Oskar Roehler

Oskar Roehler fascinates me because storytelling was practically in his bloodstream, raised as he was by two writers, Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. What I find most telling is his trajectory: a screenwriter from the mid-1980s who stepped behind the camera himself in the early 1990s. The move from giving words to other directors to directing your own vision suggests someone with an urgent need to say something on his own terms. German cinema has a particular astringent, uncompromising quality, and a writer-turned-director who also works as a journalist tends to bring real intellectual bite. I'd happily lose an evening to his filmography.

Name (English)

Oskar Roehler

Name (Japanese)

オスカー・レーラー

Reading

おすかー・れーらー

Born

January 21, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

Origin

Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / writer / journalist / director

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Upper Bavaria
• film director
• screenwriter
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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