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Markus Dietrich is a German director and screenwriter. He studied Media Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He has been working as a freelance director and writer for cinema and television since 2003. Markus is a member of the German Screenwriters’ Association (DDV) and has taught directing at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He was a board member and spokesperson of the German Children’s Film Association for several years. Markus has directed numerous successful feature films and TV productions, including Invisible Sue, Sputnik, Willi and the Wonder Toad, The Mucklas and How They Came to Pettersson and Findus, and Ponyheart. He also directed over 30 episodes of the children’s series Schloss Einstein. His work has been screened internationally and received multiple awards and nominations at festivals worldwide. Born in Strausberg in 1979, Markus lives in Weimar with his wife and two children.

Selected Work (as Director / Writer)

• 2025 ZWEITER STERN VON RECHTS, feature film, ostlicht filmproduktion, nominated for the German Script Award 2026, (director / co-writer)
  
• 2025–2026 PONYHEART 1–3, family feature film series, Leitwolf Filmproduktion (co-writer)
  
• 2020–2023 LEVEL 4, feature film, Rat Pack Filmproduktion (co-writer)
  
• 2023 PONYHEART – WILD AND FREE, feature film, Riva Filmproduktion (director / co-writer)
  
• 2022 The Mucklas and how they came to Petersson and Findus, Tradewind Pictures, (co-director)
  
• 2022 DER GEIST IM GLAS, TV-feature film, BREMEDIA, MDR, KiKA, HR (director)
  
• 2021 WILLI AND THE WONDER TOAD, feature film, Filmtank, (director, co-writer)
  
• 2012-2019 SCHLOSS EINSTEIN, TV series, Saxonia, MDR, (director for several episodes)
  
• 2018 INVISIBLE SUE, feature film, ostlicht filmproduktion (director / writer)
  
• 2012 SPUTNIK, feature film, ostlicht filmproduktion – nominated for the German Film Award as Best Film for Children (director / writer)

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