Herbert Achternbusch

Personal Info

Birthday

November 23, 1938

Day of Death

2022-01-10

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Also Known As

Herbert Schild

Herbert Achternbusch

Biography

Writer, actor, and German filmmaker born in Munich in 1938. He spent his childhood and youth in Bavaria, region which remains until today its major source of artistic inspiration.

Their activity is very diverse: he has composed pieces for theater and radio scripts, translator, painter and sculptor. As different as his artistic activities is his work, and therefore difficult to classify. In the world of cinema, his career fits approaches independent, mostly defined by a position too personalistic, provocative, that has left a deep imprint on works eminently conceptual and avant-garde, as well as suggesting in criticism of the subjects addressed (religion, society, geographical framework in which wandering people, etc.