Edgar Reitz
German director, producer and author. Born in 1932 in Morbach/Hunsrück. Studied German literature, journalism and dramaturgy in Munich. In the mid-1950s worked in the literary field, was involved with the musical, literary, artistic and film avant-garde. He published poetry, was editor of a literary magazine and founded a studio theater at the University of Munich. Since 1957 he has worked as a cameraman and director of industrial and documentary films. Member of the “Oberhausener Gruppe,” which gave birth to the German art film in 1962. He founded the “Institute For Film Design” at the Ulm School of Design. There, at the first film school in the Federal Republic of Germany, Reitz taught directing and camera for eight years. His first feature film, Mahlzeiten (screenplay, direction, production), which won an award at the 1967 Venice Film Festival, belongs to those debut films that later carried the label
“Junger Deutscher Film.” His most important films include Cardillac, Die reise nach Wien, Der schneider von ulm, Stunde Null . His world-famous Heimat trilogy, which consists of thirty-one individual films linked into a hundred-year epic and, at over fifty-six hours in length, is one of the most extensive narrative works in film history. After three years of pre-production and research, in 2012 Edgar Reitz began principal photography on his “successor” to Heimat, the German-French co-production Home From Home, in which he tells the story of a 19th-century family during during the period of mass emigration from Germany to Brazil.
Edgar Reitz is a member of several academies such as the German Academy of Arts in Berlin, the European Film Academy, the German Academy of Performing Arts, and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he heads the Department of Film and Media Art. Reitz has received numerous international awards and honors, including the Golden Lion of Venice, the Luchino Visconti Prize, the Federico Fellini Prize, in 2006 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and “Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” de la Republique Francaise.
Edgar Reitz lives in Munich with his wife, singer and actress Salome Kammer.

Jörg Adolph
German director and author. Born August 1, 1967, in Herford, grew up in Korbach. 1988-1994 studied modern German literature and media studies, art history and ethnology in Marburg. Studied filmmaking at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Scientific-artistic assistant at HFF Munich, teaching assignments and supervision of student films. Married to editor Anja Pohl, he lives in Ebenhausen near Munich and works as a documentary filmmaker. His films have received numerous awards, including the German Television Award and the German Documentary Film Award.