Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)

Reitz, born in Frankfurt am Main, studied German, theatre, film and television studies as well as psychology in Frankfurt (master’s degree).

From 1985 Bettina Reitz worked as a freelancer for Hessischer Rundfunk, among others, worked as an editor, assistant director for fictional films and as a producer, author and director of documentaries.
From 1988 to 1990 she was an editor at Hessischer Rundfunk.

In 1990 she switched to ZDF as a television and cinema editor, where she worked until 1997 , most recently as deputy editor-in-chief.

In 1998 Bettina Reitz moved to Munich and took over the development and management of the First Movie program for the Bavarian Film Center.

In 1999 Bettina Reitz was a founding member of the film and television production company teamWorx GmbH, where she worked as a producer.

In January 2003, Bettina Reitz switched to Bayerischer Rundfunk and succeeded Gabriela Sperl as head of the feature film series program area. From 2004 to April 2011 she was also a member of the joint editorial team “Vorabend im Erste”. In 2009 she received the Hans Abich Prize for outstanding services to television films. She has been involved in many award-winning series, television films, documentaries and feature films, including the Oscar®-winning films The Lives of Others, Amour and Citizensfour, or the multi-award-winning series and feature film Turkish for Beginners.

Bettina Reitz has received numerous nominations and awards over the course of her career, including several German television awards.

From May 2011 to May 2012, Reitz took over the management of Degeto Film GmbH. From June 2012 to September 2015 she was television director of Bayerischer Rundfunk.

For many years, Bettina Reitz was a regular guest lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and at the HFF Munich. She has been an honorary professor at HFF Munich since November 2012 . In June 2015 she was elected President of the HFF Munich by the University Council, the appointment by Minister of State Dr. Ludwig Spaenle took place in September 2015 , before Bettina Reitz took office on October 1, 2015 as the first full-time President of the HFF Munich. In February 2019, she was unanimously confirmed by the University Council of the HFF Munich for a second term of six years, which began in the winter semester 19/20 .

She is also a member of the German and European Film Academy and since March 2016 also Vice President of the German Academy of Performing Arts . From 2016 to 2020 she was a member of the Goethe Institute. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of TUM and the Deutsches Museum. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees for Young German Film since December 2020. Reitz has held various supervisory board mandates, including for Telepool, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Studio Hamburg GmbH and currently on the board of Leonine Holding GmbH. She is also regularly appointed to important film and media juries, such as the Bavarian Film and Television Prize, the Bernd Eichinger Prize, the Culture Prize of the City of Munich, the Bernd Burgemeister Prize and many more

In 2016, Bettina Reitz was awarded the state medal for special services to the Bavarian economy . In 2022, she received the Ellen Ammann Prize from the Catholic German Women’s Association in Bavaria for the development and concept of the first comprehensive equality format at a film school . Bettina Reitz has held the Bavarian Order of Merit since 2022 .

Stefan Arndt was born in Munich in 1961. Together with the directors Wolfgang Becker, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer, the producer founded the production company XFilme Creative Pool in 1994, which he now runs together with Uwe Schott. Big hits with audiences and critics like Tykwer’s LOLA RUN, Levy’s ALLES AUF ZUCKER or Becker’s GOOD BYE, LENIN! paved the way for international co-productions under German leadership, such as the award-winning Michael Haneke productions DAS WEISSE BAND and AMOUR, or Tom Tykwer’s and Lana & Andy Wachowski’s CLOUD ATLAS, the most expensive independently financed European film of all time.
In the year 2000, the founding of X Autovermietung followed, of which Stefan Arndt has been a shareholder and board member ever since. In addition, from 2001 to 2008 Arndt was a board member of film20 (association of German production companies with a 70% market share), has been a board member of the Alliance of German Producers Film & Television since 2008 and from 2003 to 2009 founding member and chairman of the board of the German Film Academy. Since 2013, Stefan Arndt has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which among other things decides annually on the awarding of the Oscars®. In addition, Stefan Arndt has been the operator of the cinemas since 1984: Zeise Kinos (Hamburg) and Thalia (Potsdam).

Beatrice Babin was born in Munich in 1964. She grew up in Munich and in Italy south of Rome.

She completed her studies in film studies and philosophy at the LMU in Munich with her master’s thesis on Fellini: The character of the clown as a border crosser between life and death.

She is a film editor and dramaturge for feature and documentary films.

Since 2017 she has also worked as a screenwriter for documentaries.

