Jan Schütte
Film director, Screenwriter · Germany · On the map · Directors · Born 1957 · age 69
Jan Schütte is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1982. After graduating from high school, he studied literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen, Zurich and Hamburg. From 1979 he worked as a television reporter for regional TV programs.
Jan Schütte is read about 7 times a day, in 10 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Love Comes LatelyFilm, Director, Writer2003
SuperTexFilm, Director2000
The FarewellFilm, Director1999
Fette WeltFilm, Director, Writer1995Eine Reise in das Innere von WienFilm, Director, Writer1994
Bye Bye AmericaFilm, Director, Writer1990
Winckelmanns ReisenFilm, Director1989Verloren in AmerikaFilm, Director, Writer1987
Dragon ChowFilm, Director, Writer1984Eigentlich wollte ich ja nach AmerikaFilm, Director1983Da ist nirgends nichts gewesen außer hierFilm, Director, Writer1979Bavarian Film AwardsSeries1964Grimme AwardSeries1957Born26 June 1957People around Jan
Close ties
Otto Tausig Jan directed Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994)
Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger Jan directed Winckelmann's Travels (1990)
George Tabori Jan directed Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994)
Aleksander Bardini Jan directed Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994)
Traugott Buhre Jan directed Winckelmann's Travels (1990)
Zofia Merle Jan directed Auf Wiedersehen Amerika (1994)- Mathias Gnädinger Jan directed Winckelmann's Travels (1990)
Ulrich Wildgruber Also in Dragon Chow and Verloren in Amerika
Barbara Hershey Jan directed Love Comes Lately (2009)
Rhea Perlman Jan directed Love Comes Lately (2009)
Elizabeth Peña Jan directed Love Comes Lately (2009)
Jan Decleir Jan directed SuperTex (2004)
Jürgen Vogel Jan directed Fat World (1999)
Ulrich Matthes Jan produced The Farewell (2000)
Stephen Mangan Jan directed SuperTex (2004)
Josef Bierbichler Jan produced The Farewell (2000)
Jeanette Hain Jan directed The Farewell (2000)
Dieter Pfaff Jan directed Bloch: Verfolgt (2010)
Ursula Werner Jan directed Bloch: Verfolgt (2010)
Samuel Finzi Jan produced The Farewell (2000)
Tracy-Ann Oberman Jan directed SuperTex (2004)
Lisa Kay Jan directed SuperTex (2004)- Niki List Produced Eine Reise in das Innere von Wien (1995)
Victoria Trauttmansdorff Jan directed Bloch: Verfolgt (2010)
Also in Français
Filmography 11
23 credits on file
Television 3
Media & music
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Awards
About this person
His first feature film Dragon Chow premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1987. His film The Farewell was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Schütte was director of the German Film and Television Academy and is the director of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
