Christoph Schaub

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Christoph Schaub (* 1958 in Zurich ) is a Swiss film author, documentary and film director .

Life

After graduating from the Matura Type B in Zurich, Christoph Schaub began studying German , which he broke off in favor of the film world. As a co-founder of the media cooperative Videoladen Zürich , he worked as a film editor , cameraman and assistant director on many projects in the 1980s. In 1988 the production company Dschoint Ventschr was established , from which Schaub withdrew in 1992. A year later he initiated the Morgental cinema in Zurich with like-minded people. He was a co-founder of Neugass Kino AG, which built the RiffRaff cinema in 1998 and took over the Bourbaki cinema (2007) in Lucerne. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2018. 1996 began his engagement as a freelance lecturer u. a. at the University of the Arts in Zurich. At Expo 02 he is in charge of the film projects for the “ONOMA” exhibition. In 2018, the 53rd Solothurn Film Festival will dedicate the “Rencontre” to director Christoph Schaub. With almost thirty feature and documentary films, the man from Zurich has been one of the defining figures in Swiss film for decades.

His first feature film, Wendel , was critically acclaimed in 1987 and Thirty Years was selected in the competition at the Locarno International Festival . With his third feature film At the End of the Night , he was invited to the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes . Silent love is the prelude to a work aimed at a larger audience. His film comedy Sternenberg , which was actually produced as a television production in 2004, reached over 120,000 viewers in theatrical marketing through Buena Vista International . The success enabled him in 2005 the bilingual (Swiss German / French) comedy Jeune Homme . His feature film Happy New Year followed in 2008 , an episode film that tells five stories in parallel on Christmas Eve. In 2009 Christoph Schaub realized the comedy Giulia's Disappearance based on a script by Martin Suter and the main actors Corinna Harfouch and Bruno Ganz . He won thereby u. a. the audience award at the Locarno International Film Festival . Giulia's Disappearance was the most successful Swiss film in 2009. In 2012 Nachtlärm , a co-production with X Films Creative Pool, also premiered on the Piazza Grande in Locarno.

From the mid-1990s, Schaub made documentaries about architecture. He developed the first architecture film Il girasole: una casa vicino a Verona with an architect friend. Further films about architecture and buildings are made by Peter Zumthor , Gion A. Caminada , Santiago Calatrava , Herzog & de Meuron, among others . When it comes to architecture, Christoph Schaub drives the challenge of staging the space in such a way that it experiences a narrative interpretation. In 2008 Christoph Schaub, in collaboration with Michael Schindhelm, completed the long-term observation of the National Stadium in Beijing by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The film Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China met with great interest worldwide. In Architecture of Infinity, Schaub explores the magic of sacred spaces together with the architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Märkli and Alvaro Siza Vieira , the artists James Turrell and Cristina Iglesias and the drummer Jojo Mayer . He won the Prix Du Meilleur Film at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art / 38e FIFA / 2020.

Christoph Schaub worked on the board of trustees of Swiss Films and the Zürcher Filmstiftung . He is a member of the Swiss Film Academy , the European Film Academy (EFA) and the Asian Pacific Screen Academy (APSA) .

Filmography (selection)

  • Various intervention videos, 1980–1984
  • Youngsters - Zurich teddy scene , 1982, with Marcel Müller, documentary, 45 ', video
  • No time to rest - AJZ in autumn 81 , 1982 with Thomas Krempke, documentary, 35 ', video
  • COCOON , collective work, documentary, 12 ', video
  • 1 Lovesong , 1984, with Thomas Krempke, documentary, 17 ', video
  • Wendel , 1987, feature film, 58 ', 16 mm
  • Thirty Years , 1989, feature film, 88 ', 35 mm
  • At the end of the night , 1992, feature film, 88 ', 35 mm
  • Il girasole: una casa vicino a Verona , 1995, documentary film, 17 ', 35 mm
  • Rendez-vous im Zoo , 1995, documentary, 82 ', 16 mm and 35 mm
  • Lieu, Funcziun e furma - L'architectura da P. Zumthor e Gion Caminada , 1996, documentary, 24 ', Beta-SP
  • Cotgla alva - White Coal , 1997, documentary, 24 ', TV
  • Just like that, 1997, short film (part of the feature film Blind Date ), 13 ', 35 mm
  • Il project Vrin - The Vrin Project , 1999, documentary, 48 ', Beta-SP
  • The Travels of Santiago Calatrava , 1999, documentary, 77 ', 35 mm
  • The art of justification - Jürg Conzett Dipl.-Ing. , 2001, portrait, 15 ', TV
  • The change of meanings - Architects Meili, Peter , 2001, portrait, 15 ', TV
  • Silent love , 2001, feature film, 90 '
  • The second horizon , 2002, documentary, 48 ', TV
  • Sternenberg , 2004, feature film, 88 '
  • Jeune Homme , 2006, feature film, 98 ', 35 mm
  • Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China , 2008, documentary, 87 '
  • Happy New Year , 2008, drama, 94 '
  • Giulia's Disappearance , 2009, comedy, 85 '
  • Night noise , 2012, relationship drama, 94 '
  • Millions can Walk , 2014, documentary, 91 '
  • Stöffitown , 2015, drama, 91 '
  • Amur senza fin , 2018, comedy, 90 '
  • Architecture of Infinity , 2018, documentary, 85 '

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personal data
SURNAME Schaub, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich