Max Färberböck (born 22 September 1950) is a German film director and writer. He was born in

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. He began his career at theaters in

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and in

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. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in

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and worked for

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and as an assistant for

Peter Zadek Peter Zadek (; 19 May 1926 – 30 July 2009) was a German director of theatre, opera and film, a translator and a screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. Biography Peter Zadek was born on 19 May ...

at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in

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. After producing several plays at theaters in Hamburg,

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and

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, he began to write and direct episodes for the TV series ''

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''. Later Färberböck produced several TV films, before making his first feature film, ''

Aimée & Jaguar ''Aimée & Jaguar'' is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck and based on Erica Fischer's book chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during tha ...

'' (1998). It was nominated for the

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for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was also nominated for the

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49th Berlin International Film Festival The 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1999. The festival opened with '' Aimée & Jaguar'' by Max Färberböck. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' The Thin Red Line'' directed by Terrence Malick. Th ...

. He directed '' A Woman in Berlin'' (2008), based on the memoir by the same name. A new edition had been published in Germany in 2003, two years after the author's death. This controversial work dealt with the experiences of women in Berlin in the last weeks of the

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and occupation by Soviet Union troops at the end of World War II. The author is reputed to be the late journalist, Marta Hillers, who died in 2001.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1990, TV series, 3 episodes) * ''Schlafende Hunde'' (1992, TV film) * ''Einer zahlt immer'' (1993, TV film) * ''

Bella Block ''Bella Block'' is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger as inspector Bella Block. The show was first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF and last aired in 2018, having run for 38 seasons. See also * List of German t ...

: Die Kommissarin'' (1994, TV series episode) * ''

: Liebestod'' (1995, TV series episode) * '' Aimée und Jaguar'' (1999) * ''Jenseits'' (2002, TV film) * ''

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'' (2003) * '' A Woman in Berlin'' (2008) * ''

: Vorsehung'' (2009, TV series episode) * ''

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 ...

: Am Ende des Flurs'' (2014, TV series episode) * ''

: Der Himmel ist ein Platz auf Erden'' (2015, TV series episode) * ''

: Mia san jetz da wo's weh tut'' (2016, TV series episode) * ''

: Ich töte niemand'' (2018, TV series episode) * ''

: Die Nacht gehört dir'' (2020, TV series episode)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farberbock, Max 1950 births Living people Mass media people from Bavaria