Knut Hoffmeister
Directing
Biography
Knut Hoffmeister is a German experimental filmmaker and web developer. After his exam at the Walther Rathenau-skolan in Berlin-Grunewald he applied to the dffb, The German Film & Television Academy in Berlin. His application was rejected. Instead he worked as a taxi driver and assisted the multi-artist Martin Kippenberger. Hoffmeister publish his videos and films on the YouTube channel Notref/rflxe.
Known For
By the end of the seventies Tanzclub Dschungel moved from Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg to Nürnberger Straße, Berlin Schöneberg/Charlottenburg. A more glamorous venue.Tanzclub Dschungel at Nürnberger Straße, Berlin Schöneberg/ Charlottenburg was the place in Berlin. A relative of Studio 54 in NYC. But much more. Ask Nick Cave, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Zazie de Paris, Mick Jagger, Prince, Grace Jones, Blixa Bargeld, Depeche Mode, Liza Minnelli, Iggy Pop, Bette Midler, Boy George, Sylvester Stallone, Hildegard Knef, David Hemmings, Michel Foucault, Claude Brasseur, Robert Mapplethorpe or Barbra Streisand.
Dschungel Berlin 1986
Frank, a perpetual loser from the "milieu", runs over a pedestrian during an argument with his lover Sabine and commits a hit-and-run. A petty criminal and friend of the dead man, to whom he has confessed his crime, hires him as a "bill collector" and charges him with a murder he committed himself.
Das einfache Glück
Odd underground and street perspectives in Berlin and in the BRD. From a handful of passionate filmmakers.
Deutschland!
1979 German super 8 short work