She has worked with various directors such as Emily Atef, Volker Koepp, Markus Imhoof, Cordula Kablitz, Elisa Mishto, Wim Wenders, Elke Hauck, Pierre-Alain Meier,
Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt…

Almost all films are cinema productions that have also been successful at festivals worldwide.

In addition to her passion for film montage, she has been appearing as a VJ with live video performances since 2018, especially in the “live cinema” genre.

Since 2019 she has shared the Chair of Assembly at the HFF with Michael Palm .

Producer, director and writer

* May 26, 1955 in Hanover

1973 A-levels at humanistic high school

1973 to 1975 stay in the USA: studied film and acting at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, studied at the New School of Social Research” in New York

1975 to 1978 studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich (at the same time she worked as a film critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung)

1997 appointed professor for applied dramaturgy and story development at the University of Television and Film in Munich

Lives in Munich

After studying art history in Bamberg and Berlin, Ingo Fliess worked as a script agent, editor and managing director at the authors’ publishing house in Frankfurt am Main. In 2007 he founded his independent production company if… Productions.
The portfolio includes nationally and internationally successful documentaries such as VOGELPERSPEKTIVEN (director: Jörg Adolph), ELTERNSCHULE (2018, director: Ralf Bücheler & Jörg Adolph), TACKLING LIFE (2018, director: Johannes List) and multiple award-winning feature films, including Ilker Çatak’s THE TEACHER’S ROOM (2022, awarded five German film prizes including Lola in gold for the best feature film), IT APPLIES THE SPOKEN WORD (German Film Prize in bronze) and Oliver Haffner’s WACKERSDORF (2018). The current productions of if… Productions include NEW STORIES VOM FRANZ (director: Johannes Schmid, in co-production), IM LAND DER WÖFE (2022, director Ralf Bücheler), GAME OVER (director: Jörg Adolph and Ralf Bücheler), MUTIGE GEHIRNE ( directed by Jörg Adolph) and FILMSTUNDE 23 (directed by Edgar Reitz). The film YELLOW BRIEFS (Director: Ilker Çatak) is currently being financed. Fliess is a member of the German and European Film Academy and on the board of directors of the producers’ association. In addition to his work as a producer, Fliess has also been a professor for production and media management at the HFF Munich since 2023.

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Fößel studied electrical engineering and began his professional career as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen. There he initially dedicated himself to the development of industrial electronic systems and cameras and did his doctorate on the subject of optimized image data distribution in multi-computer systems before turning to the media industry with a focus on digital cinema technology.

His entry into film technology began in 2000 with the management of the ISO standardization group JPEG2000 for digital cinema. On behalf of the ARRI company, he managed the electronics development of the first digital cinema cameras ARRI D20/D21. In addition, his team developed the certification test plan for digital cinema projector systems for the Hollywood Studios (DCI), which is still valid worldwide today. The development of the easyDCP software suite for mastering DCPs and IMFs led to strong networking with the post-production industry. He received the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for this particularly successful development.

As head of the department for moving image technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute, he is still involved in the development of new production workflows and software tools. In addition, he takes care of new possibilities of image acquisition and further processing based on computational imaging, such as light field and VR/AR applications. He leads these developments to generally available use in standardization groups at DIN, CEN and ISO. Siegfried Fößel is active on the boards of various organizations such as the Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft and the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers. He sees the combination of technical and creative skills as an important prerequisite for the creation of successful films.

Born in Augsburg, he studied economics and journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich as well as communication design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. After his doctorate in finance, Professor Dr. Gerhard Fuchs two years as a scientific assistant at the University of Augsburg. professor dr Gerhard Fuchs began his career at Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1978 as an editor in the TV business department. From 1982 to 1985 he was the representative of Bavarian Radio in the political department of ARD. There he moderated the “Tagesthemen” in the first and headed the editorial office of the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen in the Bayerischer Rundfunk until 1987. He then took over the management of the main department for program management and television. In 1990 he was appointed head of the politics and current affairs program area and deputy editor-in-chief of Bavarian television. From August 1991 to June 1993, Professor Dr. Gerhard Fuchs First editor-in-chief of ARD-Aktuell in Hamburg and thus responsible for “Tagesschau”, “Tagesthemen” and “Wochenspiegel”. He then returned to Bayerischer Rundfunk as editor-in-chief for television. He moderated the “ARD Press Club” until 2001. professor dr From September 1, 1995 to May 31, 2012, Gerhard Fuchs was television director of Bayerischer Rundfunk and from 1999 to 2012 coordinator for the ARD family program. Under his leadership as television director, Bayerischer Rundfunk was the only public broadcaster in Germany to start a second full television program in 1998, the educational channel BR-alpha. Since 1997 Professor Dr. Gerhard Fuchs honorary professor and head of the “Documentary Film and Television Journalism” department at the HFF. From October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2015 he was President of the HFF.

