Biography
Tajo Hurrle was born in 1998 in the south of Germany. They directed their first short film at the age of eight. From 2017 to 2021, they studied Motion Pictures at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt with a personal focus on screenwriting and directing as well as queer perspectives and young target groups.
Tajo Hurrle's first student short film "Fisch-Bowle" ("A Fish in a Punch Bowl") won the German Youth Film Award 2019 and screened at international film festivals. Their second film "Bandsalat" ("The Purple Child") premiered at the LUCAS Filmfestival, Germany’s oldest film festival for a young audience and won "Best Youth Film" at Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival.
Tajo Hurrle successfully graduated in 2021 with the short film "Weil ich Leo bin" ("I am Leo") which had its American premiere at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. The film was screened at over 50 festivals worldwide and won the award for Best Short Film for Children at KUKI Berlin, among others.
2021/22 they were scholar of the Akademie für Kindermedien (academy for children's media) and participant of the STEP program of Hessen Film & Medien.
Currently, they are primarily working on serial formats for public broadcasters, including the Grimme Prize-nominated youth series "ECHT friends," but are also pursuing their own projects in parallel. As a non-binary person, Tajo Hurrle advocates for empowering and multifaceted queer representation in films and series.
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