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Bora Dagtekin
Bora Dagtekin
Born	27 October 1978 (age 46); Hanover, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, film director
Years active	1994–present

Bora Dagtekin (born 27 October 1978) is a German screenwriter and film director who has directed several of the most successful German-language films, notably Fack ju Göhte.

Early life

Dagtekin was born and raised in Hanover to a German mother and a Turkish father and moved to Ludwigsburg to study screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, graduating in 2006. His thesis screenplay was an retelling of the classic German play The Robbers as an action film.^[1]

Career

Dagtekin worked as a writer in the advertising industry before finding employment as a writer for various German television series, among them the soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. His directorial debut was Türkisch für Anfänger (2006–2009); he also wrote and directed a feature-length film with the same name in 2012.^[2]

His biggest success was the 2013 film Fack ju Göhte, which was the fourth-most successful German film ever as measured by audience numbers and spawned a movie franchise with two sequels as well as a musical and a spin-off.

Personal life

Dagtekin is known to keep his private life out of the public eye.^[3] He has stated in interviews that his films are unapologetically commercial rather than artistic and that this is a reflection of his personal taste, as he does not enjoy the more experimental style of art films.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2003	Toyotafahrer leben länger	No	Yes	No	Short film
2005	Season Greetings	No	Yes	No	Short film
2006	Where Is Fred?	No	Yes	No
2008	Eine wie keiner	No	Yes	No
2012	Turkish for Beginners [de]	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Fack ju Göhte	Yes	Yes	Co-producer
2015	Fack ju Göhte 2	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Fack ju Göhte 3	Yes	Yes	Yes
2019	The Perfect Secret [de]	Yes	Yes	Yes
2024	Chantal im Märchenland	Yes	Yes	No

Writer

Year	Title	Writer	Notes
2001	Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten	Yes	1 episode
2004	Meine schönsten Jahre	Yes	1 episode
2004–2005	Schulmädchen	Yes	7 episodes; also co-creator
2006–2008	Türkisch für Anfänger	Yes	43 episodes; also creator
2007–2008	Doctor's Diary	Yes	24 episodes; also creator
2010	Undercover Love [de]	Yes	Television film