Sunday, March 18, 2012

2012 Books, Films and Projects by Eckhart Schmidt aka Raoul Sternberg

2012 shapes up to be a very busy and prolific year for Eckhart Schmidt. Here some highlights!


Film and Photography: 

  • 2011 was a year of high activity. Two new documentaries have been produced and broadcast – “Hollywood Scandals” and “Hollywood's Walk of Fame”. Both films received high ratings and raving reviews.
  • In early 2012 Eckhart shot and finished editing a film about L.A.'s fight against the art of graffiti. The project was shot all over L.A. including in the most hidden and dangerous locations. Title: “The Last Graffiti Show”. This film will come into theaters later this year.
  • 2012: Following in the footsteps of the DVD release success of “Hollywood Fling”, Eckhart began to shoot another feature film in the same raw cinematographic style. Title of the new feature project: “Confessions Of A Girl In Love”.

  • Furthermore Eckhart finished shooting and editing a project called “Motel Girls” and a documentary called “Stripped – Naked – Nude”. Both will be released in April. The accompanying book “Motel Girls” will be published in June by Belleville Verlag



Art and Literature:

  • 2011: Two international exhibits for “The Art of Passion", Los Angeles and Munich.
  • 2012:  Eckhart showed a selection of his art work from  "The Last Graffiti Show" at the renowned Stephen Hoffman Gallery in Munich, entitled L.A. Street Art. The show received high attention from press and public. 
  • 2011 Eckhart Schmidt published  a double novel called “Hotel/Minorella”, two shocking stories about the young generation.

  • 2012 published Eckhart “Corridos – Stories”, 12 Stories about passion and death, glamour and violence in Hollywood and Mexico.



Coming in the Summer of 2012: the photo book “Motel Girls” and a new novel entitled “Club Girl – Death of a Club Girl”, both to be published by Belleville in June.

Eckhart Schmidt just finished writing his memoirs entitled “Stich-Worte”. The book will come out end of the year.