Oskar Roehler is a German film director screenwriter and journalist He grew up with his father in Berlin From the beginning of the 1980s on Roehler worked as a writer and published Abschnappuniversum a collection of stories in 1984 He wrote screenplays for Christoph Schlingensief Terror 2000 1992 and for Niklaus Schilling Deutschfieber 1992 In 1995 Roehler made his debut as a director with the low budget production Gentleman