Uwe Janson

German screenwriter, director and producer

Uwe Janson (born 6 November 1959, Königswinter) is a German screenwriter, director and producer. He has worked in Germany and the United Kingdom, including Business with Friends for the British Film Institute and the BBC (1991) and the British-German co-production The Sinking of the Laconia (2010; UK premiere 2011).

Selected filmography

Films

Verfolgte Wege (1989)
Heart in the Hand (1991)
At Night in the Park [de] (2002)
On the Inside (2011)
To Life! [de] (2014)

TV films

Business with Friends (1992, short)
Gefährliche Verbindung (1993)
Lauras Entscheidung (1994)
Nur der Sieg zählt (1995)
Rhapsody in Blood (1998)
Holstein Lovers (1999)
Golden Boy [de] (2000)
Babykram ist Männersache (2001)
Weihnachtsmann gesucht [de] (2002)
Instinct for Crime [de] (2003)
Baal [de] (2004, based on Baal)
Lulu (2006, based on Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box)
Peer Gynt [de] (2006, based on Peer Gynt)
Werther (2008, based on The Sorrows of Young Werther)
Volcano [de] (2009)
The Sinking of the Laconia (2010)
Aschenputtel (2011, based on Cinderella)
Die Schuld der Erben (2012)
Hänsel und Gretel (2012, based on Hansel and Gretel)
Der Minister [de] (2013)
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2013, based on The Little Match Girl)
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt (2014, based on How Six Made Their Way in the World)
Die Schlikkerfrauen [de] (2014)
Die Udo Honig Story (2015)