Matthias Glasner
Matthias Glasner was born in Hamburg in 1965. His mother works in a kindergarten and his father is a salesman, a man "who has sold anything and everthing from shoe laces to wine". He has one sister. Glasner went to a local school but prefered to pursue his own extra-curricular activities, namely spending as much time as possible at the local cinema soaking up the kind of films his parents and most adults would most likely have disapproved of i.e. the fun suff! Successfully dodging the need or requirement to go on to higher education ("I have no professional qualifications at all"), he also dodged military service, opting for its civilian alternative and working in a youth hostel instead. He also continued to go to the cinema. Proving that formal eductaion really can be overrated, Glasner made his first film, Requiem, in 1987. This was followed by Die Mediocren (1995), Sexcy Sadie (1996) and Fandango (2000). His other credits include the multi-award winning Der Freie Wille (Silver Bear at the Berlinale 2006, screened at Tribeca, Chicago and Trieste - where it won the main award 2007 and many other festivals) and This is Love (2009).
