Hansjörg Weißbrich is an award-winning German film editor who has received numerous honors in the course of his 25 years in the industry, most recently the 2014 German Film Award (Best Editing) for Georg Maas’ Two Lives, which made the Oscar short list for Best Foreign Language Film. Weißbrich has worked with numerous German and international directors on more than 50 feature films to date. In addition to his close collaboration with Hans-Christian Schmid (Requiem, Storm), the editor has worked with Bille August (Night Train to Lisbon, starring Jeremy Irons; 55 Steps, with Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank), Aleksandr Sokurov (Francofonia), Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger (Colonia, starring Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl; Quiero ser) and Marco Kreuzpaintner (Trade, with Kevin Kline). Most recently, Weißbrich edited The Aspern Papers, directed by young French director Julien Landais and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Yuval Adler&rsqu
Hansjörg Weißbrich is an award-winning German film editor who has received numerous honors in the course of his 25 years in the industry, most recently the 2014 German Film Award (Best Editing) for Georg Maas’ Two Lives, which made the Oscar short list for Best Foreign Language Film. Weißbrich has worked with numerous German and international directors on more than 50 feature films to date. In addition to his close collaboration with Hans-Christian Schmid (Requiem, Storm), the editor has worked with Bille August (Night Train to Lisbon, starring Jeremy Irons; 55 Steps, with Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank), Aleksandr Sokurov (Francofonia), Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger (Colonia, starring Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl; Quiero ser) and Marco Kreuzpaintner (Trade, with Kevin Kline). Most recently, Weißbrich edited The Aspern Papers, directed by young French director Julien Landais and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Yuval Adler’s The Operative, with Diane Kruger. His other feature credits include Maria Schrader’s Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe, Petra Volpe’s The Divine Order and Emily Atef’s 3 Days in Quiberon. Weißbrich’s documentary work includes Master of the Universe, winner of a 2014 European Film Award, and social media doc The Cleaners, which premiered at Sundance in 2018. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy.
