Rüdiger Sünner
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Rüdiger Sünner, born 1953 in Köln
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 on the Rhine, is a German author and documentary film maker, most notable for his book and his documentary on the Schwarze Sonne.

Biography

1970 Abitur

From 1972 to 1985 he studied music, music science, German and philosophy. Beside being a musician in different Pop groups and training activity as flutist.

In 1985 he gradutated in the art and philosophy of Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

From 1986-1991 he studied at the German film and television academy in Berlin (DFFB).

Since 1991 he has operated as author, film producer and musician in Berlin
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.

Schwarze Sonne

Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is a 2001 German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 book by Rüdiger Sünner that explores the occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

 roots of Nazism
Nazism
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 .

Sünner produced a documentary of the same name. While filming the documentary at the Wewelsburg
Wewelsburg
For the village of Wewelsburg see Village of WewelsburgWewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the village of Wewelsburg which is a quarter of the city Büren, Westphalia, in district of Paderborn in the Alme Valley. The castle has the...

 castle, he was allegedly threatened by a Nazi-skinhead, brandishing his fist with a Black Sun tattoo. Apparently he regarded Sünner's film as a desecration.

Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) is a 1998 90-minute German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, subtitled in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, that explores the occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

 roots of Nazism
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

, also regarding the occult meaning of the Wewelsburg
Wewelsburg
For the village of Wewelsburg see Village of WewelsburgWewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the village of Wewelsburg which is a quarter of the city Büren, Westphalia, in district of Paderborn in the Alme Valley. The castle has the...

 mosaic.

Its sub naming is "Kultorte und Esoterik des III. Reichs" (Cult places and Esotericism of the Third Reich) and "Mythologische Hintergründe des Nationalsozialismus" (The Mythological Background of National Socialism).

It was written and directed by Rüdiger Sünner, and produced by absolut Medien GmbH. Sünner wrote a book of the same name.

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