Christoph Silber

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Christoph Silber
Born	(1975-04-26) 26 April 1975 (age 51) Berlin, Germany
Occupations	Author and filmmaker

Christoph Silber (born 26 April 1975, in Berlin) often credited as Chris Silber, is a German-American author, filmmaker and performer. Silber works and lives in the United States.

Early life

Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother Christa Schuenke is a philosopher and literary translator; his foster father Maik Hamburger was a Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge.

Career

In 1995 the Vienna Burgtheater asked him to adapt Puccini's Tosca for a stage production.

Silber's screenwriting career began in European television in the mid-1990s. Silber worked as a writer of sitcoms as well as crime series. Silber has collaborated on numerous films, including the award-winning Good Bye, Lenin!, North Face, Arranged and My Last Day Without You, for which he also co-wrote several songs performed by Nicole Beharie. He also wrote scripts for the Enid Blyton-based Hanni & Nanni franchise. Several of his contributions to German television like Tatort "Schwanensee" have broken ratings records.

Based in Los Angeles since 2012, Silber has been honoured by the Vilcek Foundation as "an immigrant filmmaker...whose creative spirit enlivens and inspires American cinema."

In 2019, Silber sold a WWII series pilot inspired by his grandfather's story to Hollywood-based Blitz Films. In 2023, Sam: A Saxon [de], a mini-series co-created and head-written by Silber, was released by Disney+ worldwide and by Hulu in the United States.

Personal life

Silbers former wife Joleita, who inspired his film My Last Day Without You, died from cancer in 2013. He reflected on his family's grief journey in his children's book The Cloud In Our House (Die Wolke Unterm Dach), which was released in Germany in 2022.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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References

External links

• Christoph Silber at IMDb
• Personal Blog