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Dirk Kummer (born 29 September 1966 in Hennigsdorf) is a German actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing movies Sugar Sand (2017), Wohin mit den Witwen (1999) and Rosenzweig's Freedom (1998).
His first big movie role was in one of the last DEFA productions called Coming Out. In addition to his involvement as one of the main actors in the role of 'Matthias', he worked in this production as assistant to director Heiner Carow. The premiere of the film took place on the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall (9 November 1989), at the East Berlin premiere at Kino International.
In 1992, Kummer went to Switzerland and took acting classes there for one year at the University of Music and Performing Arts Bern (now part of University of the Arts Bern). From 1993 to 2002, he worked only sporadically as an actor and mainly as a directing assistant among others with Konrad Sabrautzky, ( Mein Leben & Ich), Kaspar Heidelbach ( ), Susanne Schneider ( The Day Will Come), Anna Justice ( Remembrance (2011)) and Gunther Scholz. In 2002, he received an author scholarship from the Drehbuchwerkstatt Nürnberg and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Since about 2003, Dirk Kummer works almost exclusively as a director and scriptwriter. After stops in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Berlin, he now resides again in Brandenburg.
He has also directed plays at theatres including "Carl's Work - Part 1" (in 2014) and "The Abolition of the Night" (in 2015) at Schauspiel Köln.
His short film Zuckersand was awarded the 'Bernd Burgemeister Fernsehpreis' at the 2017 Munich Film Festival, the 3sat Audience Award at the 2010 Baden-Baden TV Film Festival and the Grimme-Preis in 2018. His Screenplay for the film was awarded a prize in 2003, the Thomas Strittmatter Award.
| 1979 | My Father's Streetcar | (TV film, also known as Meines Vaters Straßenbahn) | |
| 1986 | Rund um die Uhr | 'Jugendlicher im Fuhrwerk' or teenager in wagon | (TV series, 1 episode) |
| 1988 | Die andere Liebe | as himself | (short documentary)Frackman, Kyle (2018) Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies. In Frackman, Kyle; Steward, Faye (eds.) Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Rochester, NY: Camden HouseKyle Frackman and Faye Stewart (editors) |
| 1989 | Coming Out | 'Matthias' | Von Hans Helmut Prinzler |
| 1992 | The Mistake (or Die Verfehlung) | Holger Bosch Brigitta B. Wagner (Editor) | |
| 1995 | Kanzlei Bürger | Edgar Wunsch | (TV series, 1 episode) |
| 1998 | 100 Years of Brecht (or 'Hundert Jahre Brecht') | actor | Documentary |
| Sergio Pavese | (TV series, 1 episode "Letzter Bluff") | ||
| 1999 | Die Hochzeitskuh | Conductor | (TV movie) |
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