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.). His films just transcend the commercial sector; It is one of the most followed by seekers of original, stories of passes in areas interested in film culture. His anarchist surrealistic films are not known to a wide audience in Germany, although one of them, Das Gespenst (The Ghost), caused a scandal in 1983 because of its alleged blasphemous content. Werner Herzog, a director of the New German Cinema, based his film Heart of Glass on a story by Achternbusch.
Der Depp
(Der Depp)
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
(Self)
Attwenger Film
(Self (voice))
Achternbusch
(Self)
Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch
(Self)
Beer Chase
(Herbert, Polizist)
Heilt Hitler!
The Ghost
(Ober)
Das Andechser Gefühl
(Teacher)
Ich bin da, ich bin da
(Hick)
Der Komantsche
(Komantsche Koyotendreck)
Der Neger Erwin
(Der Neger Erwin)
The Atlantic Swimmers
(Herbert)
Bierbichler
(Self)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(country boy #1)
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
(Hick)
Das Kind ist tot
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
Punch Drunk
Rita Ritter
(Passenger)
Die Föhnforscher
(Herbert)
Blaue Blumen
(Narrator (voice))
Niemandsland
The Last Hole
(Der Nil)
Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand
(Hick)
Picasso in Munich
(Picasso)
Hades
(Hades)
Ab nach Tibet!
(Hick)
Wohin?
(Herbert)
Die Olympiasiegerin
(Adi)
Hick's Last Stand
Stayover in Tirol
(Lehrer)
Der junge Mönch
Mixwix
(Mixwix)
Heimat - Deine Filme
(Self)
Heart of Glass
(Writer)
Heilt Hitler!
(Writer)
Heilt Hitler!
(Producer)
Heilt Hitler!
(Cinematography)
Heilt Hitler!
(Director)
Beer Chase
(Director)
Beer Chase
(Writer)
Picasso in Munich
(Director)
Bye-Bye Bavaria!
(Director)
The Ghost
(Producer)
The Ghost
(Writer)
The Ghost
(Director)
Das Andechser Gefühl
(Director)
Ich bin da, ich bin da
(Director)
Der Komantsche
(Writer)
Der Komantsche
(Director)
Der Neger Erwin
(Director)
The Atlantic Swimmers
(Director)
Wanderkrebs
(Director)
Beer Chase
(Producer)
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
(Producer)
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
(Writer)
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
(Director)
The Last Hole
(Director)
Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand
(Director)
Hades
(Director)
Ab nach Tibet!
(Director)
Mixwix
(Writer)
Mixwix
(Producer)
Der Komantsche
(Producer)
Der Depp
(Writer)
Der Depp
(Director)
Das Kind ist tot
(Director of Photography)
6. Dezember 1971
(Writer)
Das Kind ist tot
(Producer)
Das Kind ist tot
(Writer)
6. Dezember 1971
(Producer)
6. Dezember 1971
(Director of Photography)
Das Kind ist tot
(Director)
Die Föhnforscher
(Director)
Die Föhnforscher
(Writer)
6. Dezember 1971
(Director)
Die Föhnforscher
(Producer)
Punch Drunk
(Director of Photography)
Punch Drunk
(Director)
Punch Drunk
(Production Manager)
Niemandsland
(Writer)
Punch Drunk
(Writer)
Punch Drunk
(Producer)
Niemandsland
(Director)
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
(Director of Photography)
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
(Producer)
Niemandsland
(Producer)
Blaue Blumen
(Writer)
Blaue Blumen
(Special Effects)
Rita Ritter
(Director)
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
(Director)
Blaue Blumen
(Producer)
Blaue Blumen
(Director of Photography)
Das Klatschen der einen Hand
(Writer)
Blaue Blumen
(Director)
Rita Ritter
(Producer)
Rita Ritter
(Writer)
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
(Director of Photography)
Wohin?
(Director)
Die Olympiasiegerin
(Director)
Das Andechser Gefühl
(Writer)
The Atlantic Swimmers
(Producer)
Hick's Last Stand
(Director)
Hick's Last Stand
(Writer)
The Atlantic Swimmers
(Writer)
Die Olympiasiegerin
(Writer)
Hick's Last Stand
(Cinematography)
Hick's Last Stand
(Producer)
Die Olympiasiegerin
(Producer)
Der junge Mönch
(Producer)
Der junge Mönch
(Writer)
Der junge Mönch
(Director)
Mixwix
(Director)
Picasso in Munich
(Writer)