---
name: "Claus Wehlisch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/claus-wehlisch"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T20:05:49.681683+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Claus Wehlisch

Editor. Born 1 January 1972 in Berlin, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Berlin, Germany
- **Active:** 1999–2017
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Mystery 2, Animation 1, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $281m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30318733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917583/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24219

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Babylon Berlin*](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Claus Wehlisch is a German film editor. Born in Berlin in 1972, he trained as a sound engineer at the SAE Institute in London from 1993 to 1995 before focusing on film editing from the late 1990s.

He worked as an assistant or co-editor on international productions including *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (2001), *The Three Musketeers* (2011) and *Cloud Atlas* (2012). As lead editor he has contributed to more than a dozen feature films and television series, notably *Babylon Berlin* (2017–2022, 40 episodes), *Furia* (2021) and *Chantal in Fairyland* (2024).

Wehlisch received the Deutscher Kamerapreis in 2016 for *Polizeiruf 110: Und vergib uns unsere Schuld* and a Grimme Prize in 2018 for *Babylon Berlin*. Since 2016 he has served on the board of the Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e.V. and is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de, bfs-filmeditor.de.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Corpse Bride* (2005), Fi1m 72, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/corpse-bride.md)
- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Fi1m 81, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Other People's Money* (2025), series, Editor
- *Chantal in Fairyland* (2024), Editor
- *The Sheikh* (2022), series, Editor
- *Fly* (2021), Editor
- *Furia* (2021), series, Editor
- *Memory Games* (2019), Director
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Your Children* (2016), Editor
- *Stadtlandliebe* (2016), Editor
- *V8 - Revenge of the Nitros* (2015), Editor
- *Hector and the Search for Happiness* (2014), Editor
- *V8 - Start Your Engines* (2013), Editor
- *Cloud Atlas* (2012), Editor
- *No Place on Earth* (2012), Editor
- *Homecoming* (2012), Editor
- *The Three Musketeers* (2011), Editor
- *The End Is My Beginning* (2010), Editor
- *Henri 4* (2010), Editor
- *Burlesque Fairytales* (2010), Editor
- *Corpse Bride* (2005), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/corpse-bride.md)
- *Birth* (2004), Editor
- *The Last Horror Movie* (2004), Editor
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life* (2003), VFX Editor
- *Oh Marbella!* (2003), Editor
- *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (2001), Assistant Editor
- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)

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