Oskar Roehler

Oskar Roehler ( born January 21, 1959 in Starnberg ) is a German film director, journalist and author.

Roehler is the son of writer Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler of the writer. He grew up from the age of four with his grandparents and then again with his father in Darmstadt, where he also graduated from high school. He now lives in Berlin and works as a writer since the early 1980s. His works include screenplays for Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter.

Since the mid- 1990s Roehler was known primarily as a feature film director. His most successful film was The Untouchables with Hannelore Elsner in the lead role, in the Roehler describes the last years in his mother's life. The film was honored with numerous awards, including the German Film Award in Gold.

After 2003 and 2006, Roehler, in 2010 for Jud Suss - conscience his third invitation to the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival. The film dramatizes the emergence of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss (1940 ) and Tobias Moretti as the title character Ferdinand Marian, Justus von Dohnányi as a director Veit Harlan and Moritz Bleibtreu as Joseph Goebbels.

Under the title of origin, he published in 2011 autobiographical novel he (2013 ) also filmed under the title springs of life.

Private

Oskar Roehler is married to the fashion designer Alexandra Fischer- Roehler since August 2000. The couple lives in Berlin and Mallorca.

Movies

• 2011: Origin. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08844-5.