Diretores alemães
by mcottoni-2 | created - 12 Apr 2015 | updated - 06 May 2015 | Public
1. Ernst Lubitsch
Director | To Be or Not to Be
From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...
2. Hans Richter
Director | Dreams That Money Can Buy
Hans Richter was born on April 6, 1888 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947), 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1955) and Chesscetera (1957). He was married to Frida Ruppel, Erna Niemeyer, Maria van Vanselow and Elisabeth Steiner. He died ...
3. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
Nascido na Áustria
4. 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 ...
5. Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Director | Komödianten
Georg Wilhelm Pabst is considered by many to be the greatest director of German cinema, in his era. He was especially appreciated by actors and actresses for the humane way in which he treated them. This was in contrast to some of his contemporaries, such as Arnold Fanck, who have been ...
Nascido na Rep. Checa
6. Max Ophüls
Director | La ronde
Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, ...
7. Robert Siodmak
Director | Nachts wenn der Teufel kam
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born, American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s.
Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of ...
8. 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...
9. Harun Farocki
Director | Memories
The German film director, screenwriter and media artist Harun Farocki was born on the 9th January 1944 in Nový Jicín [Neutitschein], at that time a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by the Third Reich. He was the son of an immigrated Indian doctor and a German woman. Farocki first studied Theatre, ...
Nascido na Rep. Checa
10. 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...
11. Volker Schlöndorff
Director | Die Blechtrommel
Has studied economy and political sciences as well as at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographique (IDHEC) in Paris, France. Worked as an assistant director with Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Resnais. Founded his own production company Bioskop Film together with Reinhard Hauff ...
12. 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 ...
13. Werner Schroeter
Director | Nel regno di Napoli
The key person of the New German Cinema of the '70s. His works, mostly shot in 16mm, combine an intense interest and knowledge of German history and personal dramatic and emotional investigations. Malina (1991) which stars Isabelle Huppert is one of the great classics of modern cinema and deals ...
14. 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....
15. 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 ...
16. 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...
17. 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 ...
18. 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 ...
19. 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 ...
20. Martin Weisz
Director | Rohtenburg
Renowned video and commercial director, Martin Weisz has shot music videos for such artists as Brandy, Puff Daddy, Korn, Live, Crazytown, Sisqo, Nickelback, Fuel, Mel B, JC Chasez and numerous others. By 2005, alongside dozens of commercials, he had directed more than 350 music videos. Martin ...
21. 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 ...
22. Robert Wiene
Director | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene was born on April 24, 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and The Knight of the Rose (1925). He died on July 17, 1938 in Paris, France.
Nascido na Polônia
23. Viking Eggeling
Director | Symphonie diagonale
Viking Eggeling was born on October 21, 1880 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director, known for Diagonal Symphony (1924). He died on May 19, 1925 in Berlin, Germany.
Nascido na Suécia
24. Fritz Freisler
Director | Hoheit tanzt Walzer
Fritz Freisler was born on January 21, 1881 in Trübau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Ceska Trebova, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Hoheit tanzt Walzer (1926), Das Nachtlager von Mischli-Mischloch (1918) and Jagd nach dem Glück (1920). He died on July 2, 1955 in Vienna...
Nascido na Rep. Checa
25. Ernö Metzner
Art_director | Rivalen im Weltrekord
Ernö Metzner was born on February 25, 1892 in Szabadka, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Serbia]. He was an art director and costume designer, known for Rivalen im Weltrekord (1930), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) and Überfall (1928). He died on September 25, 1953 in Los Angeles, ...
Nascido na Sérvia
26. Ewald André Dupont
Writer | Varieté
German film director E.A. Dupont was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before breaking into the film industry. He wrote several screenplays and worked as a story editor for Richard Oswald before turning to directing in 1917. Over the next eight years Dupont became a respected exponent ...
27. Leni Riefenstahl
Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten
Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...
28. Douglas Sirk
Director | Schlußakkord
Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, ...
29. Veit Harlan
Director | Die goldene Stadt
Veit Harlan was born on September 22, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Die goldene Stadt (1942), Der große König (1942) and Jud Süß (1940). He was married to Kristina Söderbaum, Hilde Körber and Dora Gerson. He died on April 13, 1964 in Capri, ...
30. Helmut Käutner
Director | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Helmut Käutner was born on March 25, 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Captain from Köpenick (1956), The Last Bridge (1954) and The Rest Is Silence (1959). He was married to Erica Balqué. He died on April 20, 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.
31. Erwin Leiser
Director | Wähle das Leben
Erwin Leiser was born on May 16, 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Wähle das Leben (1963), Keine Welt für Kinder (1972) and Transit (1965). He died on August 22, 1996 in Zurich, Switzerland.