The author and director born in Frankfurt am Main in 1956, worked as an assistant director and series writer after completing his studies at the HFF. Munich-based producer Georg Althammer helped him with his first TV directing opportunity on the series “Das Nest,” later on the crime series “Ein Fall für zwei” (A Case for Two). Gutmann went on to direct more crime formats for various production companies and broadcasters. In 1995, he created the dark comedy “ROHE OSTERN,” written by Mathias Dinter, produced by HFF graduates Mischa Hofmann and Philip Voges.

When Hans-Christian Schmid needed assistance in developing the material for his cinematic debut “NACH FÜNF IM URWALD” (After Five in the Jungle) in 1995, producer Jakob Claussen had the idea to bring Schmid and Gutmann together. This led to a collaboration that lasted for many years. Together, they developed the screenplay for the TV movie “NUR FÜR EINE NACHT” (Just for One Night, 1996), which Gutmann directed. Gutmann was Schmid’s co-author in four directorial projects:

• “23 – Nichts ist wie es scheint” (23 – Nothing is as It Seems, 1997),
• “CRAZY” (1999),
• “LICHTER” (2002),
• “WIR SIND DANN WOHL DIE ANGEHÖRIGEN” (2021).

Gutmann also directed the jointly developed screenplay for the film “HERZ ÜBER KOPF” (Heart Over Head, 2001).

Gutmann gained significant attention with his Tatort episode “DER OIDE DEPP” (The Old Fool, 2007), partly due to the strong script by Alexander Adolph and the cinematography by HFF graduate Kay Gauditz. The producer was Bernd Burgemeister.

Based on the life memories of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Gutmann wrote the TV movie “MEIN LEBEN” (MY LIFE) in 2009. Directed by Dror Zahavi, produced by Katharina Trebitsch.

In 2010, Gutmann directed the TV movie “DIE LETZTEN 30 JAHRE” (THE LAST 30 YEARS), written by Ruth Toma, produced by Rima Schmidt for Mischa Hofmann’s Odeon Film.

The following year, Gutmann directed the Franconian crime drama “BAMBERGER REITER” (Bamberg Rider), written by Peter Probst, produced by Sven Burgemeister. He collaborated again with Burgemeister on his most recent directorial work “DIE HÖLLE BIN ICH” (I Am Hell, 2014), written by Alexander Adolph and Eva Wehrum. The film was part of the then-new crime series “München Mord” (Munich Murder).

In 2018, Gutmann worked as a co-author for the novel adaptation “ALS HITLER DAS ROSA KANINCHEN STAHL” (WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT), directed by Caroline Link, produced by Jochen Laube at Sommerhaus Filmproduktion. In the same year, Gutmann collaborated with director/editor Max Fey on his cinematic debut “ZWISCHEN UNS” (BETWEEN US, 2021).

The cinematic screenplay “WIR SIND DANN WOHL DIE ANGEHÖRIGEN” (I Guess We Are the Relatives) was adapted into a film by Hans-Christian Schmid in 2021. The source material is the book of the same name by Johann Scheerer, published by Piper Verlag.

Since 2005, Gutmann has been teaching at the HFF München and has been the managing director of the newly established screenplay department since 2009. He contributes to the development of numerous films.

