Hansjörg Weißbrich

Hansjörg Weissbrich started working with some of the most notable German directors in the mid-90ies. He won the German Film Award twice and received several other awards.

Weissbrich, born in 1967, studied Music and French as well as theatre, film and television in Duisburg and Bochum. In 1995, the young freelance editor met Hans-Christian Schmid. Since Schmid's feature film debut AFTER FIVE IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL, Weissbrich has edited most of the director's films, including 23, CRAZY, DISTANT LIGHTS, REQUIEM and STORM, which won the German Film Award for Best Editing. Weissbrich received another German Film Award for Georg Maas' TWO LIVES.

In 1999, Weissbrich started his longstanding cooperation with Florian Gallenberger, for whom he edited the Academy Award®-winning short film „Quiero Ser" and the feature films SHADOWS OF TIME and JOHN RABE. Other long-standing filmmaker companions are Marco Kreuzpaintner and Leander Haußmann. He edited Kreuzpaintner's TRADE, Leander Haußmann's HOTEL LUX and NVA and Marc Bauders's MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, which won the European Film Award for Best Documentary.

Weissbrich's many other awards include the German Camera Award, the German Film Critics' Award and the German Television Award. Hansjörg Weissbrich has been a member of German Film Academy and European Film Academy.

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