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Andre Erkau
Erkau in 2016
Born	( 1968-08-17 ) 17 August 1968 (age 55) Dortmund , West Germany
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	2001?present

Andre Erkau (born 1968) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life and work [ edit ]

Born in Dortmund , Erkau grew up in Bremen . After he completed his actor's training, he worked for theatre and TV. In 2001, he began to study film direction at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . He finished his study in 2005 with his diploma-movie 37 ohne Zwiebeln . This short film won more than twenty film awards and was in 2006 one of Germany's most successful short films. His first cine film, Come In and Burn Out , also received awards.

Selected filmography [ edit ]

• 1993: Nicht von schlechten Eltern (German TV series, actor)
• 2001: fabrixx (German TV series, actor)
• 2003: Verkauftes Land (German TV movie, actor)
• 2006: 37 ohne Zwiebeln (direction, screenplay, producer)
• 2008: Come In and Burn Out  [ de ] ( Selbstgesprache ), (direction, screenplay) ^[1]
• 2011: Alive and Ticking (actor)
• 2011: No More Mr. Ice Guy  [ de ] (direction, screenplay)
• 2012: Das Leben ist nichts fur Feiglinge (direction) ^{[2] [3]}
• 2014: Tatort - Wahre Liebe (German TV series, direction)
• 2015: Winnetous Sohn (direction)
• 2015: Tatort - Schwanensee (German TV series, direction, screenplay)

Awards and nominations [ edit ]

• 37 ohne Zwiebeln (2006)

- 2006: Winner of the Audience Award in the category Hanse Short at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival

- 2006: Winner of the Audience Award and Best short Film award at the Filmfestival Max Ophuls Preis in Saarbrucken

- 2006: Winner of the ProSieben Young Directors Award in the category Best Director at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools

- 2006: Winner of the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award in the category Best Screenplay at the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award

• Come In and Burn Out (2008)

- 2008: Winner of the Max Ophuls Award at the Filmfestival Max Ophuls Preis in Saarbrucken

• Das Leben ist nichts fur Feiglinge (2012)

- 2012: Nominated for the Best German Language Feature Film at Zurich Film Festival

- 2014: Nominated for the Best German Film at the Jupiter Awards

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Andre Erkau at IMDb