Joachim Bauer

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

Shy medical student Milla stumbles across a medieval manuscript from the time of the witch hunts while researching for a presentation: The Bible of Blood. Together with three fellow students, she starts experimenting with the text - with extremely deadly consequences: Because "The Bible of Blood" actually seems to have the power to make her most secret wishes come true. But they have also unleashed a dark power. The inconspicuous students become sex-obsessed beasts who will walk over dead bodies...

The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

1923 - inflation presents Bavaria's citizens with major challenges. Even farmer Jackl and his daughter Evi don't know how to make a living. When a visitor turns up and claims the Spanner family's property for himself on the basis of a long-forgotten promissory bill, good advice is expensive.

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

Idomeneus, King of Crete, one of the great heroes during the total destruction of the famous city of Troy was sailing back to his realm when a terrible storm broke loose near the city of Sidon. The storm was of such violence that in his fear Idomeneus made a solemn promise to Neptune, God of the Seas, to sacrifice the first person -no matter who it be- that he would meet on the shore if he and his people would only get there safely.

If a territorial reform hadn't forced Oberzwickelbach and Unterzwickelbach to have a joint mayor and thus triggered a veritable war between the villages, landlady Anni Schwirbler wouldn't be so annoyed that her customers aren't coming. Her "Zwickel" - as Anni's pub is called - is located right on the border between two village breweries that have been at loggerheads for years.

La morte d’Isotta is a passionate melodrama inspired by Richard Wagner and Comte de Lautréamont, with Schroeter appearing in a principal role.

A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regulations, Johannes likes to do things his own way.

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.