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Erec Brehmer, born in 1987 in Vechta, first completed an apprenticeship as media designer for image and sound at the public broadcasting company ZDF. In 2010 he began studying directing at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich. During his studies he realised short and medium-length films that were shown at international festivals. As an editor he worked on short, image and commercial films by other directors and in this capacity he also worked for TV productions such as "Unter unserem Himmel - In Füssen" (2014), "Tierisch unterwegs" (2014) and "Wer zieht ein? (2017). He also edited the trailers for "Mollath – und plötzlich bist du verrückt" (2015) and "Schau mich nicht so an" ("Don't Look at Me That Way", 2015) as a student. Together with Lisa Geretschläger he was the editor for the feature film "Agonie" ("Agony", 2016), the graduation film of his HFF fellow student David Clay Diaz.
Brehmer's own medium-length feature film "Voicemail", about an ambitious journalist (Constantin von Jascheroff) and the case of a missing girl, premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in January 2016. Numerous other festival participations followed. Among others, "Voicemail" was awarded Best Student Film at the Figueira FilmArt Festival (Portugal); at the Landshut Short Film Festival the psychodrama won the audience award.
Also at the Max Ophüls Film Festival, Erec Bremer presented his HFF graduation film "La Palma" in January 2018, the story of a young couple who freshen up their deadlocked relationship during their holidays by means of bizarre role-plays. At the Grenzland-Filmtage Selb festival 2019 "La Palma" won the audience award and the award for best film location. The German cinema release followed in June 2020.
In 2020, Brehmer also participated in the ZFF Academy, a talent development program of the Zurich Film Festival, and in 2021 he was selected for Berlinale Talents. He also completed the Munich Screenplay Workshop in 2021.
With "Wer wir gewesen sein werden" ("Who We Will Have Been," 2021), Brehmer made a deeply personal documentary about coping with the sudden accidental death of his partner. At the Munich Film Festival in 2022, the film received the Starter Film Award from the City of Munich.
In the following years, Brehmer worked as an editor on documentaries by other filmmakers, including Benjamin Rost’s short film "Harraga – Those Who Burn Their Lives" (2023) and Felix Moeller's "Weltkarriere einer Lüge" ("The Global Career of a Lie," 2025). In parallel, he began studying Japanology in Munich in 2024, focusing on non-Western narrative models and dramaturgical structures.
Together with Benjamin Rost, he began shooting the documentary "Born to Fake" in 2023, about Michael Born, who caused a major media scandal in the 1990s with fabricated newspaper reports. The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2025, where it received the One Future Prize from the Interfilm Academy Munich, the Baden-Württemberg Film Award at the Stuttgart Film Exhibition, and the Documentary Film Prize at the Biberach Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in May 2026.