Thomas Stiller

Thomas Stiller is a German director and screenwriter

Ausbildung

Schauspiel- und Regieausbilding | Herbert Berghoff Studio, New York

Awards

2012 | Publikumspreis des Deutschen Fernsehkrimis |Tatort: Der traurige König

2010 | Jupiter | Zwölf Winter

2007 | Adolf-Grimme-Preis | Unter dem Eis

In 2000 Stiller was nominated for the renowned Adolf Grimme Price regarding his psycho-thriller  Stille Nacht – Heilige Nacht, that had premiered the preceding year. Additionally, the production was presented at the film festival in munich the same year. The screen play was also the model for an audioplay produced by the SWR.

The same year Stiller directed The Great Grandson of the Man Who Drank a Cow, a musical film about Japanese jazz musician and trumpet player Toshinori Kondō.

Since 2003 he has also been directing movie trailers for the Oldenburg international film festival. Apart from multiple made-for-TV-movies like Der gestohlene Mond (2002) starring Birol Ünel and Dietmar Bär, movie productions such as Der Junge ohne Eigenschaften (2006) starring Marek Harloff and Lisa Martinek, Stiller was also responsible for multiple episodes of TV-shows like Tatort, Unschuldig, Peter Strohm and Wolffs Revier, as director and writer. One of his career highlights was his screenplay Unter dem Eis, a family-psychodrama that won the Adolf-Grimme-Price category “Fiction” in 2007. In 2008 Stiller directed Zwölf Winter, a made-for-TV-movie, that received Adolf-Grimme-Price and Deutscher Fernsehkrimipreis nominations  and won the Jupiter award.