Leander Haußmann

Leander Haußmann is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he was born in Quedlinburg and attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin. Haußmann was the theatre director of the city theatre in Bochum. He also wrote and acted in several plays, and had a role in the Detlev Buck film Jailbirds. His feature film breakthrough came with Sonnenallee in 1999. His second feature, Herr Lehmann, followed in 2003.