Thomas Heise

He was born in East Berlin, in the former German Democratic Republic, in 1955. He worked as a typographer and assistant director before graduating from the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film and TV Academy. He directed many documentaries, including Eisenzeit (1992), Barluschke (1997), Fatherland (2002), Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht. (2008) and Material (Bafici ’09).