Oliver Schwabe

Jakob and Manu have developed their own specific survival strategies. Without a permanent home or steady job, they live in a makeshift camp in the woods and use the municipal swimming pool when they need to shower. Always short on cash, they make a living as providers of human services. They notice what is missing in other people′s lives and make a living by satisfying others′ desires and giving them what they need or what they lack.

Lydia - filmed in the late 1970s and written down in diary sketches in 1992, the movie tells the story of the lives of Lydia and Wolfgang B. over two decades. She, translator of French literature, he, Romance studies professor. Between life crisis and "joie de vivre", full of passion and disciplined work, driven by convictions and doubts and the fear of a fatal second tumor, their film recordings and Wolfgang's diary texts fragmentary report about the beauty and the adversity of a symbiotic marriage and yet at the same time about a whole life.

Genius composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor and all round high priest of cool. Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016), the Kid from Minneapolis, had an exceptional career in pop music pushing musical and gender boundaries.

German mockumentary about the history of the techno band of the same name. Fraktus were once considered the pioneers of techno. Now, after 25 years, they are planning their big comeback. The band is supported by their manager Roger Dettner, who used a trick to get the band back together.

Beth Hart celebrates the music and voice of a woman who enriches rock and blues with emotion, authenticity, and honesty.

He went on a bender with Motörhead’s Lemmy and spend some night in jail. He was a street musician, a working class hero, a thug, a fairy and most of all a rebel – Jürgen Zeltinger is a Cologne icon. With his band he covered Lou Reed and the Ramones in the Kölsch dialect in the 80s, and his social justice anthems against the rich and powerful and for the little man are being bellowed by rowdy crowds to this day. Documentary filmmaker Oliver Schwabe accompanies the now elder statesman of Rock on tour, digs up old live footage and interviews friends and colleagues like musician Wolfgang Niedecken and actor Heiner Lauterbach. So emerges the fascinating story of the stout, bald street kid with the short fuse who would go on to influence a whole generation.

Like a Hurricane, a flood of tourists sweeps through the vacation town Seaside Heights in New Jersey every summer. For the locals, this brings financial opportunities but at the same time great frustration. A portrait of a place that is gambling away its future – and of people who are searching for meaning within it.

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical career, featuring past live perfomances by himself and cover versions of his songs by contemporary artists.

Two sixteen-year-old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship.

19-year-old Jakob lives in Cologne, sharing a flat with his brother and the latter's girlfriend, Karo, who is pregnant. He's a drifter and obsessively records his daily life on video. He films himself while masturbating, secretly observes his brother and Karo through the lens, and documents the concerts of Phillip, his friend. He gets drunk with Piet's mother, satisfies Mani on the riverbanks, scrounges money off pedestrians, breaks into a house, and together with Phillip smashes the furniture.

Frida unexpectedly falls pregnant and Felix, the father of her child, breaks up with her to reunite with his ex using methods which are absurd, exaggerated and often hilarious.

Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.

A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets people, silhouettes, strange and scary. They all end up in a dim night club.

At the age of nine, twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz from Magdeburg decide to become famous. At the age of twelve, together with Gustav Schäfer and Georg Listing, they form a band, Tokio Hotel, which conquers and polarizes the world. The success is gigantic. In their early twenties, the twins fled to Los Angeles, leaving thousands of fans and a life behind protective walls behind them. They want their freedom back and don't know how or whether things will continue.

A documentary about the famous Hamburg music club Onkel Pö.

Featuring numerous excerpts from his concerts and insights from those close to him, this documentary traces the career of the imposing singer who has sold over 100 million records.

KAPSARC - King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center - is a non-profit institution for independent research into policies that contribute to the most effective use of energy to provide social wellbeing worldwide. The Research Center is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and designed in response to the environmental conditions of this area to minimize energy and resource consumption.

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.