
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.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · as country boy #1

Rita Ritter
1984 · as Passenger

The Ghost
1982 · as Ober

Bye-Bye Bavaria!
1978 · as Dichter und Wilddieb

Beer Chase
1977 · as Herbert, Polizist

Die Föhnforscher
1985 · as Herbert

Der Depp
1982 · as Der Depp

Wohin?
1988 · as Herbert

Punch Drunk
1987

Hades
1995 · as Hades

Attwenger Film
1995 · as Self (voice)

Mixwix
1989 · as Mixwix

Heal Hitler!
1986

Das Andechser Gefühl
1975 · as Teacher

Stayover in Tirol
1974 · as Lehrer

Der Komantsche
1979 · as Komantsche Koyotendreck

Achternbusch
2008 · as Self

Der junge Mönch
1978