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Biography of Christoph Mangler:

"Dear Mr. Mangler. It has been a pleasure working with you. Your creative direction and vision are greatly inspiring and I hope to be working with you again in the future !" (CURSE, 07/2006)

Christoph Mangler, born 1974 in Leutkirch (South Germany), is a director, photographer, editor and graphic designer. He studied "audiovisual media" at the HDM Stuttgart with focus on film, video, computeranimation and graphics and entered the music video business in 1997 as assistant director at DoRo Berlin. But assistant director was not the aim. In 1999 the directing team TWODIRECTORS was established together with Mathias Vielsäcker, first represented by the berlin based film production BLOW FILM. Since this year Christoph, a.k.a. DerMangler, realised more than 50 music videos for German and international acts as director. In parallel Christoph works as teacher at the "German Film School for Digital Artists" in Berlin, as editor and camera operator for music videos and documentations.

Photography ist his second passion. The first photography book CITY LANGUAGE BERLIN was released in march 2006 by PRESTEL (international release: summer 2006). It's a photo documentation about the "back side" of Berlin like never seen before, a tribute to the fantastic and never still standing capital of Germany. First photo exhibition in may 2006 at DESIGN MAI YOUNGSTERS in Berlin.

book release:

- CITY LANGUAGE BERLIN (photography, 128 pages, dt/eng, ISBN: 3-7913-3610-X, release: 03.2006)

photo exhibition:

- CITY LANGUAGE BERLIN (at DesignMai Youngsters, Berlin, 17-21.05.2006, www.designmai-youngsters.com)

jury member:

- SHORT SHOTS Award 2006 (Berlin, 09/2006, www.shortshots.de)

projects as director:

- VALENTIN STILU "16" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 09/2006)
- CURSE "rap" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 07/2006)
- LAURA LOPEZ CASTRO "no es por ser ni por estar" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 06/2006)
- LUNIK "little bit" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 06/2006)
- THE XXX "you don't know me at all" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 05/2006)
- DELIA "du w*chser" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 03/2006)
- RENO "deutschland" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 02/2006)
- PYRANJA "mecklenburg-vorpommern" (bundesvision song contest 2006-trailer, 01/2006)
- PYRANJA "nie wieder" (music video, dir: christoph mangler, 12/2005)
- ENIK "why do you love me" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2005)
- THE RASMUS "sail away" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2005)
- PAULA "es kommt immer alles anders" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 08/2005)
- MANGLER+NOLLER (image film, dir: christoph mangler, client: mangler+noller, 06/2005)
- RINGTONE "call me up" (commercial, dir: christoph mangler, client: sharky mobile, 06/2005)
- RINGTONE "the nerd" (commercial, dir: christoph mangler, client: sharky mobile, 06/2005)
- JONES "autumn/winter 2005" (image film, dir: twodirectors, 05/2005)
- SUCH A SURGE "mission erfüllt" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 01/2005)
- MNEMIC "door 2.12" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 11/2004)
- KLEZ.E "real fernsehen" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 11/2004)
- ITALO RENO & GERMANY "na und !?!" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 11/2004)
- SURF "I'm a boy" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2004)
- ELLI "not my type" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2004)
- CALIBAN "the beloved and the hatred" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2004)
- VANILLA NINJA "when the indians cry" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 08/2004)
- ASHANA "u gonna get it" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 07/2004)
- ELLI "in my dream" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 06/2004)
- BIZ MARKIE "friends" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2004)
- SANDY "unnatural blonde" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2004)
- 4LYN "kisses of a strobelight" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2004)
- VANILLA NINJA "don't go too fast" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2004)
- ROD MICHAEL "someday" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2004)
- COSMO "mai usor" (commercial, dir: twodirectors, agency: D'Arcy, production: Sagafilm, 11/2003)
- VANILLA NINJA "tough enough" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2003)
- DESIRE "why me" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2003)
- TAPE "yeeha" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 08/2003)
- ASD "sag mir wo die party ist!" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 05/2003)
- CURSE "innere sicherheit" (dvd, dir: twodirectors, 02/2003)
- CURSE "innere sicherheit" (dvd/work in progress, dir: twodirectors, 01/2003)
- CURSE "hand hoch" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2003)
- SINCERE "killerboys on acid" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 01/2003)
- FEHLFARBEN "club der schönen mütter" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2002)
- YUNDI LI "la campanella" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 07/2002)
- DJ STYLEWARZ FEAT. TORCH & D-FLAME "bitte...wer?" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 07/2002)
- TELL YOUR MOTHER "just sitting here" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2002)
- AMLESET "ich will dich" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 12/2001)
- AMLESET "beginner" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 12/2001)
- CURSE "so nicht" (digital guerilla edit) (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2001)
- CURSE "warum nicht?" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2001)
- APOCALYPTICA FEAT. M. SAYER "hope vol.II" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 10/2001)
- MYSTKAL FEAT. BEKTAS "jump (Amber Remix)" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 09/2001)
- CURSE "lass uns doch freunde sein" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 08/2001)
- EMIL BULLS "leaving you with this" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 05/2001)
- TEFLA & JALEEL "postwendend" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2001)
- TEFLA & JALEEL "beats & raps" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2001)
- ECHOES OF YOUTH "muchu" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2001)
- KEILERKOPF "nix zu verliern" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 01/2001)
- SAMIR "tut gut" (music video, dir: twodirectors,10/2000)
- CURSE "hassliebe" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 05/2000)
- ATEMLOS "nichts mehr von dir" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 04/2000)
- CURSE "zehn rap gesetze" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2000)
- TRISTAN "fressen und gefressen werden" (music video, dir: twodirectors, 02/2000)

projects as dop/camera operator:

projects as editor:

nominations & awards:

TRISTAN "fressen und gefressen werden"
- mecon 2000/new talent award: 2nd place in the category "visual effects"
- clip 2001: nominated for "best edit" (editor: ilka risse)

CURSE "zehn rap gesetze"
- juice-award 03/2001 (magazine): nominated for "best national Hip-Hop Video 2000" (won 5th place)

KEILERKOPF "nix zu verliern"
- mecon 2001/new talent award: nominated in the category "best video"

CURSE "lass uns doch freunde sein/denk an mich"
- clip+ - der musikvideoschnittpreis: nominated for "best edit" (editor: sven budelmann).

FEHLFARBEN "club der schönen Mütter"
- internationale kurzfilmtage oberhausen/muvi-preis: nominated in the category "best video"

DJ STYLEWARZ FEAT. TORCH & D-FLAME "bitte...wer?"
- animago award 2003: 3rd place in the category "music video professional/animation" (animation by andy probst, x-or animation/augsburg)