Timm Kröger (born 17 November 1985) is a German film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer and film editor.

Life and career

Born in

Itzehoe Itzehoe (; nds, Itzhoe) is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, 51 km (31.7 mi) northwest of Hamburg and 24 ...

, Kröger studied at the

European Film College European Film College (Danish: Den Europæiske Filmhøjskole) is a film school and a Danish folk high school in Denmark, offering 1-year film foundation programme in practical filmmaking covering the fields of screenwriting, camera, sound, acting ...

Ebeltoft Ebeltoft is an old port town on the central east coast of Denmark with a population of 7,204 (1 January 2022).Film Academy Baden-Württemberg The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: ''Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg'') was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film sc ...

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

. After directing some shorts and documentaries, he made her feature film debut in 2014 with '' The Council of Birds'', which premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in the International Critics' Week sidebar. For this film he was awarded best director at the 2015 Belgrade International Film Festival. His second feature ''

The Universal Theory ''The Universal Theory'' (german: Die Theorie von Allem, lit=The Theory of Everything) is a 2023 mystery thriller film directed by Timm Kröger, from a screenplay written by Kröger with Roderick Warich. The film was selected to compete for t ...

'' entered the main competition at the

80th Venice International Film Festival 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

. Also active as a cinematographer and film editor for other directors, in 2022 Kröger was awarded the

Preis der deutschen Filmkritik The Preis der deutschen Filmkritik is a prize given by the German Film Critics Association, awarded to the best German films of the past year. The Preis der deutschen Filmkritik is the only German film prize issued exclusively by film critics. The ...

for best cinematography for '' The Trouble with Being Born''.

Selected filmography

;Director and screenwriter * '' The Council of Birds'' (2014) * ''

'' (2023) ;Cinematographer * ' (2013) * '' The Trouble with Being Born'' (2020)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kroger, Timm 1985 births Living people German screenwriters German film directors German film editors German cinematographers people from Itzehoe