Merle Grimme

Director

Awards - Selection

2025 |
New Stars Award | best debut film / director (Deutscher Filmball) for "Clashing Differences"
2024 |
New Faces Award | nom. best debut film for "Clashing Differences"
2024 |
Juliane Bartel Medienpreis | nom. fiktion & entertainment for "Clashing Differences"
2023 |
Jupiter Award | nom. best feature film for television for "Clashing Differences"
2023 |
First Steps Award | big audience award for "Clashing Differences"
2023 |
German Cinema New Talent Award – Film Festival Munich | best screenplay for "Clashing Differences"
2023 |
Afrika Film Festival Köln | Audience Award – best feature film for "Clashing Differences"
2023 |
Queer Film Festival Weiterstadt | Don-Quijote Award – Best Feature Film for "Clashing Differences"
2017 |
Zeit Legacy Study Film Competition | Jury-award-winner for "Der deutsche Kinderwunsch (EN The German Desire For Having Children)"
2018 |
DOK.fest München | nom. Young Filmmakers Award for "Regretting Motherhood"
2018 |
Int. Fünf Seen Filmfestival | nom. Das Goldene Glühwürmchen for "Regretting Motherhood"

Film / TV - Selection

2027 |
Don't worry - be happy. I'm gone | feature film | Director: Merle Grimme | writer; in development
2026 |
untitled ZDF series | TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | Studio Zentral | ZDF
2026 |
untitled UFA series | TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | UFA | writer; in development
2026 |
untitled Gaumont series | TV series | Gaumont | creator; in development
2025 |
Doppelhaushälfte - Staffel 4 | TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | Iconoclast Films | ZDF | 3 episodes
2023 |
Clashing Differences | feature film and TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | a little. filmproduction, sperl film + fernsehproduktion, HFF München, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Arte | Arte, ZDF | writer / director
2017 |
Regretting Motherhood | short documentary | Director: Merle Grimme | DREIFILM, HFF München | writer / director
2015 |
Mal Zeit (EN: Taking Time) | short documentary film | Director: Merle Grimme | HFF München
2013 |
Neugier | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer / director
2013 |
Warten auf X - Experiment. Kunstprojekt. Dokumentation | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer / director, editor; Zeitzeug Festival
2011 |
Hortensien Hotel | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer / director

Theatre - Selection

Audio - Selection

Languages: German, English

Residence: Berlin

Training: Diploma - University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich), B.A. of Arts from the University of Hildesheim

 

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