All Lola Awards Winners for Direction
by SciFiCouple | created - 08 Mar 2020 | updated - 28 Dec 2020 | PublicGermam Film Awards ( Deutscher Filmpreis )
1. Bernhard Wicki
Director | The Longest Day
Bernhard Wicki was born on October 28, 1919 in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for The Longest Day (1962), The Bridge (1959) and The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961). He was married to Elisabeth Endriss and Agnes Fink. He died on January 5, 2000 in Munich, ...
4 Film Awards in Gold
1990: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Das Spinnennetz
1985: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Grünstein-Variante
1972: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Das falsche Gewicht
1960: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Brücke
2. 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 ...
3 Film Awards in Gold
1998: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - The End of Violence
1978: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der amerikanische Freund
1975: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Falsche Bewegung
+4 Nominations
3. 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).
3 Film Awards in Gold
2019:Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Gundermann
2012: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Halt auf freier Strecke
2009: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Wolke 9
+3 Nominations
4. 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...
3 Film Awards in Gold
1979: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Ehe der Maria Braun
1978: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Despair
1971: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Warum läuft Herr R. Amok
5. 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 ...
3 Film Awards in Gold
1991: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Malina
1982: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Tag der Idioten
1979: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Nel regno di Napoli
6. 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...
2 Film Awards in Gold
2011: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - 3
1999: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Lola rennt
+4 Nominations
7. 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 -...
2 Film Awards in Gold
2008: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Auf der anderen Seite
2004: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Gegen die Wand
+2 Nominations
8. 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 ...
2 Film Awards in Gold
1977: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der Fangschuß
1971: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
+2 Nominations
9. Helmut Dietl
Writer | Schtonk
Helmut Dietl was born on June 22, 1944 in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Schtonk (1992), Rossini (1997) and Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz (1983). He was married to Tamara Dietl, Barbara Valentin and Karin Dietl-Wichmann. He died on March 30, 2015 in Munich,...
2 Film Awards in Gold
1997: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Rossini
1992: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Schtonk
10. 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.
1 Film Award in Gold
1 Film Award in Silver
1957: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1954: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die letzte Brücke
11. Peter Lilienthal
Director | David
His family emigrated to Uruguay in 1939. 1956 scholarship at the Hochschule der Kuenste (HDK) in Berlin, Germany. Between 1959 and 1964 he worked at the German TV channel Suedwestfunk, first as an assistant, later as a director. 1967/68 he was lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in ...
2 Film Awards in Gold
1987: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Das Schweigen des Dichters
1983: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Dear Mr. Wonderful
12. Johannes Schaaf
Director | Trotta
Johannes Schaaf was born on April 7, 1933 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Trotta (1971), Tätowierung (1967) and Große Liebe (1966). He was married to Stella Kleindienst and Rosemarie Fendel. He died on November 1, 2019 in Murnau, Bavaria, Germany.
2 Film Awards in Gold
1972: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Trotta
1968: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Tätowierung
13. Dominik Graf
Director | Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde
Dominik Graf was born on September 6, 1952 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021), Dreileben (2011) and Der Felsen (2002).
1 Film Award in Gold
1988: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Katze
+3 Nominations
14. 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).
1 Film Award in Gold
2002: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Nirgendwo in Afrika
+2 Nominations
15. Adolf Winkelmann
Director | Die Abfahrer
Adolf Winkelmann was born on April 10, 1946 in Hallenberg, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Die Abfahrer (1978), Young Light (2016) and Nordkurve (1992). He is married to Christiane Schaefer. They have one child. He was previously married to Jutta Winkelmann.
1 Film Award in Gold
1993: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Nordkurve
+2 Nominations
16. Dani Levy
Director | Alles auf Zucker!
Dani Levy was born on November 17, 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Go for Zucker (2004), Silent Night (1996) and Tatort (1970). He is married to Sabine Liedl. They have two children.
1 Film Award in Gold
2005: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Alles auf Zucker!
+1 Nomination
17. 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...
1 Film Award in Gold
2017: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Toni Erdmann
+1 Nomination
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).
1 Film Award in Gold
1990: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Last Exit to Brooklyn
+1 Nomination
19. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Director | Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg was born on December 8, 1935 in Nossendorf, Pomerania, Prussia [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern], Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972), Die Nacht (1985) and Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969).
1 Film Award in Gold
1986: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Nacht
+1 Nomination
20. 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 ...
