Christoph Mangler, born 1974 in Leutkirch (South Germany), is a director, photographer, editor and graphic designer. He studied "audiovisual media" at the HDM Stuttgart with focus on film, video, computer animation and graphics and entered the music video business in 1997 as assistant director at DoRo Berlin. In 1999 the directing team TWODIRECTORS was established together with Mathias Vielsäcker, first represented by the berlin based film production BLOW FILM. Since this year Christoph, a.k.a. DerMangler, realised more than 70 music videos for German and international acts as director, for example: THE RASMUS, APOCALYPTICA, SUCH A SURGE, CALIBAN, MENEMIC, TAPE, EMIL BULLS, KEILERKOPF, 4LYN, SINCERE, KLEZ.E, FEHLFARBEN, SURF, PAULA, BIZ MARKIE, CURSE, ASD, ITALO RENO & GERMANY, DJ STYLEWARZ, LAURA LOPEZ CASTRO, SCAB and KARMADEVA. In parallel Christoph works as teacher at the BABELSBERG FILM SCHOOL in Potsdam-Babelsberg, as editor and camera operator.
Christoph Mangler is represented by SCHUHWERK FILM PRODUCTION (www.schuhwerk.tv, tel. 0049-30-411 98 100).
Photography ist his second passion. The first photography book CITY LANGUAGE BERLIN was released in march 2006 by PRESTEL. It's a photo documentation about the "back side" of Berlin like never seen before, a tribute to the fantastic and never still standing capital of Germany. The second photography book BERLIN SAGT ... will be released in spring 2009 by PRESTEL. First photo exhibition in may 2006 at DESIGN MAI YOUNGSTERS in Berlin.
"Dear Mr. Mangler. It has been a pleasure working with you. Your creative direction and vision are greatly inspiring and I hope to be working with you again in the future !" (CURSE, 07/2006)
- SHORT SHOTS Award 2006 (Berlin, 09/2006,
www.shortshots.de)