Uli Hanisch
Production Design
Before working on Tom Tykwer's HEAVEN, ULI HANISCH worked as art director on WINTERSLEEPERS (1996) and THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR (2000), and is considered one of the top people in his field in Germany. He was recently responsible for the art direction on THE EXPERIMENT, for which he was awarded a German Film Prize for set design.

Hanisch was born in Nuremberg in 1967. Following his studies in visual communication in Düsseldorf, he worked as a graphic designer for various advertising agencies. In 1987 he began his collaboration with Christoph Schlingensief on his films THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1990), TERROR 2000 (1992) and UNITED TRASH (1994). As production designer and props master, he oversaw a stream of television movies, series and “The Harald Schmidt Show”. Besides German productions such as 00-SCHNEIDER – JAGD AUF NIHIL BAXTER (1994), PRAXIS DR. HASENBEIN (1996), AIMÉE & JAGUAR (1998) and SCHLARAFFENLAND (1999) Hanisch has also worked as art director on major European productions such as THE BABY OF MACON (1992) and TYKHO MOON (1995). He has worked repeatedly with Andrea Kessler since 1994.
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