1 Film Award in Gold
1970: Best New Direction (Beste Nachwuchsregie) - Jonathan
+1 Nomination
21. Jan Schütte
Director | Drachenfutter
Jan Schütte was born on June 26, 1957 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Drachenfutter (1987), Winckelmanns Reisen (1990) and Love Comes Lately (2007). He is married to Christina Szápáry. They have four children.
1 Film Award in Gold
1991: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Winckelmanns Reisen
+1 Nomination
22. 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.
1 Film Award in Gold
1995: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der bewegte Mann
+1 Nomination
23. Peter Sehr
Director | Love the Hard Way
Peter Sehr was born on June 10, 1951 in Bad König, Hesse, Germany. He was an assistant director and director, known for Love the Hard Way (2001), Kaspar Hauser (1993) and The Anarchist's Wife (2008). He was married to Marie Noëlle. He died on May 9, 2013 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
1 Film Award in Gold
1994: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Kaspar Hauser
+1 Nomination
24. 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).
1 Film Award in Gold
2015: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Victoria
25. 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 ...
1 Film Award in Gold
2006: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Das Leben der Anderen
26. 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).
1 Film Award in Gold
2003: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Good Bye Lenin!
27. 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 ...
1 Film Award in Gold
1958: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
28. Edgar Reitz
Director | Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht
Studied theatre science, German philology, art history, and publicism in Munich. Published some poems and short stories during early 1950s, co-edited the literature magazine "Spuren". In 1952, he took acting lessons, co-founded a student theatre which became established as the university's studio ...
1 Film Award in Gold
2014: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht
29. Lars Kraume
Director | Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
Lars Kraume was born on February 24, 1973 in Chieri, Piedmont, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015), The Silent Revolution (2018) and Tatort (1970).
1 Film Award in Gold
2016: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
30. 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 ...
1 Film Award in Gold
1967: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.)
31. Ulrich Schamoni
Director | Alle Jahre wieder
Ulrich Schamoni was born on November 9, 1939 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Next Year, Same Time (1967), Es (1966) and Eins (1971). He was married to Erika Grimme-Schamoni and Sigrid Schröder. He died on March 9, 1998 in Berlin, Germany.
1 Film Award in Gold
1966: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Es
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!" ...
1 Film Award in Gold
2013: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Oh Boy
33. Roland Klick
Director | Supermarkt
Roland Klick was born on July 4, 1939 in Hof, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Supermarket (1974), Deadlock (1970) and Bübchen (1968). He was previously married to Marlis Klick.
1 Film Award in Gold
1974: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Supermarkt
34. Josef Rusnak
Director | The Thirteenth Floor
Josef Rusnak was born on November 25, 1958. He is a director and writer, known for The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Kaltes Fieber (1984) and Godzilla (1998).
1 Film Award in Gold
1984: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Kaltes Fieber
35. Romuald Karmakar
Director | Der Totmacher
Romuald Karmakar was born in Wiesbaden on February 15 1965. The son of a French mother and an Iranian father lived with his parents in Athens from 1977 until 1982, and then relocated with his family to Munich, where he graduated from high school in 1984. The same year, he bought a Super 8 camera ...
1 Film Award in Gold
1996: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Der Totmacher
36. 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).
1 Film Award in Gold
2018: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - 3 Tage in Quiberon
37. Nora Fingscheidt
Director | Systemsprenger
Nora Fingscheidt was born on February 17, 1983 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for System Crasher (2019), The Unforgivable (2021) and Ohne diese Welt (2017).
1 Film Award in Gold
2020: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Systemsprenger
38. Josef von Báky
Director | Das doppelte Lottchen
Josef von Báky was born on March 23, 1902 in Zombor, Austria-Hungary [now Sombor, Serbia]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), Der Ruf (1949) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943). He was married to Juliska Németh. He died on July 28, 1966 in ...
1 Director's Award in Gold
1951: Das doppelte Lottchen
39. Alfred Weidenmann
Director | Canaris
Alfred Weidenmann was born on May 10, 1916 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Deadly Decision (1954), Verdammt zur Sünde (1964) and Only a Woman (1962). He died on June 9, 2000 in Zürich, Switzerland.
1 Film Award in Gold
1955: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Canaris Master Spy
40. Kurt Hoffmann
Director | Das Wirtshaus im Spessart
Kurt Hoffmann was born on November 12, 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He was a director and assistant director, known for Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1958), The Haunted Castle (1960) and Aren't We Wonderful? (1958). He was married to Luise Schneider and Betti Grimm. He died on June 25, 2001 ...
