About me
Recent works include Dark, Kleo, Counterpart, Royal Game, The Empress, Constellation and Control.
“I like it when the project requires a specific, differentiated type of photography and you are closely involved in the expected photographic design processes in collaboration with the client. The work is inspiring and at the same time the projects are challenging in terms of aesthetics and content, the film or series can be told in “stills” with photographic curiosity and full passionate commitment to the cause. After all, every film always has a different, new and unique language that you have to deal with in preparation and then quickly “see” on set. Photography that remains in the background, observing and “capturing”. My work is both a need and a happiness.”
Enclosed is a text by screenwriter Hanno Hackfort from the current photo book “still photography” – a selection of “set” photographs from recent years and, from the perspective of various trades such as producers, directors, actors and agents, many exciting essays on the subject of still photography in general.
THE IMAGE IN THE HEART – Hanno Hackfort. Screenwriter of the series “Kleo”, “4Blocks”, “Para-Wir sind King” and “You are wanted”, among others
“I have a picture in my head.”
I don’t know how many times this sentence has come up during our work together over the last ten years or so. It comes up all the time when we’re working on new projects. From the discovery phase at the very beginning of a project to the final versions of the books shortly before shooting begins.Pictures and photos are often the first things we pin up on the wall or whiteboard. Pictures are there even before the first written word. And new ones are constantly being added later on in the process.It is the images, the things that cannot yet be put into words, the feeling, the emotion, that draw us into the stories and shape them step by step. Emotions and not diagrams of act structures or plot points.How something looks, how it feels when you look at it – these are elements that have a direct impact on the creation and development of stories and characters. Why? Perhaps because images, whether on the computer, printed out on paper or even just in the mind, directly target the emotions and address the emotional world in a more complex way than a necessarily limited number of words can. Creativity is fueled in a completely different way.
“Words and pictures – they are like two different animals,” William Eggleston once said in an interview. And even if words are the only tool available to us as screenwriters, we would do well to never forget that we are creating for a visual medium, that the two “different animals” must always go hand in hand.
If you are working on a project solely as an author and have failed to secure a certain say in the further course of work on the project, such as working together with the director on the shooting version, participating in the rehearsals and in discussions with the actors, in the contact with the actors during shooting by watching samples and having the opportunity to make comments or to comment on the editing, so if you hand over your work, your baby, too early and too definitively and are then confronted with the finished product, you are often irritated. A kind of alienation from your own material sets in. The story is the same, the characters are the ones you have thought up, they act (in the best case) according to the plot steps you have planned for them and yet it is no longer your own story. It has moved away from the images you originally had in your heart. Or more precisely, from the emotions that these images generated in you and that have become a story for you in the course of the work process.It is a great stroke of luck when the images that you had in your head, that touched your soul, awaken in you again later when you watch the finished film or series. When the DNA of what you originally imagined in your own images is struck.The pure photographic image, detached from the action, the still photo, is an essence of this. Reduced to what was perhaps once there at the very beginning of the process as the original source, the pure image.
If a still photo manages to evoke this original feeling again, it is a damn valuable gift. It shows that the entire creative process, from the initial idea to the final evaluation of the film or series, was supported by a common understanding, a consistent vision. However, this is only possible if everyone involved in the process has the ability and sensitivity to empathize with this original vision. Into the original, central idea, into the image in the heart, which then becomes an image for the viewer.
