Nationality Germany Years active 1998–present | Name Claudia Garde Role Film director | |
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Occupation Film director, Screenwriter Website Official website of Claudia Garde (German) Movies Borowski - 03 - Stirb und werde, On Top of the Volcano, Borowski - 16 - Borowski und der vierte Mann Similar People Sascha Arango, Maren Eggert, Thomas Kugel, Axel Milberg, Kerstin Ramcke | ||
Claudia Garde & Martin May - BFFS Klappe auf! - 2.Okt 2015
Claudia Garde (born 1966 in Bremen) is a German film director and screenwriter. She has worked for the German TV-series Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, Flemming or the series Tatort.
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Claudia Garde, born in Bremen in 1966, after graduating from high school she first studied at acting schools in London and Paris. From 1992 to 1993 Garde worked in France as a theater actress at various theaters such as the Théâtre de l'épée de Bois, or the Compania del'Alma before she returned to Germany to study at the prestigious Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg the subjects of writing and directing. She acquired her diploma in directing in 1998 with the feature film Die Man Liebt ....
In the year 2000 she began her career as a director and screenwriter with several television films. and TV-series. So she worked alongside demanding series episodes such as Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin or the series Flemming. For the TV-series Flemming she was nominated together with the screenwriter Gregor Edelmann for the Grimme-Preis in 2010. Beyond that she has directed some very popular episodes of the German Tatort series, where she has worked with actors like Axel Milberg, Klaus J. Behrendt or Simone Thomalla. The Tatort episode Kindstod was awarded the Golden Gong and received two German TV Awards.
For her TV movie Die Frau am Ende der Straße with Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt in the leading roles, she received her first Grimme-Preis-nomination and won the VFF TV Movie Award in 2006.
In addition to her work as a director for film and television Claudia Garde has also worked as a freelance writer and lecturer. She lives and works in Berlin. With the British composer Colin Towns she connects a longer cooperation.