Dirk Kummer

Dirk Kummer (born 29 September 1966 in Hennigsdorf) is a German actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing movies Sugar Sand, Wohin mit den Witwen (1999) and Rosenzweig's Freedom (1998).

Early life Kummer first grew up in Falkensee and moved to East Berlin in 1973. He had his first acting role in 1979 aged 13, in the two-parter TV movie Meines Vaters Straßenbahn on the Deutscher Fernsehfunk channel. After he had graduated from school in 1985, Kummer performed three years of military service with the border troops.

In 1992, Kummer went to Switzerland and took acting classes there for one year at the University of Music and Performing Arts Bern (now part of University of the Arts Bern). From 1993 to 2002, he worked only sporadically as an actor and mainly as a directing assistant among others with Konrad Sabrautzky, (Mein Leben & Ich), Kaspar Heidelbach , Susanne Schneider (The Day Will Come), Anna Justice (Remembrance (2011)) and Gunther Scholz. In 2002, he received an author scholarship from the Drehbuchwerkstatt Nürnberg and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Since about 2003, Dirk Kummer works almost exclusively as a director and scriptwriter. After stops in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Berlin, he now resides again in Brandenburg.

He has also directed plays at theatres including "Carl's Work - Part 1" (in 2014) and "The Abolition of the Night" (in 2015) at Schauspiel Köln. the 3sat Audience Award at the 2010 Baden-Baden TV Film Festival and the Grimme Prize in 2018.

Filmography Actor Year Title Role Notes 1979 My Father's Streetcar (TV film, also known as Meines Vaters Straßenbahn) 1986 Rund um die Uhr 'Jugendlicher im Fuhrwerk' or teenager in wagon (TV series, 1 episode) 1988 Die andere Liebe as himself (short documentary) 1989 Coming Out 'Matthias' 1992 The Mistake (or Die Verfehlung) Holger Bosch 1995 Kanzlei Bürger Edgar Wunsch (TV series, 1 episode) 1998 100 Years of Brecht (or 'Hundert Jahre Brecht') actor Documentary Sergio Pavese (TV series, 1 episode "Letzter Bluff") 1999 Die Hochzeitskuh Conductor (TV movie)

Director Year Title Notes 1999 Wohin mit den Witwen (Short, also written by Kummer) 2003 Geschlecht: weiblich (TV film) 2005 Charlotte und ihre Männer (TV film), won the Audience Award in 2005 2009 Keiner geht verloren (TV film) winner of 54th Grimme Prize 2018