Matthias Glasner was born in Hamburg in 1965. In the 90s, he made the hipster trilogy Die Mediocren (1995), Sexy Sadie (1996) and Fandango (2006) for the cinema, all of which premiered at the Berlinale. This was followed by the films The Free Will (2009), Berlinale Competition), This is Love (2011, San Sebastian Competition) and Mercy (2015, Berlinale Competition).  For television, he has directed the series KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (Grimme Prize and German Television Prize) and, as writer and director, the series Blochin – Die Lebenden Und Die Toten, as well as the two-part series Landgericht (Grimme Prize) based on the novel of the same name and winner of the German Book Prize by Ulrike Krechel.