Films by Uli M. Schueppel

Germany 2019, 95 min
by Uli M. Schueppel

The night has its own songs. These are songs about love and hardship, about hope and bitterness, about fulfilment and disappointment; experiences caught between day and dream. Unforgotten moments of pausing, of taking a breath, of infinity solidified into a moment.In Der Atem (The Breath) Uli M Schueppel collects existential experiences of Berlin at night. People in the darkness of the city tell their personal stories of holding their breath. Theirs are stories of worries, pain, fear and happine

Germany 2012, 75 min
by Uli M. Schueppel

End of 2010, after 14 years break, Caspar Broetzmann performs again in original lineup with his band 'Caspar Broetzmann Massaker' at the legendary Berlin-club 'Berghain'. The director Uli M. Schueppel narrates around this concert the emotional (in-between) spaces, from which Caspar Brotzmann creates his powerful archaic soundscapes. Between noise and silence the film develops from within a sensitive portrait of a musician, who always consistently went his own way, without subordinating himself t

Germany 2009, 91 min
by Uli M. Schueppel

At noon on December 21st, 1989 the members of EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN – a band then hailedas West-German cult export – hit the road in West Berlin for their very first concert in East Berlin,capital of the GDR.And as yet, it is a long, unusual way from Berlin Kreuzberg to Berlin Lichtenberg, into the WilhelmPieck-Hall of the industrial plant VEB Elektrokohle. As yet there is the wall and as yet there are bordercontrols…Filmmaker Uli M Schueppel, a friend of the band, accompanied EINSTUERZE

Germany 2008
by Uli M. Schueppel

"The Day / Der Tag" tells the story about the every day occurence of death. The essay-film scetches the last day of about ten people who died in Berlin. As voice-overs, the "passers-by", or the different people close to the deceased, tell their story of that particular day from when they woke up, until the moment of death – somewhere in the city. Sometimes this moment is totally surprising, and sometimes it seems somehow forceful... Spaces become something like an intermediate world in this form