Alexander Tuschinski

Alexander Konstantin Ritter von Tuschinski^[1] (born October 28, 1988^[2]) is a German film director, film producer, writer, actor and musician.

Alexander Tuschinski
2014 on the set of Timeless
Occupation(s)	Film director, film producer, writer, actor
Years active	2008–present

Life and works

Early life and education

Tuschinski's paternal family originates from Czernowitz, carrying the title Ritter von since the Austro-Hungarian period. During World War II, they lost their property and settled in Sighișoara, Romania, where both of Tuschinski's parents were born.^[3] They emigrated to West Germany in 1983. Alexander Tuschinski was born in Stuttgart on October 28, 1988; he attended Dillmann-Gymnasium in Stuttgart until 2008, and then studied audiovisual media at Hochschule der Medien,^[4] graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in 2011.^{[citation needed]} He then studied history and literature at the University of Stuttgart.^[5][6]

Work

In 2009, Tuschinski produced and directed the feature film Menschenliebe.^[7][8] The film and short films he directed around the same period were screened at international film festivals and received awards.^{[4][9][10][11]} In 2010, Tuschinski began filming his feature film Break-Up.^[4][5] It later received awards at film festivals in the United States.^[12][13]

Helmut Berger (right) and Tuschinski on the set of Timeless (2015)

In 2014-15, Tuschinski produced, wrote, directed and edited the feature film Timeless.^[12]

Tuschinski assisted Hugo Niebeling in restoring and re-editing B7, Niebeling's director's cut of his 1972 film showing the Berlin Philharmonic performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.^[14] Niebeling and Tuschinski together edited Niebeling's short film Apotheosis of Dance from the last movement of the symphony.^[15]

Tuschinski produced and directed several short films in 2017–2019, including a documentary film Caligari in the Desert about Roger Ball and the film The Songwriter of Botnang portraying Gerda Herrmann, a poet and composer born in 1931, which were screened at several international festivals.^[16][17][18]

In 2021, Tuschinski produced, filmed, directed and edited the feature-length documentary Statue of Liberty about Tomas Kurth and his quest to build a "Statue of Liberty of Stuttgart" during lockdown.^[19] Statue of Liberty screened together with Fetzenleben and the second instalment of Die Liedermacherin von Botnang at Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in December 2022.^[20]