Julia von Heinz , born in Berlin in 1976, already realized the award-winning short films TUESDAYS (2001), DORIS (2002) and LUCIE & VERA (2003) while she was still studying, for which she was responsible as author, director and producer. Based on the story about LUCIE & VERA, Julia von Heinz developed her feature film debut WHAT AM END COUNTS (2008). The film was screened in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the 2007 Berlinale and was awarded the German Film Prize in Gold for Best Children’s and Youth Film. For her next project, the documentary STANDESGEMÄSS (2008) about noble single women, she received the 2009 Bavarian Television Prize for Young Talent.
In 2012, the mother of three directed the successful children’s film HANNI UND NANNI 2, which was awarded three Golden Sparrows, based on Enid Blyton’s world bestseller of the same name.
Together with her fellow directors Tom Tykwer, Chris Kraus, Robert Thalheim and Axel Ranisch, she made the documentary ROSAKINDER (2012) about their common mentor Rosa von Praunheim, for whom Julia von Heinz worked from 2005 to 2006 as an artistic assistant at the Konrad Film and Television Academy Wolf was in Potsdam. In 2014 she directed and wrote the international co-production HANNAS REISE, which was a hit in art house cinemas in Germany and Israel.
Her fourth feature film, ICH BIN THEN MAL WEG (2015) based on the bestseller by Hape Kerkeling, attracted 2 million viewers in German cinemas. The subsequent TV hit KATHARINA LUTHER (2016) had over 7 million viewers on ARD; it also received the special director’s prize at the television festival in Baden-Baden and was nominated for the Grimme Prize.
Julia von Heinz’ Tatort FOR ALWAYS AND DICH for the SWR was awarded the Special Prize Directing at the Crime Festival Wiesbaden 2019 as well as the Television Film Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts and the Hans Abich Honorary Award of the Television Film Festival Baden-Baden.
Your current feature film UND TOMORROW THE WHOLE WORLD will soon celebrate its world premiere and will be screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.

• Born October 17, 1959 in Essen. Studied theatre, film and television, German and history at the University of Cologne.
• 1984 co-founder of the international women’s film festival Feminale, 14 years co-organizer and programmer.
• From 1990 cultural editor of the Stadtrevue Köln. Co-editor of “Blue Wonders. New Films and Videos by Women 1984-1994”.
• From 1995 freelance radio and television author, numerous television reports for WDR Cologne, among others. Also articles in film magazines, lectures and courses, among others at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the International Film School Cologne, the University of Bochum, the UDK Berlin and the Art University Linz.
• From 2000 direction and production of long documentaries. Awards include: FIPRESCI Award Berlinale Forum 2001, Arte Documentary Film Award 2003, Adolf Grimme Award 2004, nomination for the Adolf Grimme Awards 2006 and 2012.
• From 2017 professorship for documentary film at the HFF Munich.
• Currently lives and works. in Berlin and Munich.

Nadia Kailouli is the host of the Grimme Prize-nominated podcast einsbiszwei about sexism, sexual assault and sexual violence against children and young people. She also moderates the ARD lunchtime magazine and is a reporter for the NDR Kulturjournal. In 2020, she was awarded the Grimme Prize, the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Prize, the DRK Media Prize and the NDR Sehstern for her SeaWatch3 report. In the same year, the Grimme Online Award in the Information category went to STRG_F von Funk – Nadia Kailouli has been part of the group of young reporters from STRG_F since the beginning of the format, who “report subjectively and closely about what moves them; it’s about politics, cultures, movements and a fascination for the new, the unknown.”

Prof. Franz Kraus, born in 1947, has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the ARRI Group in Munich since September 2018, a global group of companies in the film and media industry with 1,500 employees worldwide. From June 2001 he was Chief Technology Officer responsible for research and development. Franz Kraus joined ARRI in 1983 as Technical Director. Numerous management positions followed. Under his aegis, ARRI received a total of nine awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding technical achievements, including for the development of the ARRILASER film imagesetter and the ALEXA digital camera system. In 2011, Franz Kraus was personally honored with an Academy Award of Merit, an Oscar statuette – the highest honor in the film industry worldwide. In 2004 he was appointed honorary professor and head of the technology department at the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich. He is now head of the camera department. In addition, Franz Kraus was appointed curator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (ISS), at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) and a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Before joining ARRI, Franz Kraus worked as an engineer at Rohde & Schwarz and at HHI in Germany and as a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories in the USA. He studied communications engineering in Regensburg. In addition, Franz Kraus was appointed curator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (ISS), at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) and a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Before joining ARRI, Franz Kraus worked as an engineer at Rohde & Schwarz and at HHI in Germany and as a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories in the USA. He studied communications engineering in Regensburg. In addition, Franz Kraus was appointed curator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (ISS), at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) and a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Before joining ARRI, Franz Kraus worked as an engineer at Rohde & Schwarz and at HHI in Germany and as a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories in the USA. He studied communications engineering in Regensburg.

