Dirk Regel is a German filmmaker. He worked mainly for comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

s and for television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

.

Career

After high school Dirk Regel was trained as film editor and assistant director

Assistant director

The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

. After that he learned film production. He worked mainly for the German TV (e.g. Sat. 1 and ARD

ARD

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) and the Austrian TV (e.g. the film Wiener Blut for ORF eins).

He made films of various genres, such as crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

s (e.g. for the series Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110

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, Der Ermittler (The detective), Küstenwache (Coast Guard), and Pfarrer Braun (Priest Braun)). Dirk Regel also made romance film

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

s (e.g. Wiedersehen in Verona (Reunion in Verona)), hospital stories (e.g. for the series St. Angela) and family film

Family film

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s (e.g. Hilfe, meine Schwester kommt! (Help, my sister comes!)). He made a film adaptation of a tale of Grimm

Grimm's Fairy Tales

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 with Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (The Musicians of Bremen).

He also worked as script-writer with the film Die Unbeugsamen.

In 2002 he received the Deutscher Fernsehpreis

Deutscher Fernsehpreis

The Deutscher Fernsehpreis is a German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created as a equivalent to the Emmy Awards though it is not organized by an academy and is awarded annually in September or October...

(best series) for Edel & Starck (Sat.1

Sat.1

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, Directors: Dirk Regel, Ulrich Zrenner, Dennis Satin

Dennis Satin

Dennis Satin is a German film director and screenwriter. He became internationally well-known for the movie Dangerous Dowry , as director and screenwriter; starring: Katja Riemann and Hannes Jaennicke.As director and also as screenwriter he worked for the successfully television-series Wilsberg,...

, Jakob Schäuffelen

Jakob Schäuffelen

Jakob Schäuffelen is a German film director and screenwriter.- Career :After studying at the Filmacademy Vienna and the Hamburg Media School he worked as an Assistant Director with several directors including Oliver Hirschbiegel and Jörg Grünler. In 1997 he made his directorial debut with an...

, Matthias Kopp).

Filmography

• Im Namen des Gesetzes (TV series), episode Franziskas Geheimnis (1998)
• St. Angela (TV series), episode Glückskinder (1998)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Tödliche Hochzeit (2000)
• Nesthocker – Familie zu verschenken (TV series), episode Reif für die Insel (2000)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Hundstage (2000)
• Die Motorrad-Cops: Hart am Limit (TV series), episode Regenzeit (2000)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Das letzte Ufer (2000)
• Nesthocker - Familie zu verschenken (TV series), episode Eine für alle (2000)
• Die Motorrad-Cops: Hart am Limit (TV series), episode Ein schlechter Tag (2000)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Piraten auf der Ostsee (2000)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Dreieck (2001)
• Küstenwache (TV series), episode Zwischen den Fronten (2001)
• Der Ermittler (TV series), episode Alle für einen (2001)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Der Mann (2002)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Hokus, Pokus, Exitus (2002)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Der Mantel des Schweigens (2002)
• Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari (TV series), episode Bittere Schokolade (2003)
• Lottoschein ins Glück (2003)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Mord ist sein Hobby (2003)
• Mama macht's möglich, (2003)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Muffel und Männer (2003)
• Edel & Starck (TV series), episode Eine fast perfekte Ehe (2003)
• Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari (TV series), episode Ein Toter kehrt zurück (2004)
• Pfarrer Braun (TV series), episode Der Fluch der Pröpstin (2004)
• Pfarrer Braun (TV series), episode Ein verhexter Fall (2004)
• Der Bestseller (TV series), episode Wiener Blut (2004)
• Pfarrer Braun (TV series), episode Adel vernichtet (2005)
• Pfarrer Braun (TV series), episode Bruder Mord (2005)
• Eine Chance für die Liebe (2006)
• Die Unbeugsamen (Direction and script) (2006)
• Wiedersehen in Verona (2007)
• Die Gipfelstürmerin (2007)
• Polizeiruf 110 (TV series), episode Tod in der Bank (2007)
• Zwillingsküsse schmecken besser (2008)
• Hilfe, meine Schwester kommt! (2008)
• Bleib bei mir (2009)
• Mein Nachbar, sein Dackel & ich (2009)
• So ein Schlamassel (2009)
• Acht auf einen Streich (TV series), episode Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (2009)
• Inga Lindström (TV series), episode Millionäre küsst man nicht (2010)