‏Florian Baxmeyer‏

Florian Baxmeyer, born in 1974 in Essen (West Germany), studied Sociology at the University of Cologne (West Germany), and has worked as an assistant director before his career starts. Since 2000, he has been attending the Film Studies Program at the University of Hamburg (North Germany). His films include the shorts "Pas de deux" (2000), "Der Verkäufer" (2000), "Benny X" (2001), "Joker-Zu Fuss" (2001), and "Die Rote Jacke" (2002), which won the Student Academy Award in 2003 and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Film - Live Action 2004. At present he works on the conversion of the most successful radio play series of Germany "Die drei Fragezeichen und die Geisterinsel" (German title) which will be released in 2006.