---
name: "Frank Griebe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-griebe"
fi1m_id: "frank-griebe"
imdb_id: "nm0340864"
tmdb_id: 1077
wikidata_id: "Q95805"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "28 August 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:58:50.969084+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."
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# Frank Griebe

## Identity

Frank Griebe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frank-griebe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frank-griebe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0340864
- **TMDB ID:** 1077
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95805
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Griebe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340864/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077

Cinematographer. Born 28 August 1964 in Hamburg, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 28 August 1964, Hamburg, Germany
- **Active:** 1998–2017
- **Frequently works with:** [Stefan Arndt](https://film.one/person/stefan-arndt.md), [Tom Tykwer](https://film.one/person/tom-tykwer.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Griebe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340864/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077

## Coming up

- *Ghost Song* (2026-11-05), Director of Photography

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Babylon Berlin*](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*Run Lola Run*](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md) (82)

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## Biography

Frank Griebe is a German cinematographer born on 28 August 1964 in Hamburg. He trained as a film copy maker and camera assistant before becoming a director of photography in 1991.

Griebe has had a long-standing collaboration with director Tom Tykwer, serving as cinematographer on all of Tykwer's feature films from *Deadly Maria* (1993) onwards, including *Run Lola Run* (1998), *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), *Heaven* (2002), *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* (2006) and *Cloud Atlas* (2012, shared credit with John Toll). He has also worked with directors including Sebastian Schipper on *Absolute Giganten* (1999) and Franka Potente on *Home* (2020).

Griebe has received several awards, including the German Film Award for *Run Lola Run*, *Winter Sleepers* (1997) and *Trains 'n' Roses* (1998), the European Film Award for *Perfume*, and the Marburg Camera Award in 2002. He shared the 2013 German Film Award for *Cloud Atlas*.

*Sources: filmportal.de, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, frankgriebe.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Fi1m 82, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

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

- *Ghost Song* (2026), Director of Photography
- *The Physician II* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Delicious* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Mr. K* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Every You Every Me* (2024), Director of Photography
- *The Dive* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Funeral for a Dog* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *Home* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Lara* (2019), Director of Photography
- *25 km/h* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise* (2017), Director of Photography
- *If I Think of Germany at Night* (2017), Director of Photography
- *A Hologram for the King* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Anderson* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Cloud Atlas* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Rosakinder* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Three* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Longing for Beauty* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation* (2009), Director of Photography
- *The International* (2009), Director of Photography
- *A Man of Confidence: Ralf Otterpohl, Water Specialist* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Ramses* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Germany: A Summer's Fairytale* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), Director of Photography
- *NVA* (2005), Director of Photography
- *Cowgirl* (2004), Director of Photography
- *True* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Berlin Blues* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Shocking Shorts 2003* (2003), Director
- *Naked* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Heaven* (2002), Director of Photography
- *La mer* (2002), Director, Writer
- *Die Aufschneider* (2000), Director of Photography
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Gigantic* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Director of Photography — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)
- *Train Birds* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Winter Sleepers* (1997), Director of Photography
- *The Burning Snail* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Deadly Maria* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Epilog* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Because* (1990), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018 - Frank Griebe, Bernd Fischer, Philipp Haberlandt für Babylon Berlin (Beste Kamera)](https://film.one/media/person/87831/gallery-aa0c35705a52.jpg) Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018 - Frank Griebe, Bernd Fischer, Philipp Haberlandt für Babylon Berlin (Beste Kamera) — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7696.jpg/1280px-2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7696.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frank Griebe, Bernd Fischer und Philipp Haberlandt, für Babylon Berlin (Beste Kamera, Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018).](https://film.one/media/person/87831/gallery-cfff09ea494e.jpg) Frank Griebe, Bernd Fischer und Philipp Haberlandt, für Babylon Berlin (Beste Kamera, Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018). — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7699.jpg/1280px-2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7699.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frank Griebe attending German TV-Awards 2025 at 2026-05-08](https://film.one/media/person/87831/gallery-2e292115d85a.jpg) Frank Griebe attending German TV-Awards 2025 at 2026-05-08 — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/2026-05-08-Frank_Griebe-Deutscher_Kamerapreis_2026_-R_066356.jpg/1280px-2026-05-08-Frank_Griebe-Deutscher_Kamerapreis_2026_-R_066356.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frank Griebe](https://film.one/media/person/87831/gallery-744a1055ea5c.jpg) Frank Griebe — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Frank_Griebe%2C_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won, 3 nominated

- German Film Award for Best Cinematography 2021: German Film Award for Best Cinematography (nominated), for *Home*
- European Film Award for Best Cinematographer 2007: European Film Award for Best Cinematographer (won), for *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer*
- European Film Award for Best Cinematographer 2002: European Film Award for Best Cinematographer (nominated), for *Heaven*
- Marburg Camera Award 2002: Marburg Camera Award (won)
- European Film Award for Best Cinematographer 2001: European Film Award for Best Cinematographer (nominated), for *The Princess and the Warrior*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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