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Top 100 Directors in Germany

The most publicly visible directors in Germany.

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The most famous directors in Germany right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Wim Wenders	Germany	Directors	65.5	27.6
#2	—	Leni Riefenstahl	Germany	Directors	65.3	0.6
#3	—	Margarethe von Trotta	Germany	Directors	62.6	10.0
#4	—	Werner Herzog	Germany	Directors	61.7	0.0
#5	—	Wolfgang Petersen	Germany	Directors	61.5	5.0
#6	—	Curd Jürgens	Germany	Directors	60.2	6.7
#7	—	Fritz Lang	Germany	Directors	60.2	0.0
#8	—	Uwe Boll	Germany	Directors	59.6	2.8
#9	—	Tom Tykwer	Germany	Directors	59.5	16.8
#10	—	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany	Directors	59.3	17.2
#11	—	F. W. Murnau	Germany	Directors	59.1	0.2
#12	—	Karoline Herfurth	Germany	Directors	59.0	3.9
#13	—	Michael Herbig	Germany	Directors	58.5	9.0
#14	—	Heinz Rühmann	Germany	Directors	58.0	3.5
#15	—	Christian Petzold	Germany	Directors	56.7	6.9
#16	—	Volker Schlöndorff	Germany	Directors	56.5	1.3
#17	—	KE Klaus Emmerich	Germany	Directors	56.3	10.0
#18	—	Fatih Akin	Germany	Directors	56.0	0.0
#19	—	William Dieterle	Germany	Directors	55.8	19.6
#20	—	Gustaf Gründgens	Germany	Directors	55.5	0.0
#21	3	André Hennicke	Germany	Directors	55.4	8.7
#22	1	Ernst Lubitsch	Germany	Directors	55.4	0.0
#23	1	Tim Kruger	Germany	Directors	55.3	7.3
#24	1	Alexander Kluge	Germany	Directors	55.3	0.0
#25	new	Theo Lingen	Germany	Directors	55.3	2.8
#26	1	Valeska Grisebach	Germany	Directors	55.2	10.0
#27	1	Robert Siodmak	Germany	Directors	54.9	2.0
#28	1	Hito Steyerl	Germany	Directors	54.9	10.0
#29	1	Douglas Sirk	Germany	Directors	54.8	0.0
#30	1	Thea von Harbou	Germany	Directors	54.8	0.0
#31	1	Sönke Wortmann	Germany	Directors	54.6	19.4
#32	1	Percy Adlon	Germany	Directors	54.5	1.0
#33	1	Konrad Wolf	Germany	Directors	54.5	4.9
#34	1	Christoph Schlingensief	Germany	Directors	54.4	0.0
#35	1	Helmut Dietl	Germany	Directors	54.4	0.0
#36	1	Maria Schrader	Germany	Directors	54.3	1.2
#37	1	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Germany	Directors	54.3	0.0
#38	1	Mascha Schilinski	Germany	Directors	54.2	10.0
#39	1	Karl Freund	Germany	Directors	54.1	15.0
#40	1	Frank Beyer	Germany	Directors	53.9	15.0
#41	new	Viktor de Kowa	Germany	Directors	53.7	10.0
#42	new	Katharina Thalbach	Germany	Directors	53.6	0.0
#43	3	Veit Harlan	Germany	Directors	53.5	0.0
#44	new	Lotte Reiniger	Germany	Directors	53.3	0.0
#45	4	Richard Wilhelm	Germany	Directors	53.3	15.9
#46	4	Wolfgang Staudte	Germany	Directors	53.3	1.9
#47	3	Doris Dörrie	Germany	Directors	53.2	1.8
#48	5	Erwin Piscator	Germany	Directors	53.1	0.0
#49	4	Henry Koster	Germany	Directors	52.9	0.6
#50	4	Wolfgang Becker	Germany	Directors	52.7	0.5
#51	4	Gustav Fröhlich	Germany	Directors	52.7	1.0
#52	4	HS Harry S. Morgan	Germany	Directors	52.7	17.3
#53	4	Roland Suso Richter	Germany	Directors	52.5	11.2
#54	4	Paul Verhoeven	Germany	Directors	52.5	0.0
#55	4	MM Marcus Mittermeier	Germany	Directors	52.4	12.6
#56	4	Michael Ballhaus	Germany	Directors	52.4	0.0
#57	4	Heiner Carow	Germany	Directors	52.4	22.1
#58	4	Henny Porten	Germany	Directors	52.3	0.5
#59	4	Rita Russek	Germany	Directors	52.1	4.7
#60	new	Rudolf Schündler	Germany	Directors	51.9	4.7
#61	5	JV Joseph Vilsmaier	Germany	Directors	51.8	1.0
#62	new	Alfred Abel	Germany	Directors	51.5	0.1
#63	6	Anton Mang	Germany	Directors	51.5	5.0
#64	6	Florian Gallenberger	Germany	Directors	51.4	4.2
#65	5	Edgar Reitz	Germany	Directors	51.3	0.3
#66	7	Bora Dağtekin	Germany	Directors	51.2	17.7
#67	new	Leander Haußmann	Germany	Directors	50.9	3.5
#68	7	Helma Sanders-Brahms	Germany	Directors	50.8	1.8
#69	new	Helmut Käutner	Germany	Directors	50.8	0.0
#70	8	Ina Weisse	Germany	Directors	50.7	6.7
#71	8	Lexi Alexander	Germany	Directors	50.7	1.7
#72	8	Roland Schimmelpfennig	Germany	Directors	50.7	18.4
#73	8	Armin Maiwald	Germany	Directors	50.6	5.2
#74	8	Matti Geschonneck	Germany	Directors	50.5	15.1
#75	8	Dorothee Schneider	Germany	Directors	50.5	22.1
#76	8	Walter Frentz	Germany	Directors	50.4	1.9
#77	8	Jan-Ole Gerster	Germany	Directors	50.3	10.0
#78	new	Claus Peymann	Germany	Directors	50.3	0.8
#79	8	Paul Leni	Germany	Directors	50.3	1.8
#80	10	PS Peter Schamoni	Germany	Directors	50.1	8.7
#81	9	Kurt Neumann	Germany	Directors	50.0	21.0
#82	9	Gerhard Lamprecht	Germany	Directors	50.0	18.4
#83	9	Peter Carsten	Germany	Directors	49.8	0.0
#84	new	Jan Harlan	Germany	Directors	49.8	0.6
#85	10	Erich Pommer	Germany	Directors	49.7	0.0
#86	10	Horst Wendlandt	Germany	Directors	49.6	7.3
#87	10	Reinhold Schünzel	Germany	Directors	49.6	1.0
#88	10	Albrecht Becker	Germany	Directors	49.6	14.9
#89	10	Egon Günther	Germany	Directors	49.4	4.5
#90	10	JR Josef Rusnak	Germany	Directors	49.4	2.5
#91	10	Dieter Wedel	Germany	Directors	49.3	0.0
#92	10	Herrmann Zschoche	Germany	Directors	49.2	7.8
#93	new	Thomas Harlan	Germany	Directors	49.1	1.3
#94	new	Ulrike Ottinger	Germany	Directors	49.1	0.0
#95	12	HM Hans Moser	Germany	Directors	49.1	9.8
#96	12	Julia von Heinz	Germany	Directors	49.0	8.5
#97	12	SR Sigi Rothemund	Germany	Directors	48.9	2.9
#98	12	Lola Randl	Germany	Directors	48.8	10.0
#99	new	Heinrich Breloer	Germany	Directors	48.7	5.1
#100	new	Thor Freudenthal	Germany	Directors	48.7	0.0