Robert Thalheim (born July 2, 1974, in

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) is a German stage and film director and screenwriter. Thalheim was an assistant director at the ''

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'' in 1997–98. He then studied modern German literature, history and politics at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

until the year 2000; during this period he edited the first issues of the culture magazine ''Plotky''. In 2000 he began to study film directing at the ''Filmhochschule'' (film school) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Short biographical listing by an agency. His teacher there was

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, who monitored his work on his first films. Thalheim shot the film ''Pink Children'' (2012) together with 4 German directors about their mentor

. Robert Thalheim returned to the theatre in 2003, staging his own play, ''Wild Boys'' at the

Maxim Gorki Theater The Maxim Gorki Theatre (german: Maxim Gorki Theater) is a theatre in Berlin-Mitte named after the Soviet writer, Maxim Gorky. In 2012, the Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit named Şermin Langhoff as the artist director of the theatre. History It ...

in Berlin. In 2004 his debut film Netto was awarded the Art of Film Award at the Festival of German Film. In 2006 he finished his film for the diploma exam, ''

And Along Come Tourists ''And Along Come Tourists'' is a 2007 German dramatic film that was written and directed by Robert Thalheim. The principal characters are a young German doing civilian service at the former German Auschwitz concentration camp and an elderly ca ...

'' (''Am Ende kommen Touristen''). The film was shot on location at the

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, where Thalheim was a volunteer in 1996–97, and near the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

. This documentary film, produced by Hans-Christian Schmid and Britta Knöller, was presented at the

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in 2007 and was released in Germany in August 2007.

Filmography

* '' Netto'' (2005) * ''

'' (2007) * '' Westwind'' (2011) * ' (2013) * '' Kundschafter des Friedens'' (2017)

Awards

* Best Script Award at the

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2005 for the feature film ''Netto'' * German Cinemaprize 2005 for ''Netto'' * German film critic-prize 2006, “best film debut” for ''Netto'' * German "Kritikerpreis" 2008

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* 1974 births Living people Film people from Berlin German film directors German screenwriters German theatre directors {{screenwriter-stub

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