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Kilian Riedhof was born in Seeheim-Jugenheim in 1971. From 1994 until 1996, he studied film at Hamburg University, where Hark Bohm was one of his instructors. Following first directing jobs for TV shows, he wrote and directed the TV drama "Riekes Liebe" (2001), which went on ton win the Fellowship Prize at the 2002 German Television Award. He continued to work as director for several television programmes, and scored a ratings success with the "Tatort" episode "Wolfsstunde", which won the Audience Award a the 2009 German Crime Drama Awards.
In 2011, his made-for-TV drama "Homevideo", which depicts a haunting case of school bullying, got rave reviews and won the German Television Award for Best Feature, the Grimme Award and the Golden Rose at the Rose d'Or Festival in Montreux.
Two years later, Kilian Riedhof presented his first theatrical release as director: "Sein letztes Rennen" stars Dieter Hallervorden as a pensioner and former Olympic Gold Medal winner, who wants to complete one more marathon. The film received very good reviews, Hallervorden won the German Film Award for his performance.
Riedhof's two-part political thriller "Der Fall Barschel" (TV, 2015), a partly fictionalized treatment of the circumstances surrounding the death of CDU politician Uwe Barschel, was also highly praised by critics. At the Munich Film Festival, it received the Bernd Burgemeister Television Award.
In the two-part "Gladbeck" (TV, 2018), Riedhof reconstructed the infamous Gladbeck hostage situation in 1988, once again garnering excellent reviews as well as several awards, including the Bavarian Television Award for Best Screenplay and the German Television Award for Best Multi-part.
Once again based on a real story, Kilian Riedhof's next feature film: the Belgian-French-German co-production "Meinen Hass bekommt ihr nicht" (2022) tells the story of Antoine Leiris, whose wife was murdered in the terrorist attack at the Bataclan music club in Paris in 2015.