32. Alexander Kluge
Director | Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.)
Writer. Director. Producer. Studied law and graduated. Was one of the founders of the Oberhausener Manifest in 1962. Since 1962 Headmaster of the 'Institut fuer Filmgestaltung' at the 'Hochschule fuer Gestaltung' in Ulm, Germany. Since 1988 produces broadcastings dealing with cultural aspects in ...
33. Marcel Ophüls
Director | Hôtel Terminus
Marcel Ophuls (actually Marcel Oppenheimer) is the son of the famous German film maker Max Ophüls. He spent his formative years in Hollywood, briefly served with a U.S. Army theatrical unit in Japan in 1946 and then attended the University of California, Berkely. In 1950, already a naturalized ...
34. Harald Reinl
Director | Der Frosch mit der Maske
Harald Reinl was born on July 9, 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria-Hungary [now Upper Austria, Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Face of the Frog (1959), Chariots of the Gods (1970) and Night on Mont-Blanc (1951). He was married to Daniela Delis, Karin Dor and Corinna Frank. He died on ...
Nascido na Áustria
35. Hellmuth Costard
Director | Die Unterdrückung der Frau ist vor allem an dem Verhalten der Frauen selber zu erkennen
Hellmuth Costard was born on November 1, 1940 in Holzhausen, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves (1970), Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (1978) and Echtzeit...
36. Peter Handke
Writer | Die linkshändige Frau
Handke spent part of his childhood in Carinthia and Berlin. He stayed in Tanzenberg as a boarding school student. In 1961, Handke completed his high school diploma in Klagenfurt. After school he began studying law in Graz. There he got to know the Graz group "Forum Stadtpark". This was followed by ...
Nascido na Áustria
37. 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).
38. Hans W. Geissendörfer
Writer | Lindenstraße
Director. Writer. Producer. Has studied germanistics, theatre, psychology and african languages between 1962 and 1967. Has travelled Africa and Asia. In 1971 co-founder of the german Filmverlag der Autoren. 1983 he founded his own production company. Geissendoerfer is producer and partly director ...
39. Muscha
Director | Humanes Töten
Muscha, or Jürgen Muschalek, born September 28, 1951, in Düsseldorf, Germany, was a director, producer, writer, artist, and musician. He was brought up in the punk scene of Düsseldorf. Collaborating with his long time friend and musician Klaus-Peter "Trini" Trimpop. They wrote and directed the new ...
40. 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).
41. 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).
42. Andreas Kleinert
Director | Wege in die Nacht
Andreas Kleinert was born in 1962 in Berlin, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Wege in die Nacht (1999), Verlorene Landschaft (1992) and Leb' wohl, Joseph (1989).
43. Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Actor | Zurück auf Los!
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss was born on August 17, 1962 in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor and producer, known for Return to Go! (2000), Sisters! Share everything (2017) and The Old Fox (1977). He is married to Till Kaposty.
44. Walter D. Asmus
Director | He Joe
Walter D. Asmus is known for He Joe (1979), Footfalls (2001) and Three Plays by Samuel Beckett: Rockaby, Footfalls and Eh Joe. (1988).
45. Bertram Verhaag
Producer | Blue Eyed
1944 born in Sosnowitz (Upper Silesia), studied sociology and economics. Spent three years as a freelance employee at the Munich's Department of Town Planning.
1972 - 75 Munich College of Film and TV
1976 founded DENKmal-Film Production with Claus Strigel. Collaborating as producers, authors and ...
Nascido na Polônia
46. Wolfgang Becker
Director | Good Bye Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker was born on June 22, 1954 in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Schmetterlinge (1988) and Child's Play (1992).
47. Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cinematographer | Seelenvögel
Thomas Riedelsheimer was born in 1963 in Germany. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Seelenvögel (2009), Rivers and Tides (2001) and Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (2004).
48. Alexander Pickl
Director | Vale Tudo Project
Alexander Pickl - Director, writer and advertiser was born in Munich, Germany. Although his work led him all over the world - he chose to come back to his hometown in Bavaria and is still living and working there. After finishing school he studied Graphic Design and Film at the best Schools in ...
49. Hermine Huntgeburth
Director | Im Kreise der Lieben
Hermine Huntgeburth was born on November 13, 1957 in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a director and producer, known for Im Kreise der Lieben (1991), The Trio (1998) and Bibi Blocksberg (2002).
50. Marc Rothemund
Director | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
After graduating from high school in 1988, Rothemund initially began working as a production manager and assistant director for his father and other filmmakers such as Bernd Eichinger. In 1994 he assisted French director Gérard Corbiau in the filming of the Oscar-nominated drama "Farinelli". ...