Scientific career

1983 – 1989 Studied theatre, film and television studies, German and library science at the University of Cologne
1985 – 1989 Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
02/1989 Magister Artium at the University of Cologne: “The most beautiful woman on the screen: Der Fall Greta Garbo” (published as “The Most Beautiful Woman on the Screen: The Fabrication of the Star Greta Garbo”)
1988 1st prize in the ZDF video competition “Fairy Tales” with “A spoon for Manfred” (broadcast on ZDF in the program “Manfred’s spoon and other fairy tales”); Invitation of the Goethe-Institut Osaka to Japan for a video project on the topic “kites”
1989 – 1994Research assistant at the Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne
Summer 1991 Guest lecturer at the University of Ibaraki, in Mito (Japan)
02/1994 Doctorate at the University of Cologne: “Hans Albers. Analysis of a career” (published as: “Hans Albers. A German career”)
1994 – 2000 research assistant at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne
1996 Prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Foundation for an outstanding scientific work (for the book: “Hans Albers. A German Career”)
2001Habilitation at the University of Cologne: “Film narratives. Narrative structures in feature films of classic Hollywood cinema” (published as: “Dramaturgie des Films”) 04/2001
– 10/2001 Substitute C4 professorship “European Media Studies” at the University of Potsdam
Since 10/ 2001 Chair of “Communication and Media Studies” at the University of Television and Film, Munich
2002 – 2013 Vice President of the University of Television and Film, Munich

Martin Moszkowicz is CEO of Constantin Film AG and, in addition to corporate management and strategy, is also responsible for the areas of film production, world sales, film purchasing, marketing & press as well as corporate communications and law. On March 6, 2019, Martin Moszkowicz was appointed honorary professor at HFF Munich.

As a producer, executive producer and co-producer, Martin Moszkowicz has been responsible for numerous nationally and internationally successful feature films and television productions and has been involved in over 300 productions.

His most recent projects include RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (2017), FACK JU GOEHTE 1-3 (2013, 2015, 2017; Producer of the first two parts was HFF graduate Tina Kringer), DIESES BESCHEUERTE HERZ (2017; Producer was HFF -Alumna Viola Jäger), DER VORNAME (2018; director HFF alumnus Sönke Wortmann, camera HFF alumnus Jo Heim), POLAR (2019), DER FALL COLLINI (2019; producer HFF alumna Kerstin Schmidbauer), THE SILENCE (2019) , THE PERFECT SECRET (2019), DRAGONRIDER (2020; producer HFF alumna Marina Voeth) and MONSTER HUNTER (2020).

Michael Palm was born in 1965 in Linz, Austria. He is a film editor/dramaturg and director/author of documentaries, shorts and experimental films. He also works as a music and sound designer. His films are successfully presented at international festivals, are shown in cinemas, are co-financed, purchased and broadcast by international TV stations, and have received numerous awards. His third feature-length documentary, Cinema Futures, premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. As an editor and sound designer, Michael Palm has designed over 20 short films and 25 feature films.

Michael Palm studied from 1985-93 at the Vienna Film Academy and at the University of Vienna in the fields of philosophy, film and media studies (diploma, MA). He is the author of numerous lectures and publications on the theory, history and aesthetics of film and cinema, was a film critic (Der Standard, Falter) from 1990-94 and lecturer at the Vienna Film Academy from 1998-2015; he is currently supervising teaching assignments at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the Art University in Linz. Since October 2019 he has shared the “Assembly” chair at the HFF with Beatrice Babin.

Palm was a founding member of PVS Verleger and Navigator Film and is a member of Verband Filmregie Österreich, of dok.at – Austrian Documentary Interest Group, of AEA – Austrian Association of Film and Video Editing and of SYNEMA, Society for Film and Media.
He lives and works in Vienna and Munich.

Henning Patzner is a freelance creative director and trainer for creativity and innovation. Before that he worked as a copywriter and creative director for Germany’s most creative advertising agencies. These include Jung von Matt, Saatchi & Saatchi, Grabarz & Partner and Scholz & Friends. Most recently, he worked as creative director for the largest owner-managed advertising agency in Europe (Serviceplan Group).
He has been working in the creative and innovation industry for almost 20 years now. He is co-developer of many commercials, digital concepts and well-known marketing campaigns. As a creative, Henning Patzner has already looked after over 75 top brands and won over 150 national and international creative prizes and awards. Including Cannes lions and a golden Effie.
He is a member of the Art Directors Club Germany and is the author of the book “Creative Explosion”, which was published by Campus Verlag.

