Hans Steinbichler

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Hans Steinbichler
Born1 November 1966
Solothurn, Switzerland
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active2011present

Hans Sebastian Steinbichler (born 1 November 1966 [1] ) is a German film director and screenwriter.

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Biography

Steinbichler grew up in Kothöd in Upper Bavaria. He got his Abitur at the Ludwig-Thoma-Gymnasium Prien am Chiemsee. Then he studied jurisprudence in Passau first, but in 1995 he decided to attend the University of Television and Film Munich, where he finished his studies in 2003.

In the same year, Steinbichler was awarded with the Förderpreis Deutscher Film and the golden Grimme-Preis for his debut film Hierankl . The leading actress Johanna Wokalek won the Bavarian Film Award. In 2007, Steinbichlers film Winter Journey got several nominations for the Deutscher Filmpreis and Die zweite Frau was awarded with the Grimme-Preis. Furthermore, Autistic Disco was nominated for the Förderpreis Deutscher Film on the Munich Film Festival. Two years later, Steinbichler contributed episode 11 (Fraktur) to the anthology film Germany 09 , which showed the situation in Germany at that time. In 2011, Steinbichler's melodramatic film Promising the Moon  [ de ] was awarded with the Bavarian Film Award.

From January 2013 to December 2014, Steinbichler worked as a professor for directing in cinema, TV and new media at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. In 2015, he was the director of Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank , a film about the Holocaust victim Anne Frank and her diary.

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References

  1. entry in the Munzinger archive