German Director and Producers ( in progress. Orders will change)
by Maerzhase | created - 07 May 2014 | updated - 01 Jan 2016 | PublicTotal abandoned. Vieleicht kommt ich ja dieses Jahr dazu hier Ordnung rein zu bringen. Ich nehme nur Personen auf, die in Deutschland aufgewachsen sind und von der dortigen Kultur beeinflusst wurden. Personen die in einem anderen Land aufgewachsen sind fallen raus. Sorry Marc Forster.
1. Christian Alvart
Writer | Pandorum
Christian Alvart was born in 1974 near Frankfurt, Germany. His strict Christian background frowned upon films and television and in his childhood he was rarely allowed to see a movie. He developed a fascination and love for the forbidden subject matter and quickly became an "expert" in his circle ...
gesehen Pandorum und Antikörper
2. 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 ...
3. 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...
4. Wim Wenders
Director | Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...
5. Wolfgang Petersen
Director | Das Boot
A controversial film maker, Wolfgang Petersen has at once been lauded for his professionalism and attention to detail and decried for turning out a string of standard commercial Hollywood blockbusters. The son of a naval officer, Petersen held a lifelong fascination with the sea and naval subjects....
6. Roland Emmerich
Writer | Independence Day
Roland Emmerich is a German film director and producer of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996) and The Patriot (2000). Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original ...
7. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
8. 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 -...
9. Dennis Gansel
Director | Die Welle
Born in 1973 in Hannover, Germany, Dennis Gansel studied at Munich Film School HFF. Remarkably his first feature length movie Das Phantom (2000) was shot while he was still studying. Between his movies Girls on Top (2001), Before the Fall (2004) and The Wave (2008) he spent a long time struggling ...
10. Uwe Boll
Producer | Postal
As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After short stints as guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000...
11. 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).
siehe Victoria
12. Hans-Christian Schmid
Writer | 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint
Hans-Christian Schmid was born on August 19, 1965 in Altötting, Bavaria, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for 23 (1998), Storm (2009) and Lichter (2003).
13. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
14. Doris Dörrie
Writer | Kirschblüten - Hanami
Dörrie completed her schooling at a humanistic high school, from which she graduated in 1973 with her Abitur. In the same year he spent two years in the USA. There she studied film and acting at the Drama Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. This was followed by ...
15. 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).
16. Christoph Schlingensief
Director | Menu total
Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Menu total (1986), Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986) and 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989). He was married to Aino Laberenz. He died on August...
17. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
18. Uli Edel
Director | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Uli Edel was born on April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Christiane F. (1981) and Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013).
19. Thomas Jahn
Director | Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Thomas Jahn was born on July 9, 1965 in Hückelhoven, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), Professor T. (2017) and Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998).
20. Lexi Alexander
Director | Hooligans
Born in Germany, to a Palestinian father and German mother, Lexi Alexander, a former World Kickboxing Champion and USMC close-quarter-combat instructor, worked her way up from stunt woman to Oscar-nominated director with her first short film Johnny Flynton, a drama about a boxer. Eager to learn a ...
21. 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 ...
Der Untergang, Das Experiment
22. Uli Edel
Director | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Uli Edel was born on April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Christiane F. (1981) and Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013).
Baader Meinhof Complex
23. Anno Saul
Director | Kebab Connection
Anno Saul was born on November 14, 1963 in Bonn, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Kebab Connection (2004), The Door (2009) and Grüne Wüste (1999).
Wo ist Fred?
24. Detlev Buck
Actor | Männerpension
Directed his first movie at the age of 21. Studied at the 'Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie' (DFFB) til 1989. Founded the Boje Buck Filmproduktion in 1991. Founded the Boje Buck Produktion GmbH together with Claus Boje in 1992.
Die Vermessung der Welt
25. Hanns Christian Müller
Director | Kehraus
Hanns Christian Müller was born on April 14, 1949 in Munich, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Kehraus (1983), Fast wia im richtigen Leben (1979) and Germanikus (2004). He was previously married to Gisela Schneeberger.
Germanikus
26. Sven Taddicken
Director | Mein Bruder, der Vampir
Sven Taddicken was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Mein Bruder, der Vampir (2001), Emmas Glück (2006) and Schäfchen zählen (2000).
27. Markus Goller
Editor | 25 km/h
Markus Goller was born on June 29, 1969 in Munich, Germany. He is an editor and director, known for 25 km/h (2018), My Brother Simple (2017) and Eine ganz heiße Nummer (2011). He is married to Katja von Garnier. They have one child.
28. Roland Suso Richter
Director | Der Tunnel
Roland Suso Richter was born on January 7, 1961 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. He is a director and production manager, known for The Tunnel (2001), Eine Hand Voll Gras (2000) and Sara Amerika (1999).
29. Ralf Huettner
Director | Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen
Ralf Huettner was born on November 29, 1954 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen (1987), Die Musterknaben (1997) and Um die 30 (1995).
30. Tim Fehlbaum
Director | Tides
Tim Fehlbaum was born in 1982 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for The Colony (2021), Hell (2011) and September 5 (2024).
31. Christian Zübert
Writer | Lammbock
Christian Zübert was born on August 27, 1973 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. Christian is a writer and director, known for Lammbock (2001), Der Schatz der weißen Falken (2005) and Three Quarter Moon (2011).
32. Oskar Roehler
Writer | Die Unberührbare
Oskar Roehler was born on January 21, 1959 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for Die Unberührbare (2000), Silvester Countdown (1997) and Agnes and His Brothers (2004). He has been married to Alexandra Fischer-Roehler since August 2000.
33. Sönke Wortmann
Director | Das Wunder von Bern
Sönke Wortmann was born on August 25, 1959 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and actor, known for The Miracle of Bern (2003), Maybe... Maybe Not (1994) and Drei D (1988). He has been married to Cecilia Kunz since May 2002. They have three children.
34. 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 ...
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