Jo Baier

Jo Baier
Born	(1949-02-13) 13 February 1949 (age 75) Munich, Germany
Occupation(s)	Film director, writer
Years active	1982–present

Jo Baier (born 13 February 1949) is a German film director and writer. He directed more than twenty films since 1982 and is known for Operation Valkyrie (2004), Henri 4 (2010) and Not All Were Murderers [de] (2006). He is married to Gertrud Baier.

Baier was born in Munich. He studied drama, German and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University. He graduated with a doctorate in 1980. Since 1979 he has directed primarily television documentaries and dramas.^[1]

As he grew up in a Bavarian village, his movies are often influenced by his childhood experiences.^[2]

Baier has received the Grimme-Preis and German Television Award. For Wildfire [de], his debut as a theatrical director, he was nominated for the German Film Award.^[1]

• Schiefweg (1986, TV film) — (based on stories by Emerenz Meier)
• Rosse (1989, TV film) — (based on a play by Richard Billinger [de])
• Wildfire [de] (1991, TV film) — (biographical film about Emerenz Meier)
• Hölleisengretl [de] (1995, TV film) — (based on a novel by Oskar Maria Graf)
• Der Laden [de] (1998, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Erwin Strittmatter)
• Der Weibsteufel (2000, TV film) — (based on a play by Karl Schönherr)
• Wambo [de] (2001, TV film) — (biographical film about Walter Sedlmayr)
• Verlorenes Land [de] (2002, TV film)
• Swabian Children [de] (2003, TV film) — (based on a novel by Elmar Bereuter [de] about Swabian children)
• Stauffenberg (Operation Valkyrie, 2004, TV film)
• Not All Were Murderers [de] (2006, TV film) — (based on an autobiographical book by Michael Degen)
• Das letzte Stück Himmel [de] (2007, TV film)
• Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin [de] (2008, TV film) — (biographical film about Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin)
• Henri 4 (Henry of Navarre, 2010) — (based on novels by Heinrich Mann)
• The End Is My Beginning (2010) — (based on an autobiographical book by Tiziano Terzani)
• Homecoming [de] (2012, TV film) — (based on a story by Hermann Hesse)
• Bergfried [de] (2016, TV film)

• Jo Baier at IMDb
• Jo Baier Filmportal.de
• Jo Baier im Gespräch mit Carlos Gerstenhauer (German) (PDF, 2009)