Robert Thalheim

Robert Thalheim born July 2nd 1974 in Berlin is a German stage and film director and screenwriter Thalheim was an assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble in 199798 and then studied Modern German Literature History and Politics at the Free University of Berlin until the year 2000 in which period he edited the first issues of the culture magazine Plotky In 2000 he began to study film directing at the Filmhochschule PotsdamBabelsberg His teacher there was Rosa von Praunheim who monitored his work on his first films Robert Thalheim returned to the theatre in 2003 staging his own play Wild Boys at the Maxim Gorki Theater 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 TouristsAm Ende kommen Touristen shot on location at Auschwitz This documentary film produced by HansChristian Schmid and Britta Knöller was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and was released in Germany in August 2007 wikipedia