Biography
Fatih Akin was born in Hamburg on 25 August 1973 to Turkish immigrants, grew up in Altona and, while still at school, acted in a fringe theatre group at the Thalia Theater. From 1994 to 2000 he studied visual communication at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts; his first feature film, Kurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock), was released in 1998. Gegen die Wand (Head-On) won him the Golden Bear, the German Film Award and the European Film Award in 2004, and with Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven, 2007) and The Cut (2014) he completed his trilogy “Love, Death and the Devil”. Later films include the Herrndorf adaptation Tschick (2016), Rheingold (2022) and Amrum (2025). Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), prompted by the NSU attacks, screened in competition at Cannes in 2017 and won the 2018 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
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