Christian Rein was born in 1970 and has been working as a cameraman since 2000. With the spray drama WHOLETRAIN he and director Florian Gaag celebrated worldwide festival successes in 2009; Rein received the Adolf Grimme Prize for his camera work. To this day, Christian Rein has been in charge of the camera on numerous national and international and very diverse projects, including feature films and documentaries, commercials and music videos. He has repeatedly worked closely with HFF Munich alumni*ae, including producers Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg, as well as directors Christian Ditter, Florian Gallenberger, Wim Wenders and Hans Steinbichler. Christian Rein was honored with the German Camera Award in 2009 for Steinbichler’s THE SECOND WOMAN. Christian Rein has also been giving lectures, web seminars and workshops for a good ten years – at the HFBK Hamburg,

Author, producer & managing director at Phantomfilm GmbH
Romey was born on September 23, 1969 in West Virginia, USA, has lived in Turkey, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. He studied acting, directing and dramaturgy in the USA and graduated from the renowned Brown University in the US state of Rhode Island. He is a freelance author, producer and managing director of Phantomfilm GmbH. In the past he has repeatedly been a guest lecturer for material development seminars or serial content at the HFF Munich. He also regularly works with students and alumni of HFF Munich in his writer’s room for the web series DER LACK IST AB. DER LACK IST AB is Germany’s most successful web series. The series is produced by the company Phantomfilm GmbH, which Tac Romey founded and runs as managing director together with Rob van Binsbergen.

Marcus H. Rosenmüller
…was born in Tegernsee in 1973 and grew up in Hausham in Upper Bavaria. From 1995 to 2002 he studied at the HFF Munich. His feature film WHO DIES EARLIER IS LONGER TOT, for which he also wrote the screenplay together with Christian Lerch, gave him his breakthrough.
From 2006, the successful tandem trilogy was created: after BESTE ZEIT and BESTE GEGEND, the final part, BESTE CHANCE, was shot in Upper Bavaria and India in 2013.
From 2006 to 2020, Rosenmüller was able to realize a total of 12 feature films.
In addition to his passion for film, Marcus H. Rosenmüller is always drawn to the stage. Since 2007 he has been touring Germany together with the composer Gerd Baumann with joint poems.
In 2019, two films by Rosenmüller were successfully shown in cinemas: TRAUTMANN and the children’s film UNHEIMLICH PERFEKTE FREUNDE.

Together with his former fellow student Johannes Kaltenhauser, he has been filming a documentary about the band DREIVIERTELBLUT for over 4 years, which will start in cinemas in August 2020.

He is currently working on the animated film “ROTZSBUB” and preparing a comedy “BECKENRANDSHERIFF” with Milan Peschel in the lead role.

Dr Sylvia Rothe – mathematician, software developer, filmmaker, AI professor
Dr Sylvia Rothe studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she then worked as a research assistant. She then worked as a software developer and in business development for Siemens and Fujitsu-Siemens, among others, and has already realized several part-time film projects. She also attended courses in film design and then turned this passion into a career in 2011. In the same year she took part in the training initiative European Social Documentary for documentary filmmakers, which focuses on the possibilities of innovative storytelling methods. While working for a Munich film production company, Dr. Sylvia Rothe is increasingly dealing with the topic of inclusive media and thus came into contact with virtual reality. She realized various VR film projects and started her dissertation on this topic in 2017. As a doctoral student, she also supervised numerous student projects on virtual and augmented reality as well as AI and led corresponding internships. Her scientific work has been presented at various conferences (Best Paper Award TVX 2019) and published in scientific journals. In 2020 she completed her PhD in Cinematic Virtual Reality.
For teaching, Dr. Sylvia Rothe, to convey AI in a very practical way and, among other things, to show its use in film production. As examples, she sees searching through large amounts of film data, training camera drones and generating special film sequences using deepfake technologies. In the area of ​​research, Rothe would like to use her first months at the HFF Munich primarily to enter into discourse with the various departments and colleagues and to work out together where AI can support processes in media production. From this she will then derive the limitation of her research direction. Of particular interest for the film sector, Dr. Sylvia Rothe multimodal approaches: “A lot of previous research has focused exclusively on a special medium such as text, audio or images.

