz, but also about the love of the saxophone, that magical instrument. "I tell something about myself by playing and putting together sounds. That's my story," says Christof Lauer. He is one of the great jazz saxophonists in Europe, was a member of Albert Mangelsdorff's quintet and the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble. He was a soloist in the NDR Big Band in Hamburg for 25 years and has also been a soloist in the jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk since 1970.How can t

Germany 2013, 60 min
by Boris Penth

Guenter Rohrbach is a film producer in the German cinema and television world. Rohrbach has produced the internationally acclaimed ‘The Boat’, developed the crime format ‘Tatort’, produced films from the well known German satirist Loriot  and audience favorites such as ‘Schtonk’ and brought the first films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on their way. "I have always meddled" admits Günter Rohrbach, and he has constantly been committed to high quality television.  All the more critical he sees some d

Germany 2013, 60 min
by Boris Penth

The film approaches the journalist and politician Johannes Hoffmann, his time as the first prime minister of Saarland and the referendum in 1955. These years that have greatly polarized the population of Saarland, were groundbreaking for the beginnings of political Europe after the Second World War. Especially in the anniversary year of the Elysée Treaty, it is important to remember that the beginning of the Franco-German reconciliation and efforts to achieve a political Europe have also taken h

Germany 2010, 44 min
by Boris Penth

Willi Graf was a member of the ‘Weisse Rose’ and was executed in Munich on October 12th, 1943. Because of the commitment of his sister Anneliese Knoop-Graf, who was at the age of 88 during the shooting - his memory was carried on. She has imparted to young people, what resistance and moral courage was like in the time under the NS-Regime. With personal photographies, notices from his diary, historical material, a search of clues in Saarbruecken and Munich and especially because of a long - the l