Christian Bau Movies

Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the...

The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures,...

From the neighborhood to the suburbs. The Steffen family moves from a rental apartment in St. Pauli to their own home in Allermöhe. Farewell to...

Three police officers are visiting the construction site of their new guard. The citizen-oriented official shows destroyed glass tiles at the back of...

Allermöhe is being built on the outskirts of Hamburg, on the outskirts of Allermöhe a small garden settlement is being built. New beginning...

An approach from the outside: the highway, the cows, the construction sites, the skeptical press reports, the police on site, the interior senator, a...

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg...

Film about the Hamburg district of Ottensen and the resistance of the residents against the planned renovation. It was shot from 1972 to 1975.

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to...

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.