Oskar Roehler ( born 21 January 1959 ) is a German film director , screenwriter and journalist . He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler . Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter , for , among others , Niklaus Schilling , Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter . Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director . For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis . His 2010 film '' Jew Suss : Rise and Fall '' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
Oskar Roehler