Dirk Schneider

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Dirk Schneider (born in 1968) is a German film director and author.

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Life and career

Dirk Schneider studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as an author during this time. In the early 1990s, he collaborated with Ariane Riecker and Annett Schwarz to produce the following non-fiction books: Stasi intim. Gespräche mit ehemaligen MfS-Angehörigen (Talking to former MfS officials) (1990) [1] and Laienspieler : sechs Politikerporträts (Amateur players: six political portraits) : Peter-Michael Diestel, Gregor Gysi, Regine Hildebrandt, Günther Krause, Wolfgang Thierse, Konrad Weiss : and an interview with Friedrich Schorlemmer (1991). [2]

Schneider then went into advertising. He was the owner and creative director of an advertising agency in Leipzig for ten years, but returned to film in 2005. First as co-author, then (since 2009) as author and director, he makes political and historical documentaries, reports, feature films and image films for various institutions and TV stations. His main topics are usually recent history of the GDR and Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. [3]

Filmography

Awards

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