• Scientific work in the field of Cinematic Virtual Reality (Best Paper Award TVX 2019)
• Conducting internships on AR/VR and AI
• Supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses on AR/VR and AI
• Graduate mathematician
• 18 years of experience in software development
• 6 years as a freelance filmmaker (documentary films and multimedia projects)

Education

• Doctorate in media informatics at the LMU Munich (3rd prize at the ARD/ZDF sponsorship prize »Women + Media Technology« 2021)
• ESoDoc 2011 (European Social Documentary)
• Research studies in mathematics – Humboldt University in Berlin
• Studies in mathematics – Humboldt University of Berlin
• Abitur in the special class for mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Professional career

2017-2022: Research assistant/doctoral student, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Chair of Media Informatics and Human-Machine Interaction
2015-2017: Multimedia projects, virtual reality/ 360°Film – Projects
2011 – 2017: Freelance documentary filmmaker
2005 – 2010: Business development, Fujitsu-Siemens, Fujitsu
1991 – 2005: Software development, Siemens-Nixdorf and Siemens
1989 – 1991: Research associate, Humboldt University of Berlin, mathematics department

Prof. Jürgen Schopper (born 1968) studied painting, design and digital imaging.
He worked as a freelance computer animator and as a production designer for film and TV productions before joining 20th Century Fox as a computer animation artist for “Independence Day” in 1995. The film received the 1996 Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.
Back in Germany, Jürgen Schopper is signed to ARRI Film & TV as Visual Effects Supervisor. As a result, he will be given the newly created position of Creative Director for VFX. In this role, he primarily oversees feature film productions, but also TV movies, series and major events. He received many other prizes and awards for his work.
He is a speaker at universities, trade fairs and specialist congresses and writes articles for magazines and specialist journals.
In 2001, Jürgen Schopper was appointed professor at the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm. At the Faculty of Design, he heads the “FILM & ANIMATION” course and initiates the film festival “ohmrolle” in Nuremberg’s largest cinema, which becomes a career platform for many students.

A large number of his graduates are now themselves successfully employed worldwide in the field of visual effects.
Since October 2019, Jürgen Schopper has been involved in the development of the new study focus VFX as part of a partial secondment from the TH Nuremberg to the HFF Munich.
In May 2020, the State Ministry for Science and Art gave its approval for the establishment of the major in “Image Design with a focus on Cinematography or with a focus on Visual Effects” on the basis of the concept presented by the university. The first students will start there in October 2020.
From April 2021, Jürgen Schopper will take over the professorship for the VFX major at the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich.

Prof. Jürgen Schopper is a member of the German Film Academy, in the Visual Effects section.

Academic career

1982 – 1984 Studied mechanical engineering at the University of Duisburg up to the pre-diploma
Start of freelance photographic work
1984 – 1985 Internships with several advertising photographers in Düsseldorf and in the research and development department of AGFA AG, Leverkusen
1985 – 1991 Studied photo engineering from the Cologne University of Applied Sciences with a focus on film and television production
1991 Diploma: “Contribution to a technically and scientifically well-founded way of working with the video camera” with Prof. Dr. -Ing. Franz Stollenwerk together with Detlef Möllering
1985 – 1989 projectionist in Cologne’s arthouse cinema Metropolis
1992Traineeship with Lars von Trier, funded by the Filmstiftung NRW
1992 – 1995 Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in the field of television/film
1995 Diploma in audiovisual media with Prof. Jeanine Meerapfel with the short film “Der Gefrorene Moment”
2013 Doctorate in engineering at the Faculty of Architecture of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on the topic “The role of the user in university construction. User representation and user coordination using the example of film schools”

Gabriela Sperl did her doctorate with Thomas Nipperdey and worked as an assistant at the LMU Munich.

She worked for many years as a freelance dramaturge for the Bavarian Radio. She supervised young people in the screenplay workshop in Berlin and Munich, she held courses at the DFFB, Berlin. For years she was on the advisory board of “Lindenstraße”, supervised films such as “Father and Son – the story of eoplauen” by Bertram von Boxberg. She wrote and made documentaries such as “Das Dreikaiserjahr” (The Year of the Three Emperors) in 1988. After working for several years as a freelance dramaturge, Gabriela Sperl headed the music and television drama program department at Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1998 to 2002. During this time, numerous successful and award-winning cinema and TV productions were created. She also continued to show great commitment in the area of ​​promoting young talent. At the beginning of January 2003, Gabriela Sperl became self-employed as a producer and author with her own production and project development company. Together with teamWorx she produced the award-winning historical event film “Stauffenberg” by Jo Baier. In 2006, the two-parter “Helen, Fred and Ted” (director: Sherry Hormann) was broadcast and “Not All Were Murderers”, a film by Jo Baier (director and script) based on the childhood memories of Michael Degen.

