Claudia Garde

Claudia Garde was born in Bremen, West Germany.^{[citation needed]}

She studied at acting schools in London and Paris after graduating from high school.^{[citation needed]}

From 1992 to 1993 Garde worked in France as a theatre actress at various theatres before returning to Germany to study writing and directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. She acquired her diploma in directing in 1998 with the feature film Die Man Liebt....^{[citation needed]}

In the year 2000 she began her career as a director and screenwriter with several television films.^{[1][failed verification][better source needed]} and TV series. So she worked on episodes of series such as Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, and the series Flemming.^{[citation needed]}

She has also directed several episodes of the Tatort series, where shas worked with actors like Axel Milberg, Klaus J. Behrendt, and Simone Thomalla.^{[citation needed]}

She directed the TV movie Die Frau am Ende der Straße (2007), with Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt in the leading roles.^[2]

In 2021 and 2022 she directed the six-part political thriller TV series set in post-war Germany, Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde, starring Mercedes Müller in the lead role, along with Max Riemelt, Sebastian Blomberg, Martin Wuttke, and a number of other well-known German actors.^[3][4] The series was broadcast on Das Erste in January 2023.^[5]

In addition to her work as a director for film and television, Garde has also worked as a freelance writer and lecturer.^{[citation needed]}

She has collaborated with British composer Colin Towns.^{[citation needed]}

• The Tatort episode "Kindstod" was awarded the Golden Gong and received two German TV Awards.^{[citation needed]}
• 2006: VFF TV-Movie Award for the TV-Movie Die Frau am Ende der Straße^[2]
• 2006: Grimme-Preis-Nomination for Die Frau am Ende der Straße^[2]
• 2010: Grimme-Preis-Nomination in the category Fiction for Flemming with Gregor Edelmann^{[citation needed]}