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Katrin Gebbe, born in 1983, studied fine arts and visual communication at the Academy of Visual Arts and Design (AKI) in Enschede, the Netherlands. During this time, she made her first experimental films and, after graduating with a Bachelor's degree in design in 2006, took up a Master's degree course in film direction at the Hamburg Media School. By the time she graduated in 2008, Gebbe had made several short films, some of which were award-winning; her 22-minute graduation film "Sores & Sirin" was screened at numerous international festivals, received the European Young CIVIS Media Prize in 2009, was nominated for the First Steps Awards and the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis (screenplay category) and was awarded a prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
Her feature film debut, the unusually radical drama "Tore tanzt" ("Nothing Bad Can Happen"), celebrated its premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival 2013 and met with very mixed, but at times almost euphoric reactions. The following year, Gebbe was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize as best up-and-coming director and nominated for the German Film Prize.
For the band Meadow she shot a music video in 2015 starring Maren Kroymann and Ludger Pistor to the song "I am the rain if you are the meadow", which deals with domestic violence in the form of a dark fable. Afterwards she directed the first case of Heike Makatsch's chief commissioner Ellen Berlinger "Fünf Minuten Himmel" (2016), an episode of the "Tatort" series. For the international horror anthology "The Field Guide to Evil" (GR/NZ 2018) Gebbe realised the contribution "A Nocturnal Breath".
The psychodrama "Pelikanblut" ("Pelican Blood", 2019), a German-Bulgarian production, was about a woman (Nina Hoss) whose young adopted daughter displays increasingly frightening behaviour. At the Filmfest Hamburg 2019 the film won the Producer's Prize for German Cinema Productions, at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg it was awarded Best Feature Film. The film was theatrically released in Germany in September 2020.