Christof Wackernagel

  • 1951 Born in Ulm, Germany
  • 1962 – 1969 Classical high-school in Munich
  • 1967 – 1977 Actor; (main-)parts in several cinema-films and tv-productions
  • 1971 – 1977 Member of a multi-media group in Stuttgart (printing, edition of books, music-production, experimental film and video)
  • 1977 Participant of the West-German urban guerilla group “Red Army Fraction” (RAF), after a shooting party in Amsterdam imprisoned until 1987
  • since 1987 Professional work as actor in cinema-films and tv-productions
  • Free-lance author
  • Painter

Lives and works in Bamako/Mali and Munich/Germany.

Film-parts (selection)

  • Cinema: Das schreckliche Mädchen, Ein Mann für jede Tonart, Der bewegte Mann, Männerpension, Der Eisbär, Kai Rabe, Der grosse Bagarozy, Lammbock
  • TV-Series: Bärenbach, Katrin ist die Beste, Die Biester, Abschnitt 40.

Writings (selection)

  • Fiction: “Nadja. Erzählungen und Fragmente”, 1984 (short stories), “Bilder einer Ausstellung”, 1986 (stories), “Gadhafi läßt bitten”, 2002 (novelette), “es – Traumtrilogie” 2011, “reden statt schiessen” 2013, “RAF oder Hollywood” 2017
  • Theatre: “Der endliche Sieg” – theatre-piece (1990),  Staatstheater Kassel; “Dimitroffs Prozess” – theatre-piece (1994), Schauspielhaus Bochum. Radio-fiction: “Das Mörsenbroicher Ei” (1988), “Der blinde Fleck” (1993). Radio-documentary: “The water-wheels of Hama” – sculpure of sounds (1996). “Politics of the Dream – Dream as a Work of Art, Key to Utopia”, 2020, “Dream logs – 1978-2020” 2500 pages, 2020

Paintings

Exhibitions in Bochum, München and Hamburg (Germany), Damascus (Syria) and Bamako (Mali).