The Crew
Axel B. Steinmueller - Writer, Director & Executive Proucer
In 1992, he gave his stage debut as a singer and actor at the Schwetzinger Castle Festival. From 1992 on he studied Dramatics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. During his time at University, he performed in several films and theater plays. He graduated in 1996 receiving his Master of Arts degree for his thesis: „Georg Kreisler and the Viennese Wit.” From 1996-1998, he sharpened his acting skills at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. Since 1998, he has been working continuously as an actor and presenter. Parallel to his acting career he has been working as a writer and director of corporate films, events and trade fair presentations. „Why Siegfried Teitelbaum had to die“ is his first feature film.
Facio - Composer
Facio is a musical globetrotter. As a composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter he feels at home in many musical genres. Besides recording under the pseudonym Facio, the Germany-born musician with Italian roots is also successfully composing music for films and advertisements. He was engaged by the Charles Dickens museum in London to compose the music for their theatre performance "Dickens goes astray". He also wrote the score for the film "You look stunning too" which was in the competitive choice of the film Festival in Cannes 2013.
Bogdan Kramliczek - Director of Photography
Has been working as a freelance photographer for numerous enterprises, magazines and agencies since the nineties. In 2010, he began to work short film projects as a camera operator. Since 2013, he has been a field producer at the Bavarian broadcasting company, Bayerischer Rundfunk. He teaches workshops on image processing and editing at the college for music and theatre in Munich. He continues to work as a freelance photographer.
Tilman Schulz - Editor
Since his graduation seven years ago, Tilman Schulz has been working as an editor for numerous TV formats. While he enjoys working on entertainment and docutainment formats, he is particularly fond of editing footage of cars. Over the past years, Tilman has moved toward editing narratives. He has cut short and medium length films. His most recent film „Fremde Nähe“ was part of the official festival program at the international Hofer Filmtage in 2015.
Conny Haas - Line Producer
Conny Haas is a born talent when it comes to organization! With her kind way she executes every task in no time. Precise and exact. She usually works in the IT and in the financial sector as a controller and Contentmanager. Though “Why Siegfried Teitelbaum had to die“ was her first film project as a line producer, Conny was the heart and the back bone of the production. Just as if she has had done nothing else in her life as being a line producer.