1 Film Award in Gold
1965: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Das Haus in der Karpfengasse
41. Peter Gorski
Director | Faust
Peter Gorski was born on November 7, 1921 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and assistant director, known for Faust (1960), Reifende Jugend (1955) and Die große Woge (1958). He died on March 3, 2007 in Manacor, Mallorca, Spain.
1 Film Award in Gold
1961: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Faust
42. Heidi Genée
Director | 1+1=3
Heidi Genée was born on October 22, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She was an editor and director, known for 1+1=3 (1979), Grete Minde (1977) and Kraftprobe (1982). She died on September 26, 2005 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
1 Film Award in Gold
1980: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - 1+1=3
43. Michael Fengler
Writer | Warum läuft Herr R. Amok
Michael Fengler was born on November 14, 1940 in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad, Russia]. He is a producer and writer, known for Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), Eierdiebe (1977) and Output (1974).
1 Film Award in Gold
1971: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Warum läuft Herr R. Amok
44. Peter Zadek
Director | Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame
Peter Zadek was born on May 19, 1926 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969), Der Pott (1971) and Eiszeit (1975). He died on July 30, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany.
1 Film Award in Gold
1969: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame
45. Lutz Konermann
Director | Schwarz und ohne Zucker
Lutz Konermann was born on May 5, 1958 in Bardenberg, Würselen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Schwarz und ohne Zucker (1986), Aufdermauer (1982) and My Name Is Salt (2013).
1 Film Award in Gold
1983: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Aufdermauer
46. Frank Wisbar
Director | Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben
Frank Wisbar was born on December 9, 1899 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and producer, known for Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959), Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten (1935) and Strangler of the Swamp (1945). He died ...
1 Film Award in Silver
1959: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben
47. Maria Knilli
Director | Lieber Karl
Maria Knilli was born on April 19, 1959 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for Dear Karl (1984), Follow Me (1989) and Spätvorstellung (1982).
1 Film Award in Gold
1985: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Lieber Karl
48. Maria Theresia Wagner
Director | Die Nacht des Marders
Maria Theresia Wagner was born in Griesbach, Bavaria, Germany. Maria Theresia is a director and writer, known for Die Nacht des Marders (1988), Clara (1993) and Engel ohne Flügel (1993).
1 Film Award in Gold
1989: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Die Nacht des Marders
49. Pepe Danquart
Director | Nach Saison
Pepe Danquart was born on March 1, 1955 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Off Season (1997), Black Rider (1993) and Heimspiel (2000).
2000:Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Heimspiel
50. Uwe Schrader
Director | Kanakerbraut
Uwe Schrader was born in 1954 in Germany. He is a producer and director, known for Kanakerbraut (1983), Mau Mau (1992) and Phantom (1979).
1 Film Award in Gold
1984: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Kanakerbraut
51. Rudolf Jugert
Director | Nachts auf den Straßen
Rudolf Jugert was born on September 30, 1907 in Hannover, Germany. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Mistress (1952), Film Without a Name (1948) and Die feuerrote Baronesse (1959). He died on April 14, 1979 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
1 Director's Award in Gold
1953: Nachts auf den Straßen
52. Rolf Bührmann
Producer | Looping
Rolf Bührmann was born on October 2, 1942 in Gau-Algesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He is a producer and actor, known for Looping (1981), Flaming Hearts (1978) and Kiez (1983).
1 Film Award in Gold
1981: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Looping
53. Walter Bockmayer
Director | Flammende Herzen
Walter Bockmayer was born on July 4, 1948 in Fehrbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Flaming Hearts (1978), Looping (1981) and Rivalinnen unter griechischer Sonne (1974). He died on October 7, 2014 in Cologne, Germany.
1 Film Award in Gold
1981: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Looping
54. Esther Gronenborn
Director | Alaska.de
Esther Gronenborn was born in 1966 in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Alaska.de (2000), Adil geht (2005) and 99euro-films (2001).
1 Film Award in Gold
2001: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Alaska.de
55. Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Director | Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot
Marcus H. Rosenmüller was born on July 21, 1973 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Grave Decisions (2006), Trautmann (2018) and Welcome to Siegheilkirchen (2021).
1 Film Award in Gold
2007: Best Direction (Beste Regie) - Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot
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