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German film director, screen writer and journalist
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
21 January 1959(Starnberg, Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria)
Family:
Mother:
Gisela Elsner
Father:
Klaus Roehler
The details
Biography
Introduction
Oskar Roehler (born January 21, 1959) 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.
Partial filmography
- Gentleman (1995)
- Silvester Countdown (1997)
- Gierig (1999)
- No Place to Go (2000)
- Suck My Dick (2001)
- Beloved Sister (2002)
- Angst (2003)
- Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
- The Elementary Particles (2006)
- Lulu and Jimi (2009)
- Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
- Sources of Life (2013)
- Punk Berlin 1982 (2015)
- Subs (2017)