Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Director

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Net Worth


Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a member of Director

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Who is it? Director, Writer, Producer
Birth Day May 02, 1973
Birth Place  Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Germany
Age 50 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Gemini
Occupation Film director
Years active 1996–present
Spouse(s) Christiane Asschenfeldt
Children 3

💰 Net worth: $1.3 Million (2024)

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, a highly acclaimed director, writer, and producer in Germany, possesses a remarkable net worth estimated to be $1.3 million in the year 2024. Renowned for his exceptional talent, Donnersmarck has solidified his name in the industry, creating influential films that have won numerous prestigious awards. His contributions to the cinematic world have not only earned him critical acclaim but have also secured his financial success, further establishing him as a prominent figure in the German entertainment industry.

Biography/Timeline

1973

Donnersmarck was born in 1973 in Cologne, West Germany, into the aristocratic Roman Catholic Henckel von Donnersmarck family, and grew up in New York City, Brussels, Frankfurt, and West Berlin. He is fluent in English, German, French, Russian, and Italian. After graduating at the top of his class from the classical high school Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, he studied Russian literature in Leningrad for two years and passed the Soviet State Exam for Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford, and a diploma in Film Directing from the University of Television and Film of Munich.

1977

In 1977, while living as a child in New York, he saw his first movie at the Museum of Modern Art. He expected to see Doctor Dolittle but was "exposed instead to" the German melodrama Varieté. "He cites this experience as the start of his interest in film."

1996

In 1996, he won a directing internship with Richard Attenborough on In Love and War, and then went to study at the Fiction Directing Class of the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (University of Television and Film Munich), Germany, alma mater of Directors as diverse as Wim Wenders and Roland Emmerich. His first short film, Dobermann (which he wrote, produced, directed and edited), broke the school record for the number of awards won by a student production. It became an international festival sensation, and Donnersmarck travelled the festival circuit for over a year.

2007

In 2007, Donnersmarck was one of 115 new members to be invited to join AMPAS.

2010

In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, Director Howard Davies named Donnersmarck as the Artist he most admired.

2011

In 2011, Donnersmark was honoured by the University of Oxford, his alma mater, as one of its 100 most distinguished members from 10 centuries. Other honourees included Duns Scotus, william of Ockham, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Saint Thomas More, John Locke, Christopher Wren, Adam Smith, Lawrence of Arabia, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien and living university alumni Rupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking. For the cover of the 2011 Prospectus, Oxford University named 100 streets in Oxford's historical centre after these graduates. Upper Oxpens Road was renamed in the prospectus for Florian Henckel von Donnersmark.

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