Alexander Adolph

Born in Munich in 1965, Alexander Adolph has mainly found fame as a writer. He has penned a string of movies since the mid-1990s, although he has on occasion also stepped behind the camera to direct. A graduate of Munich's Ludwig-Maximillians University, where he studied to be a lawyer, Adolph bypassed a legal career in favor of writing, having already created a number of radio plays and other features while he was a student. He started out mainly writing TV movies and shows, including the 1998 mini-series "Der Konig von St Pauli," and continued to work mainly on the small screen for several years. Eventually, Adolph made the leap to movies with the 2009 drama "I've Never Been Happier," about an ex-con trying to put his past behind him, and 2010's "The Last Employee," the story of a lawyer haunted by the ghost of a woman whose company he liquidated. Adolph wrote and directed both movies. He sometimes writes under the pen name Nanouk C. Wilmer, and used that nom de plume to script the 2004 TV movie "Kleine Schwester." He is also a film professor at the University of Television and Film in Munich, the International Film School in Cologne and the Baden-Wurttemberg Film Academy.