Florian Gärtner (born 23 April 1968 in

Korbach Korbach (), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located on the German Timber-Frame Ro ...

) is a German film director and author.

Life and career

Florian Gärtner grew up in Marburg and London. He studied English literature and media studies at Philipps University, Marburg and the Free University, Berlin. At age 15, Gärtner made his first home movie. He continued making shorts and eventually award-winning feature-length Super-8-films throughout his school and university years. Gärtner's film ''Dragonland'' premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 1999, where it won the Interfilmpreis. The film also screened at the

Berlin Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...

1999. Florian Gärtner lives in Berlin.

Filmography

* 1993: ''Extraterrestrial'' (director, screenplay) * 1996: ''No One But Me'' (director, screenplay) * 1999: ''Dragonland'' (director, screenplay) * 2003: ' (director, screenplay) * 2003: ''Oh Mother'' (Director, screenplay) * 2005: ''Sex Up 2'' (director, screenplay) * 2007: ''Second Life'' (director, screenplay) * 2008: ' (director) * 2008: ''Instructor Schmidt'' (screenplay) * 2012: ' (director) * 2012: ''A Special Band'' (director) * 2012: ' (director, screenplay) * 2013: ''Separation the Italian Way'' (director) * 2015: ''

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

: Borowski and the Kids from Gaarden'' (director) * 2017: ''Brown Bread in Thailand'' (director, screenplay) * 2018: ''Lotta and the Serious Side of Life'' (director) * 2019: ''A Summer on Mallorca'' (director) * 2019: ''Real Guys'' (directo

* 2020: ''Clueless in Ireland'' (director)

References

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