Films by Oliver Göbel

Germany 2021, 217 min
by Maria Speth

MR. BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS is an intimate documentary portraying the bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in.Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home. Aged

Germany 2009, 45 min
by Oliver Göbel

A precise documentary in which lobbyists are let to explain themselves. A conflicting experience for every viewer since.Political decisions are massively influenced by lobbyists. That's nothing new. But within the last years lobbyism has become a presentableprofession.In this documentary leading German lobbyists are let to explain themselveshow they actually work, how they succeed, how much power is really givento them, how they legitimize their work and where the limits of their power are or sh