42 Notable alumni of
University of Television and Film Munich
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The University of Television and Film Munich is 943rd in the world, 330th in Europe, and 41st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 42 notable alumni from the University of Television and Film Munich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Roland Emmerich
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1977
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Roland Emmerich is a German-American filmmaker. Emmerich is widely known for his science fiction and disaster films and has been called a "master of disaster" within the movie industry. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the 17th-highest-grossing Hollywood director of all time.
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Wim Wenders
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1967-1970
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- directorscreenwriterphotographerfilm produceruniversity teacher
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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German filmmaker and author, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice, and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
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Baran bo Odar
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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.
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Jeanette Hain
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied direction
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Jeanette Hain is a German film actress. She appeared in more than 90 film and television productions since 1990. Hein is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Ralph Fiennes' girlfriend in the Academy Award-winning film The Reader (2008).
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director. He is best known for writing and directing the 2006 dramatic thriller Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also wrote and directed the 2010 romantic thriller The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and the 2018 epic drama Never Look Away.
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Bernd Eichinger
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- 1970-1973 studied direction
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Bernd Eichinger was a German film producer, screenwriter, and director.
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Michael Schanze
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Michael Schanze is a German television presenter and singer.
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Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt
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- television producertelevision presenterjournalistentrepreneur
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Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt is a German author, television presenter and talkshow host.
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Torben Liebrecht
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Torben Liebrecht is a German actor.
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Annika Blendl
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Annika Greta Blendl is a German actress, film director, and film producer.
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Sönke Wortmann
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Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.
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Doris Dörrie
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1975
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Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.
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Hito Steyerl
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Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has been a professor of Current Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2024. Until 2024, she was a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin.
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Maren Ade
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1998-2004
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Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she runs the production company Komplizen Film. She is best known for her film Toni Erdmann, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Mika Kaurismäki
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Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.
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Dennis Gansel
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1994-2000
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Dennis Gansel is a German film director and screenwriter.
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Caroline Link
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Caroline Link is a German TV and film director and screenwriter.
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Dominik Graf
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1974
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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.
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Marcus H. Rosenmüller
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Marcus H. Rosenmüller is a German film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the films Grave Decisions, Little White Lies and directed My Life in Orange, Heavyweights and The Best Place to Be.
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Florian Gallenberger
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1992
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Florian Gallenberger is a German film director and writer. His film Quiero ser (I want to be...) was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.
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Sherry Hormann
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Sherry Hormann is a German-American film director. Hormann is best known for her movies Guys and Balls (2004), Desert Flower (2009) and 3096 Days (2013).
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Katja von Garnier
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 1989-1994
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Katja von Garnier is a German film director.
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Rainer Kaufmann
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Rainer Kaufmann is a German film director. He directed more than thirty films including The Pharmacist and Operation Sugar, a film about human trafficking.
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Hans-Christian Schmid
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Hans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.
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Frauke Finsterwalder
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Frauke Finsterwalder is a German film director and screenwriter. Finsterwalder has directed several shorts and documentaries. Her feature film directorial debut, Finsterworld, was released in 2013. For her second feature film, Sisi & I, released in 2023, she was awarded the Bavarian Film Award for Best Director.
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Christian Becker
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Christian Becker is a German film producer. He is the co-owner of Rat Pack Filmproduktion together with German major studio Constantin Film.
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Benjamin Heisenberg
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- 1997-2005 graduated with Diplom in film direction
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Benjamin Heisenberg is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed sixteen films since 1995. His film Schläfer was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film, The Robber, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Yasemin Şamdereli
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Yasemin Şamdereli is a German actress, screenwriter and film director. Her film Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland had its U.S. premiere at the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco on 20 October 2011.
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Uisenma Borchu
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Uisenma Borchu is a Mongolian-German film maker and film actress. In 1989, she moved with her family from Communist Mongolia to East Germany—which was on the brink of reunification, where she grew up. During the period of 2006 to 2015 she studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film in Munich.
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Max Färberböck
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Max 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.
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Byambasuren Davaa
- Enrolled in the University of Television and Film Munich
- Studied in 2000
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Byambasuren Davaa, also known as Davaagiin Byambasüren, is a Mongolian filmmaker currently residing in Germany.
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Veit Helmer
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Veit 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 (starring Denis Lavant and Chulpan Khamatova) earned more than 32 awards. His 2008 film Absurdistan was premiered in Sundance and entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Rob Houwer
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Robert Piet Houwer is a Dutch film producer. He studied at the University of Television and Film Munich, Germany. In 1964 he directed the short film Anmeldung (Declaration) which was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlin Filmfest. During the 1960s, Rob Houwer became one of the most prolific producers in Germany, with directors Volker Schlöndorff (A Degree of Murder, Man on Horseback), Peter Fleischmann (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria), Johannes Schaaf (Tattoo), Michael Verhoeven (Up the Establishment, o.k.) and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (Romy: Anatomy of a Face).
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Christoph Hochhäusler
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Christoph 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.
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Jakob M. Erwa
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Jakob Moritz Erwa is an Austrian director, screenwriter, film producer.
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Benjamin Herrmann
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- film editorfilm producertelevision producer
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Benjamin Herrmann is a German film producer and distributor.
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Robert Sigl
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Robert Sigl is a German film director and writer. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich from 1981-1986. His short film The Christmas Tree (German: Der Weihnachtsbaum) was shown at international festivals in Madrid and Berlin. In 1987 he started preparations for his first full-length motion picture Laurin in Hungary, which he also scripted.
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Esther Gronenborn
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Esther Gronenborn is a German film director and screenwriter. Films she wrote and directed include Alaska.de (2000), Adil geht (2005), Berlin Stories (2005), and a segment of 99euro-films (2001). She has also been a director of the TV series Galileo Mystery.
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Jaione Camborda
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Jaione Camborda Coll is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Camborda's second feature, The Rye Horn (2023), won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
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Nina Grosse
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Nina 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.
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Oliver Herbrich
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Oliver Herbrich is a German filmmaker working as an author, film director and producer. He is associated with the very end of the New German Cinema movement. From 2016 to 2018, his films were digitally remastered and re-released in the Fiction – Non-Fiction Film Edition. In 2018, the Film Museum Düsseldorf added all archival documents to its collection.
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Andrea Heuser
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Andrea Heuser is a German writer, poet, translator and literary scholar.
