Tom Tykwer
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1965
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Der Krieger + die Kaiserin
- Der Krieger + die Kaiserin
- Lola Rennt
- Drei
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Film & TV
Directing · Wuppertal, Germany
Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009).
Known for
- What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee2025
- Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen — Self2015
- How I Learned to Love the Numbers — Self2014
- Rosakinder — Self2012
- On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema2009
- Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte — Self2008
- Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben — Self2008
- Critic — Self2008
- Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood — Himself2006
- Who is Helene Schwarz? — Self2005
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Tom Tykwer (born May 23, 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director and music composer. Director of german film Run Lola Run Director of "Perfume The Story Of a Murderer" <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Tykwer">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,125x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,145x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,708x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,227x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1965-05-23 ) 23 May 1965 (age 61) , Wuppertal , West Germany
- Occupations
- Film director , screenwriter , film composer
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Spouse
- Marie Steinmann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 23 May 1965
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tom
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Wuppertal
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- German
- Notable work
- Cloud Atlas
- Official website
- www.tomtykwer.com
- Image
- MKr350743 Tom Tykwer (NRW-Empfang, Berlinale 2024).jpg
Article
Tom Tykwer ( German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).
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1965 birthsBest Director German Film Award winnersBLP articles lacking sources from August 2022Film people from North Rhine-WestphaliaGerman film directorsGerman film score composersGerman male film score composersLiving peopleMass media people from WuppertalMembers of the Academy of Arts, BerlinPostmodernist filmmakersSundance Film Festival award winners