Philipp Kadelbach

Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974, Frankfurt am Main) is a German film and television director. In discussing Kadelbach, actor Jürgen Schornagel stated "He's in the top five of the 116 directors I've worked with. He helps young people and experienced actors - and he lets us make mistakes". Career Philipp Kadelbach attended the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media and at the same time worked for the German local television channel WQED. From 1995 onwards he worked as the head of Avid Digital Editing at Neue Sentimental Film, a Frankfurt advertising agency, followed by the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. His directing debut was the short film Platonische Liebe (FBW-Prädikat: Wertvoll) in 1998/99, for which he was also screenwriter and film editor. Its music is by his younger brother, the film composer Michael Kadelbach and Herbert Grönemeyer. It won the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2000. It also appeared at the 1999 Telluride Film Festival (under the title Platonic Love), the 1999 Turin Film Festival, the Berlinale 2000 and on the Arte channel. Kadelbach's next short film was the 2001/02 2 Fläschchen.