Philipp Kässbohrer

Philip Georg Käßbohrer , born 30 October 1983, is a German film producer and director. He is the founder of the German film production company and known for creating the shows Neo Magazin and How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast).

Early life and education

Philip Georg Käßbohrer was born in Biberach an der Riß on 30 October 1983. After graduating from the gymnasium Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach in 2004, he began a three-year audio-visual media designer apprenticeship with German public broadcasting organisation Südwestrundfunk. From 2007 until 2014, Käßbohrer studied Film and Television at Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Career

In 2006, Käßbohrer began directing and working on screenplays for television shows, such as his feature film Das Problem des Schnellstfluges. Later, Käßbohrer directed music videos for Get Well Soon and Le Corps Mince de Françoise. In 2012, he wrote and directed the Arte film Armadingen.

Following Armadingen, Käßbohrer and his classmate Matthias Murmann began working on a concept for a late-night talk show featuring Jan Böhmermann and Charlotte Roche. The show, broadcast on ZDFkultur, was met with generally favourable reviews, and received a nomination for the 2012 Grimme-Preis. Eventually, Käßbohrer and Murmann were awarded the 2012 Deutscher Fernsehpreis's Förderpreis, and founded the film production company bildundtonfabrik.

From 2013 until 2019, Käßbohrer was the executive producer of bildundtonfabrik's late-night talk show Neo Magazin, hosted by Jan Böhmermann. The show aired on ZDFneo from 2013 until 2015, and has aired on ZDF since 2015.

From 2014 until 2017, Philipp Käßbohrer was the executive producer of the WDR comedy show Die unwahrscheinlichsten Ereignisse im Leben von ..., and the infotainment show Mr. Dicks - Das erste wirklich subjektive Gesellschaftsmagazin that aired on 1Live and EinsFestival. Throughout the mid-2010s, Käßbohrer directed music videos such as Get Well Soon - It's Love and Maeckes - Gettin' Jiggy With it.

Since 2017, Käßbohrer has been producing the comedy show Kroymann, aired on ARD. The show is hosted by Maren Kroymann, who satirically discusses social topics and problems.

Starting in 2018, Käßbohrer and several other screenwriters began working on the screenplay for the first six episodes of the Netflix show How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). Käßbohrer and Murmann have been the show's executive producers. The first season aired in 2019; season two and three followed in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

Also in 2018, Käßbohrer co-created WDR's online platform docupy, which includes documentary films on sociopolitical topics, directed by him.

In March 2020, during the first German COVID-19-lockdown, Käßbohrer created and produced the 15-episode comedy show Drinnen – im Internet sind alle gleich that aired on ZDFmediathek and ZDFneo. It featured Lavinia Wilson, Jana Pallaske, Barnaby Metschurat, and Victoria Trauttmansdorff. The show was not recorded in a film studio, instead, the actors recorded themselves at home using bildundtonfabrik equipment that was sent to them by mail.

Since 2020, Käßbohrer has been the executive producer of Die Carolin Kebekus Show. In 2021, Käßbohrer co-produced the documentary film Shiny Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord about Maximilian Schmidt. Schmidt inspired Käßbohrer to write his How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). Käßbohrer and Murmann will be the executive producers of Netflix's King of Stonks that is set to air in 2022.

Filmography 2008: Gemeinsam Allein (director, screenplay) 2009: Der Tag, an dem Herrn Müller einfach nichts einfallen wollte (director) 2010: Armadingen (director, screenplay) 2016 - 2017: Schulz & Böhmermann (director, producer) 2017 - 2018: Kroymann (director, producer) 2019: How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (producer, screenplay, creator) 2020: Drinnen - Im Internet sind alle gleich (online series) (creator) 2021: Shiny Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (producer) 2021: King of Stonks (creator, producer, screenplay)