WThomas Arslan is a German-Turkish film director. He directed more than ten films since 1990.
WJürgen Böttcher is a German film director and painter. He is best known for his film Born in '45.
WDietrich Brüggemann is a German film director screenwriter and musician. He collaborates closely with his sister Anna Brüggemann on several screenplays for his films. They were awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for Stations of the Cross.
WDetlev Buck is a German film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.
WHeiner Carow was a German film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film So Many Dreams was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, his film Coming Out won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Carow died in 1997, aged 67. His grave is located in Babelsberg.
WBenjamin Eicher is a film director famous for his cult film sequel Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II and further feature-length gangster comedies.
WMax Färberböck is a German film director and writer. He was born in Brannenburg, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After producing several plays at theaters in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Cologne, he began to write and direct episodes for the TV series Der Fahnder.
WPeter Fleischmann is a German film director.
WWerner Funck was a German stage and film actor, singer and film director.
WHans W. Geißendörfer is a German film director and producer.
WJan-Ole Gerster is a German film director and screenwriter.
WNina Grosse is a German film director and screenwriter. She has directed 14 films since 1983. Her 2004 film Olga's Summer was entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.
WEgon Günther was a German film director and writer.
WReinhard Hauff is a German film director. His works, which were mostly carried out in the late 1960s to early 1990s, are known for their social and political commentary. Stammheim, which is based on the activities of the Red Army Faction won the Golden Bear award at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival in 1986. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1970 film Mathias Kneissl was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.
WVeit Helmer is a German film director and screenwriter. He started shooting films at the age of fourteen. After finishing school he was trainee at German TV station NDR. Two month before the wall came down, he moved to East-Berlin to study theatre directing at the famous drama school "Ernst Busch". From 1991 to 1997 Helmer studied film directing at HFF Munich. His first feature film Tuvalu earned more than 32 awards. His 2008 film Absurdistan was premiered in Sundance and entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
WChristoph Hochhäusler is a German film director and screenwriter. His film Falscher Bekenner was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His film The City Below was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
WHermine Huntgeburth is a German film director. She is best known for her 2005 film The White Masai.
WRainer Kaufmann is a German film director. He directed more than thirty films including The Pharmacist and Operation Zucker, a film about human trafficking.
WWolfgang Kohlhaase is a German film director and was one of GDR's most well-known and prolific film screenwriters. He was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
WLars Kraume is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed 35 films since 1996.
WJeanine Meerapfel is a German-Argentine film director and screenwriter. She has directed 17 films since 1966. In 1984, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.
WDaniel Nocke is a German screenwriter for film and television, and a director of animated shorts. He frequently works with director Stefan Krohmer on live action projects. His films have been shown at German and American film festivals and his animations have been featured on the American public television series The Short List.
WRudolf Noelte was a German film director, theater director and opera director.
WLeonhard "Leo" Peukert was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy The Happy Journey (1924), he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era.
WOskar Roehler is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film Jew Suss: Rise and Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
WMarcus H. Rosenmüller is a German film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the films Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot, Die Perlmutterfarbe and directed Sommer in Orange, Schwere Jungs and Beste Gegend.
WMarc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit. In 2005 he directed the film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, written by Fred Breinersdorfer, which was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film and received numerous other awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival.
WNesrin Şamdereli is a Turkish-German screenwriter of Zaza origin and film director. She directed for the first time the film adaptation of her screenplay for Delicious (2004).
WHans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.
WFranz Seitz Sr. was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 59 films between 1920 and 1951. His son Franz Seitz Jr. was a film producer.
WDaniel Stamm, is a German film director, screenwriter and editor. He directed the American horror film The Last Exorcism.
WWenzel Storch is a German film director and producer.
WKatharina Thalbach is a German actress and stage director.
WWerner W. Wallroth was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed sixteen films between 1961 and 1991. His 1983 film Zille and Me was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.
WWilliam Wauer (1866–1962) was a German sculptor and film director of the silent era. In 1913 he co-directed the biopic Richard Wagner (1913). In 1915 he directed The Tunnel the first adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's science fiction novel Der Tunnel.
WKai Wessel is a German film director. He has directed more than thirty films since 1988.
WMarc Wiese is a Dortmund-born German documentary filmmaker, best known for Camp 14: Total Control Zone, about Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have ever successfully escaped from a North Korean prison labor camp, and to breach the borders of North Korea itself to China, arriving eventually in South Korea.
WAdolf Winkelmann is a German film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is also a professor of film design in the department of design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
WFrank Wisbar was a German film director and screenwriter.
WÖzgür Yıldırım is a German-Turkish film director.
WHerrmann Zschoche is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed 25 films between 1961 and 1994. His 1981 film Bürgschaft für ein Jahr was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.