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Johannes Schmid was born on October 23 1973. After studying German literature, art history, music, drama and film in Erlangen and Munich, he worked as an assistant director at several theatres and eventually started to direct plays himself. In 2001, he and Philipp Budweg founded the production company "schlicht und ergreifend". Following several shorts, he made his feature-length debut with the children's film "Blöde Mütze" ("Silly′s Sweet Summer"), which premiered at the 2007 Berlin IFF and went on to win several awards at German and international festivals. In 2011, his sophomore film "Wintertochter" ("Winter Daughter") won a screenwriting award at festival "Golderner Spatz" as well as the German Film award for Best Children's Film.
Johannes Schmid continued to work in theatre, directing the musical "Anatevka – Fiddler on the Roof" at the Dortmund opera house in 2013, Mozart's "Entführung aus dem Serail" at the Theater Sankt Gallen in 2014, and "Ronja Räubertochter", which was staged at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg (2015), the Dortmund opera (2016) and the Bonn opera house (2016/17).
His next feature film "Agnes" premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January 2016. The film about the unusual romance between a novelist and a student in which the distinction between fiction and reality becomes increasingly blurred, garnered female lead Odine Johne the newcomer award at the Max-Ophüls-Preis festival.