Uli Hanisch

Uli Hanisch was born in Nuremberg in 1967 Studying graphic arts in Düsseldorf he began collaborating in 1989 with Christoph Schlingensief on experimental films such as THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE He designed the movies of Germanys exceptional comedian Helge Schneider Working in several European art departments for films by Enki Bilal or Peter Greenaway he also designed German feature films with directors like Leander Haußmann Oliver Hirschbiegel and Sönke Wortmann Since 1996 he collaborated many times with Tom Tykwer He was awarded in 2007 the Bavarian Film Award the German Film Award and the Prix dExellence of the European Film Academy for best production design of Tykwers THE PERFUME The Story of a Murderer produced by Bernd Eichinger He worked on Tom Tykwers THE INTERNATIONAL produced by Chuck Roven for Columbia Pictures and other international productions in Europe like in Budapest 2008 for the medieval horror movie SEASON OF THE WITCH again produced by Chuck Roven directed by Dominic Sena In 2011 Hanisch designed three parts of this epic story on CLOUD ATLAS For this he received the German Film Award for Best Design He was nominated for the Art Directors Guild of Los Angeles Production Design Award He also collaborated on the Berlin part of the Netflix series SENSE 8 directed by the Wachowskies and Tom Tykwer In 2012 he went to Belgrade and Budapest again for the American arthouse project IN SECRET starring Jessica Lange and Elisabeth Olsen directed by Charlie Stratton and produced by Bill Horberg In 2016 he started to work for the German TV period series BABYLON BERLIN produced for SKY and ARD directed by Tom Tykwer Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries He designed the new permanent backlot street for STUDIO BABELSBERG the NEUE BERLINER STRASSE Since 2001 Hanisch has lectured at various film schools in Germany and Europe He has been a Professor of production design at the INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL IFS in Cologne since 2018 Uli Hanisch lives in Berlin Information above via their homepage