Jobst Knigge
Jobst Knigge is a German filmmaker, writer and documentary director.
Works
Blauer Panther
Release Date1989-01-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Nikita Khrushchev – The Red Tsar
Nikita Khrushchev was a devoted supporter of Stalin, but eventually put an end to his predecessor's regime of terror. In this documentary his family members, along with historians, bring to life his story and a piece of Soviet history.
Release Date2017-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Wie Kriege enden und Frieden möglich ist
The documentary interviews Nobel Peace Prize winners, diplomats, negotiators and former guerrilla fighters who have dedicated their lives to the task. How did their mediation successes come about and why did they fail? Peacemaking is both art and hard work.
Release Date2025-04-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Too Young to Die
Those who knew them best describe the sensational lives and premature deaths of iconic actors and musicians whose passing left a void in pop culture.
Release Date2012-07-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count8
Mildred Scheel - Die First Lady und der Kampf gegen Krebs
Release Date2015-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Drei Leben: Axel Springer
Release Date2012-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Stalin's Daughter
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father's favorite child. However, her life was overshadowed by death and violence. Her mother and brother died, family members were murdered, and her partner was exiled by Stalin. The Iron Curtain was an obstacle in her family dream. This documentary shows for the first time interviews with friends and relatives, exclusive photos and documentation, as well as the last and never broadcast interview with Alliloejeva.
Release Date2015-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
40 Jahre Aids - Schweigen = Tod
This is the story of death and survival, exclusion and hope told by those who lived through it. 40 years ago an HIV infection seemed like a death sentence.
Release Date2021-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR
With two Olympic victories, four world championship titles and six European championship titles, Katarina Witt is the most successful female athlete in the history of figure skating. She combines East German identity with international flair and is still the "most beautiful face of socialism" - and the most internationally renowned citizen of the former GDR. The film follows the path of the girl from Saxony all the way to Hollywood.
Release Date2020-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
Udo Kier was a demon, Frankenstein, murderer, lover and six times Adolf Hitler. He has starred in art films, indie classics and blockbusters. Cult directors, superstars and audiences worldwide have fallen for the Cologne native's aura and have given him an incredible career - in Europe and in Hollywood. Now the atypical international star turns 80.
Release Date2024-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bhagwan - Die Deutschen und der Guru
The film tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Indian guru Bhagwan for the first time from the perspective of his German followers. What was it about the man they called and worshiped Osho that fascinated them? And why did they give up everything in order to be able to follow their idol to India and the USA? The documentary filmmaker Jobst Knigge managed to win the trust of some sannyasin. They tell their very personal story and give a deep insight into their life with the charismatic guru in the 70s and 80s.
Release Date2020-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Nuclear Power - End of an Era?
Nuclear has always been a controversial energy source. While Germany is phasing out its nuclear power plants, France is building a new generation of nuclear reactors to keep the lights on. A look at the nuclear debate over the last few decades and what the future holds for atomic energy.
Release Date2023-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Mata Hari: The Beautiful Spy
The famous exotic dancer and courtesan Mata Hari stands for beauty and seduction. She gave herself to the most influential men of her time. In the middle of the First World War, she was executed as a spy for Germany. But one question has not been resolved for a hundred years: was she guilty? The unusual woman remains in people's fantasies to this day.
Release Date2017-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Price of Protest
United States, September 1st, 2016. American football player Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem, protesting police brutality against black people. Part of the population regards the gesture as an unacceptable affront to the flag. Later, he loses his place on his team. Today, however, he is considered by many as a true hero.
Release Date2019-08-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobCo-Director
Vote Count11
Naked
Release Date2022-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
D-Mark, Einheit, Vaterland: Das schwierige Erbe der Treuhand
1990. As part of the reunification process, the West takes charge of the harmonization project between the two territories. From the outset, all of East Germany's industrial assets were transferred to a public company, the "Treuhand," which operated for four years. This marked the beginning of a rapid privatization of the entire economy of the former GDR, comprising some 8,000 public companies employing around 4 million people who needed to be offered a new future. At the head of this gigantic public holding company, Birgit Breuel, a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), was the subject of both praise and criticism.
Release Date2019-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Lost Album of the SS
In 2016, an album containing 250 previously unseen photos of Nazi officials was discovered in the USA by Stephan Hördler, a prominent Holocaust historian, who immediately understood the album's inestimable value. The album brings together photographs of a "group of friends," all from the same region of Germany, all of whom became SS men. From 1928 to 1943, the photo album allows us to follow their journey. Hördler conducted the investigation, comparing the photos in the album with other, better-known ones, the faces of these men with those of concentration camp officials, and ultimately revealed that it was at Lichtencburg that these young men were trained, a "school" for future camp executioners, and the bonds of camaraderie and informal network that would allow them to help each other, even after the war.
Release Date2025-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Secret Teutoburg Forest
In northern Germany, the Teutoburg Forest is home to many Germanic legends. Since the end of the 19th century, the statue of Hermann – known in Latin as Arminius –, hero of the Germanic people of the Cheruscans, has watched over the vast Teutoburg Forest. Did this warlord really allow the Germans to repel the Romans two thousand years ago? A few kilometers from the statue stands an impressive rock formation called Externsteine. Have these steep cliffs kept traces of ancient Germanic civilizations?
Release Date2020-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Geist, Geschäft und Party – 75 Jahre Frankfurter Buchmesse
Release Date2023-10-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
2020: A Very Particular Year
At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people from very different latitudes, living necessarily very different situations, experience this shared solitude? How did people adapt to the restriction by decree of their personal freedoms and the transformation of many bustling metropolises into ghost cities?
Release Date2020-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Naked: Sex and Gender
Film about the gender binary. What is it, how does it manifest itself in our minds and our lives - and how can we go beyond? Just how different are “men” and “women?” Are they even two distinct groups? This film follows individuals and communities, experts and artists around the globe who right now are radically and joyfully redefining gender as we know it.
Release Date2023-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Karen Carpenter Story
Release Date2018-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1