Christian M. Goldbeck

Goldbeck studied production design at the HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam Babelsberg and graduated from the University of East London with a B.A. in architecture and has been working as a freelance production designer since 2001. For the production design of the Cannes contribution "The Educators" (Director: Hans Weingartner, 2004), he destroyed the luxury order of the rich with iconic furniture towers. His production design for the comedy "Go for Zucker" (2005) by Dani Levy was nominated for the German Film Prize in 2005. He worked with director Hans-Christian Schmid on "Distant Lights" (2003), "Requiem" (2006) and the two Berlinale contributions "Storm" (2008) and "Home for the Weekend" (2012). Goldbeck was nominated for the German Film Prize in 2006 for the meticulously designed distorting mirror of an oppressive small-town world in the 70s: "Requiem", and two years later for Maria Schrader's debut feature "Lovelife" (2008), which was filmed primarily in Israel. He was the supervising art director for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of The Reader (2007) and designed Alain Gsponer's remake of "Heidi" (2015), which received critical acclaim for its realistic and gritty portrayal of mountain farming life. Goldbeck received the sixth nomination for the German Film Prize in 2016 for Wolfgang Becker's feature film "Me and Kaminski", for which he invented the coherent universe of a world class artist including his works. He was world building for Visar Morina's critically acclaimed drama "Exil", which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. "Coloring interiors in bilious, seasick yellows and oranges that appear tinted by panic" as critics wrote. Christian M. Goldbeck designed all of Karoline Herfurth's feature films, including the hit comedy "Wunderschön" (2020), and Bora Dagtekin also entrusted him with the design for his box office hit "The Perfect Secret" (2019). In 2021, he recreated the battlefields and trenches of Verdun for the new film adaptation of Erich-Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", directed by Edward Berger.