Directors German〘new-gen〙
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1. Til Schweiger
Actor | Inglourious Basterds
Actor, producer, writer, and director Til Schweiger is Germany's best-known actor and also the country's most successful director. With more than 51 Million admissions no other German filmmaker drew more people to cinemas. He runs his own production company Barefoot Films based in Berlin, Germany.
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Kokowaah (coq'au vin) 2011
2. Maria Schrader
Director | She Said
Maria Schrader was born in Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 27th, 1965. She directed and co-wrote the screenplay of the awards-winning film Liebesleben (2007). As well, she directed Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016) and the Emmy-award wining miniseries Unorthodox (2020) (...
Man of my dreams 2021, Stefan Zweig in Europe ** 2017 DE
3. Florian Gallenberger
Director | Colonia
Florian Gallenberger was born in 1972 in Munich, Germany. His first film experience was as a child actor. He studied philosophy before he went to Munich Film School HFF where he made several award winning live action short films. He won a Student Academy Award and an Academy Award for his ...
Colonia *** (F. loc. Chile) 2015
4. Christian Petzold
Director | Barbara
Christian Petzold was born in Hilden in 1960. After studying German and Drama at the Freie Universität Berlin, he enrolled in Berlin's German Academy for Film and Television (DFFB). There he studied film direction while at same time working as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut ...
5. Oliver Hirschbiegel
Director | Das Experiment
Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1957. In his teens he left high school and worked as a cooker in a boat.
Then he studied painting and graphism in the Academy of arts in Hamburg where he also started experimenting with video and photography. Those experimental movies attracted the attention of some ...
Downfall **** (Hitler's last days in Chancellery's basement) 2004 Hamburg DE
6. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Director | Das Leben der Anderen
As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991. He then spent two years studying in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with the following ...
Never look away 2018, The Tourist 2010, The Lives of Others ('06) #52, Top#250 - Cologne, North-Rhine, Westphalia DE
7. Robert Schwentke
Writer | Der Hauptmann
Robert Schwentke was born in 1968 in Stuttgart, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for The Captain (2017), RED (2010) and Eierdiebe (2003).
The Time Traveler's Wife *** 2009 Stuttgart DE
8. Tom Tykwer
Writer | Lola rennt
Director, writer, producer and composer Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany. He showed an interest in film-making from childhood, making super 8 films from the age of 11. Among his first jobs was working at a local art-house cinema. Tykwer eventually relocated to Berlin, first working...
Perfume History of a murderer 2008, Heaven 2002, Run Lola run 1998 - North Rhine-Westphalia, DE
9. Marc Forster
Producer | World War Z
Marc Forster is a German-born filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films Monster's Ball (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), Stay (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), The Kite Runner (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), and World War Z (2013).
His breakthrough film was Monster's...
Monster's Ball 2001, The Kite Runner *** 2007 - Illertissen, Bavaria DE
10. Michael Herbig
Actor | Der Schuh des Manitu
Michael 'Bully' Herbig studied photography and is well known in the German comedy scene as a writer, director and producer. In addition to his morning radio show 'Langemann und die Morgencrew' from 1992 to 1995, he also made 800 episodes of the comedy radio show 'Die Bayern Cops'. He has appeared ...
Baloon **** 2017
11. Dominik Moll
Writer | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Dominik Moll was born on May 7, 1962 in Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Only the Animals (2019) and The Night of the 12th (2022).
12. Sebastian Schipper
Director | Victoria
Sebastian Schipper was born on May 8, 1968 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Victoria (2015), Roads (2019) and The English Patient (1996).
Victoria 2015
13. Leander Haußmann
Director | Sonnenallee
Leander Haußmann was born on June 26, 1959 in Quedlinburg, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and director, known for Sun Alley (1999), Berlin Blues (2003) and Hotel Lux (2011).
Kabale und Liebe 2012 TV movie
14. Felix van Groeningen
Director | Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen was born on November 1, 1977 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is a director and writer, known for Beautiful Boy (2018), The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and The Eight Mountains (2022).
Belgica *** Gent - Flanders (Γάνδη) BE
15. Jessica Hausner
Director | Little Joe
Jessica Hausner was born on October 6, 1972 in Vienna, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for Little Joe (2019), Lourdes (2009) and Amour Fou (2014).
Amour Fou ** 2017 AT
16. Sandra Nettelbeck
Writer | Bella Martha
Sandra Nettelbeck was born on April 4, 1966 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and director, known for Mostly Martha (2001), Last Love (2013) and No Reservations (2007).