51. 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.
52. Chris Kraus
Writer | Die Blumen von gestern
Chris Kraus was born in 1963 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for The Bloom of Yesterday (2016), Four Minutes (2006) and Scherbentanz (2002).
53. 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).
54. Steve Hudson
Director | True North
Steve Hudson was born on August 6, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for True North (2006), Goodbye (2004) and Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Nascido na Inglaterra
55. Angela Schanelec
Director | Ich war zuhause, aber
Angela Schanelec was born on February 14, 1962 in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is a director and actress, known for I Was at Home, But... (2019), The Dreamed Path (2016) and Music (2023). She was previously married to Juergen Gosch.
56. Sam Garbarski
Director | Irina Palm
Sam Garbarski was born the 13th of February 1948 in Munich, Germany. In 1970 he founded the advertising agency Garbarski Euro Rscg, where he directed more than 50 commercials, among which several won awards in many international festivals (Cannes, New York, London...). Since 1997 he has directed ...
57. Max Färberböck
Director | Bella Block
Max Färberböck was born on September 22, 1950 in Munich, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Bella Block (1993), Aimee & Jaguar (1999) and Jenseits (2001).
58. 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 ...
59. Hannes Stöhr
Director | Berlin Is in Germany
Hannes Stöhr was born in 1970 in Hechingen-Sickingen, Swabia, West Germany [now Germany]. He is a director and writer, known for Berlin Is in Germany (2001), Berlin Calling (2008) and One Day in Europe (2005).
60. Emily Atef
Director | Plus que jamais
Emily Atef was born on May 6, 1973 in Berlin, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for More Than Ever (2022), 3 Days in Quiberon (2018) and Das Fremde in mir (2008).
61. Heinrich Breloer
Director | Todesspiel
Heinrich Breloer was born on February 17, 1942 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Todesspiel (1997), Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001) and Speer und er (2005). He is married to Monika Winhuisen. They have two children.
62. Maren Ade
Producer | Toni Erdmann
Maren Ade was born in Karlsruhe on 12 December 1976 to a couple of teachers.She studied cinema at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. As of 2001 she co-founded, together with Janine Jackowski, a fellow graduate from HFF, the "Komplizen" film company. It is through Komplizen that Maren would...
63. Edzard Onneken
Director | Türkisch für Anfänger
Edzard Onneken was born in 1965 in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a director and writer, known for Türkisch für Anfänger (2006), Männer! Alles auf Anfang (2015) and 23 Morde (2019).
Nascido no Paquistão
64. Jo Baier
Director | Der Laden
Jo Baier was born on February 13, 1949 in Munich, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Der Laden (1998), Schwabenkinder (2003) and Hölleisengretl (1995). He is married to Gertrud Baier.
65. Feo Aladag
Producer | Die Fremde
Feo Aladag is an Austrian showrunner, producer, director, screenwriter and actress who lives in Berlin, Germany. She is the producer, executive producer, director and writer of the multi-awarded feature films "When We Leave", "Inbetween Worlds" and "Alone - A Family Story" (aka "The Boy Who Wants ...
Nascida na Áustria
66. Florian Cossen
Director | Das Lied in mir
Florian Cossen is known for Das Lied in mir (2010), Coconut Hero (2015) and Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016).
Nascido em Israel
67. Damir Lukacevic
Director | Transfer
He was born 1966 in Zagreb and went to school in Stuttgart, Germany. From 1993 to 1999 he studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (German Film Academy) in Berlin, Departments of Directing, Screenwriting and Script Development. His breakthrough was the short film "Fremde Heimat" for which ...
Nascido na Croácia
68. Ulrich Köhler
Director | Bungalow
Ulrich Köhler was born on December 15, 1969 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Bungalow (2002), Sleeping Sickness (2011) and In My Room (2018).
69. Sebastian Grobler
Director | Der ganz große Traum
Sebastian Grobler is known for Lessons of a Dream (2011), Morgen früh ist die Nacht rum (2003) and Katie Fforde (2010).
70. Hans Weingartner
Director | Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Hans Weingartner was born on November 2, 1977 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria. He is a director and writer, known for The Edukators (2004), Das weiße Rauschen (2001) and 303 (2018).
Nascido na Áustria
71. Andreas Dresen
Director | Halt auf freier Strecke
Andreas Dresen was born on August 16, 1963 in Gera, German Democratic Republic. He is a director and writer, known for Stopped on Track (2011), Cloud 9 (2008) and Grill Point (2002).
72. David Wnendt
Director | Er ist wieder da
David Wnendt was born in 1977 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Look Who's Back (2015), Combat Girls (2011) and Sun and Concrete (2023).
73. 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).
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