Matti Geschonneck

Matti Geschonneck (born 8 May 1952 in Potsdam) is a German film director. Geschonneck is the son of German actor Erwin Geschonneck, who was one of the most famous actors in East Germany, and a half-brother of German forensic specialist and author Alexander Geschonneck. He grew up with his mother, actress Hannelore Wüst, and step-father Gerhard Scheumann, a well-known East German documentary film maker. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, but was pulled from his studies and lost his Communist party membership for his support of dissident Wolf Biermann after Biermann was stripped of his East German citizenship in 1976. Geschonneck used a work visa to move to West Germany in 1978. After serving as an assistant director to Thomas Langhoff, Eberhard Fechner and Diethard Klante, Geschonneck released his first feature film Moebius in 1992, followed by a series of episodes of the popular German television crime series Tatort. In 1995, he directed the TV movie Matulla und Busch, which was the last film his father starred in. After years of TV work, his second theatrical release Boxhagener Platz ()