MARC BAUDER

director of the film ‘Whistleblower’

Marc was born in Stuttgart in 1974. He first studied Business Administration in Cologne, St. Gallen and New York, and later attended the Babelsberg Film University. In 1999, he founded his own production company, bauderfilm GmbH, producing documentaries such as “jeder schweigt von etwas anderem” (Last to Know – Berlinale 2006). 2011 was the debut of his award-winning feature film “THE SYSTEM”. His documentary “MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE” won, among others, the European Film Prize and the German Documentary Film Award. Together with his brother, he developed the art installation LICHTGRENZE to mark the 25-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2014. In 2017, his feature film “DEAD MAN WORKING” won the Grimme Prize. His documentary “WHO WE WERE” celebrated its world premiere at the BERLINALE 2021 and was awarded the Hessian Film Prize. Marc is a member of the European and German Film Academies.