Christoph Schaub

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

Life

After the Matura Type B in Zurich Christoph Schaub started a German language studies, which he broke off in favor of the film world. As co-founder of the media cooperative video store Zurich, he worked as an editor, cameraman and assistant director on many projects in the 1980s. 1988 was the production company Dschoint Ventschr from which Schaub retired in 1992.

A year later he initiated with like-minded cinema Morgental in Zurich. He was co-founder of Neugass cinema AG, the cinema RiffRaff built in 1998 and the cinemas Bourbaki (2007) took over in Lucerne. He is Chairman of the Board since the beginning Neugass cinema AG. In 1996, his commitment as a freelance lecturer, inter alia, at the University of the Arts in Zurich. At the Expo 02, he leads the cinematic projects of the exhibition " ONOMA ". His comedy Sternberg, which was actually produced as a television production, reached in the theatrical marketing by Buena Vista International over 120,000 spectators. The success enabled him to 2005, the bilingual ( Swiss German / French) Jeune Homme comedy.

In 2007, Christoph Schaub in cooperation with Michael Schindhelm long-term monitoring to the National Stadium in Beijing by architects Herzog & de Meuron from. The film Bird 's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China joined the world with great interest. 2008 he made ​​his feature film Happy New Year, an episodic film that tells five stories on Christmas Eve parallel.

2009 realized Christoph Schaub comedy Julia's Disappearance from a screenplay by Martin Suter. He won among others, thus the Audience Award at the International Film Festival of Locarno. Julia's Disappearance was the most successful Swiss film of 2009.

2012 had night-time noise, co-produced by X Filme Creative Pool also premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno. Christoph Schaub is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy (EFA ).

Filmography (selection)

  • Various intervention videos, 1980-1984
  • Junior - Zurich Teddy scene in 1982, with Marcel Müller, documentary, 45 ', video
  • No time to rest - AJZ in autumn 81, 1982 Thomas Krempke, documentary, 35 ', video
  • COCOON, collective work, documentary, 12 ', video
  • Love Song 1, 1984, with Thomas Krempke, documentary, 17 ', video
  • Wendel, 1987, Feature Film, 58 ', 16 mm
  • 1992: At the end of the night feature film, 88 ', 35 mm
  • Il girasole: una casa vicino a Verona, 1995, documentary, 17 ', 35 mm
  • Rendez -vous at the zoo, 1995, documentary, 82 ', 16 mm and 35 mm
  • Lieu, Funcziun e Furma - L' architectura as P. Zumthor e Gion Caminada, 1996, documentary, 24 ', Beta SP
  • 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 Reason - Jürg Conzett 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
  • Sternberg, 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 '
  • Julia's Disappearance, 2009, Comedy, 85 '
  • Night noise, 2012 relationship drama, 94 '
Happy New Year (2008 film) Peter Zumthor Integrated Authority File
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