Filmography
2026
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Über Menschen • Feature Film • Lucky Bird Pictures
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30 Bullets • Feature Film • Bild und Tonfabrik GmbH
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Zwei vernünftige Erwachsene, die sich mal nackt gesehen haben • TV series – all episodes • Turbine Studios
2025
- 14 Blocks Zero • TV Series – all episodes • Wiedemann & Berg GmbH • HBO Max
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Mädchen in Uniform • Feature Film – Nordpolaris • Tobis Film GmbH
- 3
Call my Agent Berlin • TV Series – all episodes • Friday Film • Disney+
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Polizei . • TV Movie • Kineo Film
2024
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Control • Feature Film • Robert Schwentke • Studio Babelsberg • Studio Canal
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Fall for me • TV Movie • Sherry Hormann • W&B Television GmbH • Netflix
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Allein unter Müttern • TV Movie • Till Endemann • Producers at Work Film
2023
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Kleo • TV Series • Zeitsprung • Netflix
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Murder Mindfully • TV Series • all episodes • Constantin Film GmbH • Netflix
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Zeit Verbrechen • TV Series • X-Filme • Paramount+
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Viktor bringt’s • TV Series • all episodes • Real Film Berlin GmbH • Amazon Prime
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Treasure • Feature Film • Julia von Heinz • Seven Elephants GmbH
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The Grimm Reality • TV series • W&B Television GmbH • Netflix
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Sie sagt.Ersagt. • TV Movie • Matti Geschonneck • Moovie GmbH
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Die Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation der Liebe • Feature Film • Lars Kraume • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH
2022
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A Sacrifice • Feature Film • Jordan Scott • Ridley Scott Prod. UK
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Constellation • TV-Series • all episodes • Turbine Studios [uk] • Apple TV+
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Pitch Perfect Berlin • TV-Series • all episodes • Peacock [us] • Universal Television [us]
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A Thin Line • TV-Series • all episodes • Weydemann Bros Serial Drama GmbH [de] • Paramount+
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FBI International • TV-Series • Wolf Entertainment (us) • CBS (us)
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15 Jahre • Feature Film • Chris Kraus • Four Minutes Filmproduktion GmbH
2021
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Kleo • TV -Series • all episodes • Zeitsprung Pictures GmbH • Netflix
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The Empress • Die Kaiserin • TV -Series • all episodes • Sommerhaus Serien GmbH • Netflix
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Der vermessene Mensch • Feature Film • Lars Kraume • Zero One Film GmbH
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Inventing Anna • TV-Series • all episodes • Shondaland Productions [us] • Netflix
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The Flight Attendant • TV-Series • Warner Bros. Television [us] • HBO (us)
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Industry • TV-Series • BBC [uk] • Bad Wolf [uk] • HBO (us)
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Der Palast • TV Movie • Uli Edel • Constantin Television GmbH
2020
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Kleo • TV -Series • all episodes • Zeitsprung Pictures GmbH • Netflix
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The Empress • Die Kaiserin • TV -Series • all episodes • Sommerhaus Serien GmbH • Netflix
2019
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Schachnovelle • Feature Film • Philipp Stölzl • Walker+Worm Film GmbH • Studio Canal
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Isi & Ossi • TV Movie • Oliver Kienle • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH • Netflix
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Mein Sohn • Feature Film • Lena Stahl • Akzente Film GmbH
2018
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Die Känguru-Chroniken • Feature Film • Dani Levy • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH
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Counterpart • TV Series • all episodes • Einundvierzigste Babelsberg / Starz (us)
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Dream factory • Feature Film • Martin Schreier • Studio Babelsberg
2017
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Das schweigende Klassenzimmer • Feature Film • Lars Kraume • Akzente Film
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Lara • Feature Film • Jan-Ole Gerster • Schiwago Film
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Der Junge muss an die frische Luft • Feature Film – Caroline Link • Ufa Fiction
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Dengler • fremde Wasser TV Movie • Rick Ostermann • Bavaria Fiction
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Acht Tage • TV Series • Neue Super GmbH, Sky
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You are Wanted • TV Series • Matthias Schweighöfer • Pantaleon Films, Amazon Prime
2016
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Dark • TV Series • all episodes • Baran Bo Odar • W&B GmbH • Netflix
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Dengler • Die schützende Hand • TV Movie • Lars Kraume • Bavaria Film GmbH
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Der König von Berlin • TV Movie • Lars Kraume •Olga Film
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Terror • nach Ferdinand von Schirach • TV Movie • Lars Kraume • MOOVIE GmbH
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Schuld • nach Ferdinand von Schirach • TV Movie • Hannu Salonen • MOOVIE GmbH
2015
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Mitten in Deutschland: NSU • TV Movie • Züli Aladag • Wiedemann & Berg
