Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  Schlingensief was born on 24 October 1960 in Oberhausen. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a pediatric nurse. As a child, he worked as an altar server and already made short films with a hand-held camera. Having passed his Abitur exams, he twice failed to gain admission to the University of Television and Film Munich. From 1981 he studied German language and literature, philosophy and art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, but also dabbled as a musician and finally dropped out in 1983 to work as an assistant to the experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. After working as a teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he became a production manager on Hans W. Geißendörfer's TV series Lindenstraße.
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960 – 21 August 2010) was a German theatre director, performance artist and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a Regietheater artist.
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  Already as a young man Schlingensief had organized art events in the cellar of his parents' house, and local artists such as Helge Schneider or Theo Jörgensmann performed in his early short films. He considered himself a 'provocatively thoughtful' artist. He created numerous controversial and provocative theatre pieces as well as films, his former mentor being filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes.
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  Schlingensief's commitment to developing nations later took him to Burkina Faso, where he was awarded a concession to build an opera house, arguably his most ambitious project. The project, which received funding from the German government, was also to include a theater and film school, and an infirmary. Construction began in January 2010, near Ouagadougou, and was later continued under the guidance of Schlingensief's wife and long-time assistant Aino Laberenz, whom he married in 2009. In 2012, numerous internationally renowned artists have donated works for a fundraising auction at the Hamburger Bahnhof, among them Marina Abramović, Pipilotti Rist, Georg Baselitz, Christo, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Wolfgang Tillmans and Günther Uecker. Patti Smith, a friend of Schlingensief for many years, contributed a drawing that she made in the summer of 2010 during a joint exhibition in Munich.
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  by a psychopathic West German family with chainsaws, and the third Terror 2000 (1992) focuses on xenophobic violence after the reunification process. One of Schlingensief's central tactics was to call politicians' bluff in an attempt to reveal the inanities of their "responsible" discourse, a tactic he called "playing something through to its end". This strategy was most notable in his work Please Love Austria (alternately named Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container) at the time of the FPÖ and ÖVP coalition in Austria, a work which attracted international support, a media frenzy and countless debates about art practice. In 2009, he joined the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival under Tilda Swinton.
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  in the sense of becoming active not 'actors', his work could be considered a direct legacy of Bertolt Brecht, as it demands involvement as opposed to passivity and merely looking on as is the case in traditional text-based theatre. In an age of extreme media fatigue, his was a fresh voice albeit and undisputedly containing echoes of the past, often humorous and subversive yet never cynical. His influences included Joseph Beuys and his idea of social sculpture, and artists Allan Kaprow and Dieter Roth. At the time of his death, he was involved in productions for the Ruhrtriennale and for the Berlin Staatsoper's "Metanoia".
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content: 1990&ndash;1993 he directed a series of films known as the Germany-trilogy. ; 1993 he directed his first stage piece "100 Years of CDU" at the Volksbühne Berlin ; 1994 Kuhnen "94, Bring Me the Head of Adolf Hitler!" at the Volksbühne Berlin ; 1996 Director of the movie United Trash ; 1996 Rocky Dutschke at the Volksbühne Berlin ; 1997 My Felt, My Fat, My Hare, 48 Hours Survival for Germany (Documenta X, Kassel) ; 1997 Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call For Germany, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Station Mission for the Homeless ; 1998 Chance 2000, an Election Circus, Prater Garden, Berlin and other locations nationwide ; 1999 Freakstars 3000 at the Volksbühne Berlin 
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  drama on stage as a way of re-integrating the ex-Neo-Nazis with the common workforce of the theatre. Schlingensief's work covered a variety of media, including installation and the ubiquitous 'talk show' and has in many cases led to audience members leaving the theatre space with Schlingensief and his colleagues to take part in events such as Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call for Germany 1997 or Chance 2000, Vote for Yourself in which he formed the Last Chance Party where anyone could become a candidate themselves in the run up to the federal election of 1998 in Germany. The same year he made a performance project 
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content:  Already Schlingensief's debut feature film, the surreal, absurd experimental Tunguska – Die Kisten sind da! ("Tunguska – The Crates Are Delivered!", 1984) was well received by critics. Growing up in the shadow of the New German Cinema, Schlingensief was deeply influenced by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder—many members of whose stock company of actors such as Udo Kier, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann or Volker Spengler became regulars in Schlingensief's films—or Alexander Kluge, with whom he collaborated on numerous occasions. To said period of film, Schlingensief delivered both a heartfelt homage as well as the final coup de grâce with The 120 Days of Bottrop—starring Helmut Berger, playing an inept director's 
Title: Christoph Schlingensief
Content: 2000 Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Opera Square, Vienna in association with the Burgtheater) ; 2001 Hamlet, This is Your Family—Nazi Line in Zürich, Switzerland, and at the Volksbühne in Berlin in collaboration with Ubermorgen ; 2002 Atta Atta—Art Has Broken Out! at Volksbühne in Berlin ; 2003 founded the "Church of Fear" at the Venice Biennale ; 2003 directed Bambiland by Elfriede Jelinek at the Burgtheater in Vienna ; 2004 directed Richard Wagners Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus ; 2004 created Kunst und Gemuese at Volksbühne in Berlin ; 2005 premiered The Animatograph in Reykjavík, Iceland which continues in various manifestations up to the present ; 2006 directed Area 7, a St Matthews Expedition at the Burgtheater in Vienna ; 2006 premiered Kaprow City a performative installation at the Volksbühne in Berlin ; 2007 directed The Flying Dutchman at the Amazon Theatre, Manaus ; 2007 created a new talk show series for Arte television, The Pilots ; 2008 Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir (Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord) ; 2009 Mea Culpa – eine ReadyMadeOper (Burgtheater, Vienna) ; 2009 Sterben lernen ; 2010 Remdoogo – Via Intolleranza II (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich) 

Question: What is Christoph Schlingensief's occupation?
Answer: theatrical director.
stage director.
theatre director.
play director.
director.
theater director.