Stefan Arndt

Stefan Arndt was born in Munich in 1961. He is a co-founder and partner (with Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker) of the creative joint venture X Filme Creative Pool, as well as a co-founder and board member of the distributor X Verleih. The self-taught filmmaker was a founding member of the Sputnik Collective in Berlin in 1984. In 1992 he joined Tom Tykwer to found the film production company Liebesfilm, which a year later created Tykwer's directorial debut, Deadly Maria. In June 2003, he was named European Producer of the Year, for his successful production of Good Bye, Lenin! Since January 2001, he has served on the board of the film producers' interest group film20 and, since September 2003, as Chairperson of the board of directors of the German Film Academy.