17. Philipp Stölzl
Director | Nordwand
Philipp Stölzl was born in 1967 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for North Face (2008), The Physician (2013) and Young Goethe in Love (2010).
Goethe! 2010
18. Thomas Stuber
Director | In den Gängen
Thomas Stuber was born in Leipzig in 1981. After graduating from high school, he completed a number of different internships and assistantships in the film industry. Starting in 2002, he worked on several film and TV productions as a script/continuity supervisor and director's assistant. From 2004 ...
In the Aisles *** 2017 DE
19. Gregor Schnitzler
Director | Die Wolke
Gregor Schnitzler was born in 1964 in Berlin, Germany. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Die Wolke (2006), What to Do in Case of Fire (2001) and School of Magical Animals (2021).
Bauhaus *** 2019
20. Jan Zabeil
Director | Three Peaks
Born in Berlin in 1981, Jan Zabeil studied at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 2007-2008 his short films "L.H.O." and "Was Weiss Der Tropfen Davon" screened at over hundred international film festivals and were awarded with several prizes. His debut feature "The River...
Three Peaks ** 2018
21. Jan-Ole Gerster
Director | Oh Boy
Born in 1978 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2000, Jan-Ole Gerstner moved to Berlin, where he did an internship at the production company "X-Films Creative Pool" ("Run Lola Run", "The White Ribbon"). He then became Wolfgang Becker's personal assistant in the production of "Good Bye, Lenin!" ...
Oh boy (A coffee in Berlin) 2012 (no coffee, no money, no love)
22. Fatih Akin
Director | Aus dem Nichts
Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. His collaboration with Wueste Film also dates from this time. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin - You're The One!" ("Sensin -...
In the Fade 2017, Tschik 2016 (orig. TR b. l. DE Hamburg)
23. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
White Ribbon 2009, Caché 2005
24. Caroline Link
Director | Nirgendwo in Afrika
Caroline Link was born on June 2, 1964 in Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Nowhere in Africa (2001), Beyond Silence (1996) and Annaluise & Anton (1999).
When Hitler stole the pink rabbit 2019 **** DE
25. Margarethe von Trotta
Director | Hannah Arendt
Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942. In the 1960s she moved to Paris where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films. She also pursued an acclaimed acting career, starring in films by well known German directors such as Rainer Werner ...
Hannah Arendt *** 2012
26. Michael Herbig
Actor | Der Schuh des Manitu
Michael 'Bully' Herbig studied photography and is well known in the German comedy scene as a writer, director and producer. In addition to his morning radio show 'Langemann und die Morgencrew' from 1992 to 1995, he also made 800 episodes of the comedy radio show 'Die Bayern Cops'. He has appeared ...
Baloon **** 2017
27. Dominik Moll
Writer | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Dominik Moll was born on May 7, 1962 in Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Only the Animals (2019) and The Night of the 12th (2022).
28. Sandra Nettelbeck
Writer | Bella Martha
Sandra Nettelbeck was born on April 4, 1966 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and director, known for Mostly Martha (2001), Last Love (2013) and No Reservations (2007).
29. Felix van Groeningen
Director | Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen was born on November 1, 1977 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is a director and writer, known for Beautiful Boy (2018), The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and The Eight Mountains (2022).
Belgica *** Gent - Flanders (Γάνδη) BE
30. Florian Gallenberger
Director | Colonia
Florian Gallenberger was born in 1972 in Munich, Germany. His first film experience was as a child actor. He studied philosophy before he went to Munich Film School HFF where he made several award winning live action short films. He won a Student Academy Award and an Academy Award for his ...
Colonia *** (F. loc. Chile) 2015
31. Gregor Schnitzler
Director | Die Wolke
Gregor Schnitzler was born in 1964 in Berlin, Germany. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Die Wolke (2006), What to Do in Case of Fire (2001) and School of Magical Animals (2021).
Bauhaus *** 2019
32. Jan-Ole Gerster
Director | Oh Boy
Born in 1978 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2000, Jan-Ole Gerstner moved to Berlin, where he did an internship at the production company "X-Films Creative Pool" ("Run Lola Run", "The White Ribbon"). He then became Wolfgang Becker's personal assistant in the production of "Good Bye, Lenin!" ...
Oh boy (A coffee in Berlin) *** 2012 (no job, no girl, no coffee) starring Tom Schilling
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