Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1957. In his teens he left high school and worked as a cooker in a boat.Then he studied painting and graphism in the Academy of arts in Hamburg where he also started experimenting with video and photography. Those experimental movies attracted the attention of some producers of the German TV.Hirschbiegel became popular thanks to his tv movies (especially dramas and thrillers). In 2001 he shot his first movie for cinema: Das Experiment that won several awards in m ...[Read Story]
