The Grimme-Preis is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme. It has been referred to in Kino magazine as the "German TV Oscar".
Bora Dağtekin is a German screenwriter and film director who has directed several of the most successful German-language films, notably Fack ju Göhte.
Oliver Michael Dittrich is a German television personality, comedian, actor, and musician.
Die Fussbroichs is a German television series by WDR Fernsehen. It was the offspring of a German documentary Die Fussbroichs - Ein Kinderzimmer 1979 by Westdeutsches Fernsehen, former name of WDR Fernsehen, shown on August 19, 1979. The pilot Die Fussbroichs — Eine Kölner Arbeiterfamilie - a documentary of 85 minutes — was shown on February 13, 1990. The television series launched in 1991, the first episode was shown on December 22, 1991, and ended in 2002. The 100th and last — former unbroadcast - episode Check-up was shown on December 26, 2003.
Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.
Gunnar Dedio is a German film producer and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing director of the film production company LOOKSfilm.
Ludwig Trepte is a German television and film actor best known internationally for a leading role as Viktor Goldstein in Generation War (2013) and for his role as Alexander Edel in the German miniseries Deutschland 83 (2015).
Oliver Stokowski is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for his per formance as Schütte - Prisoner No. 82 in Das Experiment. In 2014 he won the Grimme-Preis.
Baran bo Odar is a German film and television director and screenwriter. He is known for co-creating the Netflix series Dark (2017–2020) and 1899 (2022) with his creative and romantic partner, Jantje Friese.
Edward Berger is a German-Austrian and Swiss director and screenwriter. He notably directed German films Jack (2014), All My Loving (2019), and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). For the latter, Berger won multiple awards including the Oscar for best international feature film, BAFTA awards for Best Direction and Adapted Screenplay.
Jantje Friese is a German film producer and screenwriter known for co-creating the Netflix series Dark (2017–2020) and 1899 (2022) with her creative and romantic partner Baran bo Odar.
René Ifrah is an American actor born in Germany and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. He is best known for his role as Bibi Hamed on the Showtime series Homeland, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (2016). He is also known for his recurring roles on Showtime's crime drama Sneaky Pete, where he played the character of Wali (2017–2018); the Showtime Drama series The Affair (2017); and the Showtime comedy series Nurse Jackie (2009–2011).
Animanimals is a German flash-animated children's comedy television series. The series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder and Meta Media Entertainment, and airs on Kika and SWR in Germany. The series won a Grimme-Preis television award in 2019. It was a nominee for 2019's International Emmy Kids Award for Best Preschool series.
LOOKSfilm is a German film production company, based in Leipzig, Berlin, Hanover and Halle (Saale).
Clash of Futures is a documentary drama series by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio. The series is the continuation of 14 - Diaries of the Great War (2014) and tells the personal stories of thirteen people from all over Europe during the interwar period. The series was part of the eponymous project Clash of Futures. In addition to the series, the project included a theatrical and a radio piece, a book, various Europe-wide special exhibitions and a social media campaign. In the anniversary year of the end of the First World War, the eight-part series first aired September 11, 2018 on Arte.
Druck is a German teen drama streaming television series, based on the Norwegian TV series Skam, created by Julie Andem. It premiered with its first full episode on March 23, 2018 on Funk and YouTube.
Dignity is a Chilean-German thriller television series that first released on the German OTT streaming platform Joyn on December 19, 2019.
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu is a German-Romanian film director. For her film work, she has received a nomination for the European Film Award. She directed the international drama series Hackerville (2018) for HBO and TNT Serie as well as the German Netflix series We Are the Wave (2019) and the third season of the Amazon Prime series Hanna.
Sebastian Marka is a German film director and editor.
Erol Yesilkaya is a Turkish-German screenwriter.
