Manuela Stacke was born in 1970 in Heidelberg. After studies in Theater, Film, and Media as well as Education Science of Art in Erlangen and Frankfurt/Main, she enrolled at the Munich Academy of Television and Film to study Documentary Film and TV Journalism. From 2003 through 2004, she worked as an assistant director to George Tabori, Peter Zadek, and Rolf Krieg at the Berliner Ensemble. As a freelancer, she writes and directs for the German TV broadcasters RBB, SWR, and BR. Children of the Moon (Mondscheinkinder, 2006) is her first feature and graduation film from the Munich Academy of Television and Film.

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