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Christoph Silber (often credited as Chris Silber), born 26 April 1971 in Berlin, is a German-American author and filmmaker. Rated among "Europe's hottest new screenwriters" by Screen International, Silber works and lives in the United States.

Christoph Silber

Early life


Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother is a philosopher and award-winning literary translator, his foster father was a well-known Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge. Silber's step-grandmother fought the Nazis in WWII as a Soviet secret agent. His grandfather was a denazification officer for the Allied Forces and confronted former Nazi leaders after the war. Writing runs in Silber's family, with several journalists and published authors in his bloodline.


Career


Silber worked as an actor, translator and journalist prior to his professional writing career. Taking advantage of his bilingual upbringing, he translated film-related books and screenplays for German book publishers, including Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. The book became a best-seller and led to Silber's first assignment as a playwright. In 1995 the acclaimed Vienna Burgtheater asked him to adapt Puccini's Tosca for a stage production. This led to further theatre work and connections in the film industry.

Silber's screenwriting career began in European television in the mid-1990s. A genre traveller, Silber worked as a head writer of sitcoms as well as crime series. Silber has collaborated on numerous films, including the award-winning Good Bye, Lenin!, North Face,[1] Arranged and My Last Day Without You, for which he also co-wrote several songs performed by Nicole Beharie. He also established himself in the family entertainment market with his feature film scripts for the highly successful Enid Blyton-based Hanni & Nanni franchise. Several of his contributions to German television 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."[2]

In 2019, Silber sold a WWII series pilot inspired by his grandfather's story to Hollywood-based Blitz Films. In 2021, Disney+ announced Sam - A Saxon, a mini-series co-created by Silber, as their first German original production with him attached as a head writer.


Personal life


Silbers former wife Joleita, who inspired his film My Last Day Without You, died from cancer in 2013.[3] 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.[4] In 2022 Silber married the American actress and writer Tracey Graves.


Filmography



Theatrical



Television



Awards and nominations



Wins



Nominations



References


  1. Holden, Stephen (29 January 2010). "New York Times North Face Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  2. "Fate Or Just Love". 15 October 2011.
  3. "Beyond Black & White My Last Day Without You Creator loses wife".
  4. "Chris Silber Die Wolke Unterm Dach".



На других языках

[de] Christoph Silber

Christoph Martin „Chris“ Silber (* 26. April 1971 in Berlin als Christoph Schuenke) ist ein deutscher Autor, der in den USA lebt. Im Filmgeschäft ist er neben seiner Arbeit an deutsch- und englischsprachigen Drehbüchern auch als Produzent und Regisseur in Erscheinung getreten.
- [en] Christoph Silber


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