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The Have-Nots • Feature Film • Florian Hoffmeister • Una Film
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Feel • Feature Film • Markus O. Rosenmüller • Ziegler Film
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Schuld • nach Ferdinand von Schirach • TV Movie • Hannu Salonen- MOOVIE GmbH
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Das Dorf der Mörder • TV Movie • Nikolaus “Niki” Stein • Ziegler Film
2014
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Weissensee Season 3 • TV Series • all episodes • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
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Man without shadow • TV Movie • Carlo Rola • Network movie
2013
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Auf das Leben • Feature Film • Uwe Janson • CCC-Filmkunst
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Die Polizistin • TV Movie • Franziska Buch • Ziegler Film
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Polizeiruf 110 • TV Movie • Friedemann Fromm • Saxonia Media
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Mission housemen • TV Movie -Christof Klünker • CCC-Filmkunst
2012
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Westen • Feature Film • Christian Schwochow • Zero one Film
- 2
Nacht über Berlin • TV Movie • Friedemann Fromm • Ufa Film
2011
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Weissensee Season 2 • TV Series • all episodes • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
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Mutter muss weg • TV Movie • Edward Berger • Ziegler Film
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Komm schöner Tod • TV Movie • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
2010
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Wunderkinder • Feature Film • Marcus O. Rosenmüller • CCC – Filmkunst
- 2
Der Scheriff • TV Movie • Torsten Wacker • Askania Media
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Entführt • TV Movie • Nicolai Rohde • Factor Sechs
2009
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Method • Feature Film • Ulas Insac • mpool
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Weissensee Season 1 • all episodes • TV Serial • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
2008
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Jenseits der Mauer • TV Movie • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
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Tatort • TV Movie • Nils Wilbrandt • Ziegler Film
2007
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Die Wölfe • TV Movie • Friedemann Fromm • Ziegler Film
2006
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Tatort • TV Movie • Christine Hartmann • Ziegler Film
2001
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The Pianist • Feature Film • Roman Polanski • Studio Babelsberg
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Ma femme s´apelle Maurice • Feature Film • Jean Marie Poiree • Studio Babelsberg
2000
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Der Elefant in meinem Bett • Feature Film • Marc Schlichter • Pro Movie
Exhibitions
2025
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Members of SMPSP (Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers) • Group show • Burbank, CA
Photo Book release “ A single frame “ Vol II • 30 years of the society of motion picture still photographers • published by Insight editions
2023
- 1Stills – photography for movies • Gallery Geistesblüten Berlin • Solo show
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Photobook about still photography published by www.geistesblueten.com
2020
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Inszeniert! Deutsche Geschichte und Fotografien im Spielfilm • Haus der Geschichte, Leipzig • Film stills
2018
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Film stilles • Anima Mundi • Palazzo Ca´Zanardi, Venice Faces unshaped • Group show
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Film stills part two 2009 – 2015 • Fürst & Iven, Berlin • Solo show
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Inszeniert! Deutsche Geschichte und Fotografien im Spielfilm • Haus der Geschichte, Bonn • Film stills
2016
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Film stills 2001-2009 • Fürst & Iven, Berlin • Solo show
2013
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To be or not to be • Munich modern, Munich Street photography, New York • Group show
2012
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Lynch by inch, David Lynch and the art of interpretation • Gallery L40, Berlin Blindness • Group show
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Principles of composition • Munich modern, Munich Street photography • Group show
2011
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Unheimlich vertraut • C/O-Berlin New York Photography 9/11 • Group show
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Fleurs du mal • Munich modern, Munich • Group show
2010 – 2012
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Manhattan works on paper part two • Goethe institutes Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, New York, Los Angeles
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Street photography • Solo show • Goethe institute New York
2008
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Jewish life in New York • Israeli Consulat and Galerie Wilhelm-Kempf, Berlin, Tel Aviv • Solo show
2005
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Manhattan works on paper part one • Contemporary gallery for American photography, Mannheim
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Street photography • Group show Mannheim
2003
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Behind the curtain • Actors behind the scenes • Kuenstlerhaus Lenbachhaus, Munich • Solo show
2000
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Around the corner • White gallery, San Francisco • Street photography • Solo show
1996
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Twelve seconds • Depot Gallery, Frankfurt a.M. • Theater photography • Solo show
1994
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Etikette • Boeckler Galerie, Berlin • Street photography • Group show
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