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1. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Tell Your Friends

Writer |
Faustrecht der Freiheit
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Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and
art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he
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served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being

anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
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2. 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 -...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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. ...

6. Wolfgang Petersen
Director |
Das Boot

This director seems to shine most when making movies that can
best be described as part action movies/part disaster movies.

Beginning with Outbreak (1995) about the outbreak of a killer

virus. This film had shades of an Irwin Allen disaster movie, The

Swarm (1978), about the outbreak of killer bees....

7. 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 ...

8. 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...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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...
13. Doris Dörrie
Writer |
Kirschblüten - Hanami

Doris Dörrie was born on May 26, 1955 in Hannover, Lower

Saxony, Germany. She is a writer and director, known for Cherry
Blossoms (2008), Men... (1985) and Greetings from Fukushima

(2016). She was previously married to Helge Weindler.

14. Arnold Fanck

Director |
Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü

Arnold Fanck was born March 6, 1889, in Frankenthal, Germany.

A trained geologist, he began making documentary and action
films after the end of World War I, and his love of geology
inspired him to shoot his films in remote mountain locations.

These pictures became immensely popular with the German...

15. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Director |
Das Leben der Anderen

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was born on May 2, 1973 in

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and
writer, known for The Lives of Others (2006), Never Look Away
(2018) and The Tourist (2010). He is married to Christiane

Asschenfeldt. They have three children.

16. 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).

17. 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 ...

18. Reinhard Hauff
Director |
Blauäugig

Director. Writer. Producer. Concentrated early on TV work and has

done numerous TV shows and entertainment broadcasts. Worked
as an assistant director for Rolf von Sydow, Heinz Liesendahl and
Michael Pfleghar. In 1973 he founded the production company

Bioskop Film together with Volker Schlöndorff ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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), The
Knight of the Rose (1925) and Das wandernde Licht (1916). He

died on July 17, 1938 in Paris, France.

22. 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).

23. Frank Beyer

Director |
Spur der Steine

Director. Writer. Began studying at the FAMU in Prague,

Czechoslovakia, in 1952 where he made his diploma in directing.
Since 1958 worked as a director for the east-german production
company DEFA. In that time he received numerous decorations

for his work. His film Trace of Stones (1966) was ...
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).

25. 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, ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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).

28. 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 A Map of the

Heart (2002).
29. Hans-Christian Schmid
Writer |
23

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 Das Verschwinden (2017).

30. William Dieterle

Actor |
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage

Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Wilhelm Dieterle was the

youngest of nine children of parents Jacob and Berthe Dieterle.
They lived in poverty, and when he was old enough to work,
young Wilhelm earned money as a carpenter and a scrap dealer.

He dreamed of better things, though, and theater caught ...

31. 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, ...

32. Robert Siodmak
Director |
Nachts wenn der Teufel kam

The director Robert Siodmak (which he insisted, be pronounced

'See-odd-mack') was a masterful film maker who successfully
blended the techniques of German Expressionism with
contemporary styles of American film, particularly film noir, in the

process creating a handful of moody, sometimes chilling,...

33. Robert Schwentke

Director |
Der Hauptmann

Robert Schwentke was born in 1968 in Stuttgart, Germany. He is

a director and writer, known for The Captain (2017), RED (2010)

and The Family Jewels (2003).

34. 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...

35. 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 The Golden City (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, ...

36. 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 ...

37. 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

...

38. Florian Gallenberger

Director |
Quiero ser (I want to be...)

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 ...

39. 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.

40. 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, ...

41. Percy Adlon

Director |
Out of Rosenheim

Percy Adlon is best known for his film "Bagdad Cafe" aka "Out of
Rosenheim." He was born on June 1, 1935 in Munich, the son of
Paul Rudolf Laubenthal, a prominent opera singer, and Susanne
Adlon, and grew up in Ammerland/Starnbergersee, in the

Bavarian countryside. He studied art and theater ...

42. Valeska Grisebach
Director |
Western

Valeska Grisebach was born on January 4, 1968 in Bremen, West

Germany [now Germany]. She is a director and writer, known for

Western (2017), Longing (2006) and Be My Star (2001).

43. Walter Ruttmann

Director |
Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

Walter Ruttmann was born on December 28, 1887 in Frankfurt-

on-Main, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), Metropolis (1927) and
Mannesmann - Ein Film der Mannesmannröhren-Werke (1937).

He was married to Christine Margarete Helene Prasch, Nina...

44. Sebastian Schipper

Director |
Victoria

Sebastian Schipper was born on May 8, 1968 in Hannover,

Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Victoria (2015),

Roads (2019) and The English Patient (1996).

45. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Director |
Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg was born on December 8, 1935 in

Nossendorf, 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).

46. Benjamin Heisenberg

Writer |
Der Räuber

Benjamin Heisenberg was born in 1974 in Tübingen, Germany.

He grew up in small village near Würzburg where his father was
professor of neurobiology at the local university. After finishing
school in 1993 he went to study at the academy of fine arts in

Munich. In 1995 he became assistant of Walther ...

47. Helma Sanders-Brahms

Director |
Deutschland bleiche Mutter

Helma Sanders-Brahms was born on November 20, 1940 in

Emden, Province of Hanover, Prussia [now Lower Saxony],
Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Germany Pale
Mother (1980), No Mercy, No Future (1981) and Laputa (1986).

She died on May 27, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

 48. 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 ...

49. Konrad Wolf

Director |
Professor Mamlock

He was the son of the German dramatist Friedrich Wolf. He left

Germany with his family for the USSR and came back to
Germany as a nineteen year old Lieutenant in the Russian Army
in 1945. Was a short time commander of the town Bernau near

Berlin in Spring 1945. _Ich war 19 (1968)_ is an ...

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