In addition, Gabriela Sperl has made a name for herself as a screenwriter for many years. With their successful and award-winning TV films such as “Ghettokids” (director: Christian Wagner), “Bobby” (director: Vivian Naefe) or “Who Colleagues Need No Enemies” (director: Martin Enlen) “Love and Other Disasters” ( Director: Bernd Fischerauer) and “Dr. Black and Dr. Martin” (Directors: Xaver Schwarzenberger and Bernd Fischerauer), the doctor of history succeeds again and again in telling stories with socio-political aspirations.
She produced and wrote the successful ARD two-parter “Die Flücht” (director: Kai Wessel) with Nico Hofmann for teamworx.

In early 2006, Gabriela Sperl and producer Uwe Schott founded a joint production company. She produced “The Last Piece of Heaven” (director and script: Jo Baier), “The Second Woman” by Hans Steinbichler and, together with Uwe Schott, “Lulu and Jimi” (director: Oskar Roehler).
In 2007/2008 she produced the successful ARD film “Mogadishu” (script: Philip Remy and Gabriela Sperl, director: Roland Suso Richter).

In 2009 she produced the film “In aller Stille” (script: Ariela Bogenberger, director: Rainer Kaufmann).
At the end of 2009 she founded the sperl productions and in 2010 she realized the socially critical television film “The Dark Nest” (written by Andreas Dirr, directed by Christine Hartmann).
In 2011, Gabriela Sperl produced the comedy “Oma in Roma” (script: Gabriela Sperl and Jane Ainscough, director: Tomy Wigand) and the debut feature film “Die Brücke am Ibar” (script and director: Michaela Kezele) as well as the two television comedies “Doppelgängerin ‘ and ‘Weddings’ (Director: Niki Müllerschön).
In 2012, the TV film “Operation Zucker” (director: Rainer Kaufmann) and the cinema comedy “300 Words German” (director: Züli Aladag) were made.
In 2013, Gabriela Sperl produced “Die Spiegel Affair” under the umbrella of W&B together with Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.
In 2014, the successful ZDF three-part series TANNBACH – Destiny of a Village was created in the same constellation.
In 2015, the NSU three-part series was filmed, which was broadcast in March and April 2016.
With her productions, Gabriela Sperl has won multiple Grimme awards. She received the Golden Camera, the Bambi, the CIVIS Media Prize, the German Film Prize, the German Television Prize, the Baden-Baden Television Prize, the Karl Buchrucker Prize, the 3-Sat Viewer Prize, the Shanghai Festival Prize, the DIVA Award and the Nymphe d’Or at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo and the TV Awards in Banff.

Doron Wisotzky was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1980. After graduating from high school in his hometown of Bad Nauheim and training as a media manager, he began studying at the University of Television and Film in Munich in 2004. He majored in directing and screenwriting, and before graduating in 2012, he shot the award-winning short films “Head Matter” and “Kosher”. During his studies, he worked as an assistant director on the Tatort episode “Der oide Depp” and on the WDR television film “The Last Thirty Years”.

In 2009 he met Matthias Schweighöfer, who was looking for an author after founding his production company Pantaleon Films. Schweighöfer and Wisotzky hit it off right away and their first joint project, Matthias Schweighöfer’s directorial debut “What a Man”, became a hit with the public in 2011. “Schlussmacher”, which was released in cinemas in 2013, even surpassed the success of “What a Man” and won the German Film Prize in the audience category.

The comedy “Half Brothers” directed by Christian Alvart, for which Wisotzky wrote the screenplay, was released in cinemas from April 2015. Wisotzky is also working on his debut as a director, which he will produce together with Olga Film and Constantin Film. Further screenplays and directing projects are in development.

Wisotzky has been teaching at the HFF Munich since 2013 and has been the head of the script department there since 2014.

Born in 1960 in Prague. Studied film & television at the Academy of Arts in Vienna and graduated in camera and editing. Screenwriting workshops with Robert MacKee and Syd Field. Years of intensive cooperation with Werner Herzog. Numerous awards, including:

2012 Romy for Best Camera in “Pursued – The Little Witness”
2011 German Camera Award for “Pursued – The Little Witness”
2011 Best Camera in “Hated” at the Williamsburg International Film Festival NY
2010 Nomination Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography in Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans
2009 Oscar nomination Best non fiction feature film for Encounters at the End of the World
2009 Cinema Eye Award for Best Cinematography in Encounters at the End of the World
2007 Romy for Best Camera in “Dream Hotel Africa”