---
name: "Jan Ole Gerster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jan-ole-gerster"
fi1m_id: "jan-ole-gerster"
imdb_id: "nm1673756"
tmdb_id: 20267
wikidata_id: "Q126730"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-12T20:11:35.055747+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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# Jan Ole Gerster

## Identity

Jan Ole Gerster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jan-ole-gerster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jan-ole-gerster
- **IMDb ID:** nm1673756
- **TMDB ID:** 20267
- **Wikidata ID:** Q126730
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ole_Gerster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1673756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20267

Producer and director. Born 1 January 1978 in Hagen, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Hagen, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ole_Gerster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1673756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20267

## Biography

Jan Ole Gerster is a German film director and screenwriter. Born in 1978 in Hagen, he moved to Berlin in 2000, interned at X Filme and worked as assistant to Wolfgang Becker on *Good Bye, Lenin!* (2003). He studied directing and screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), completing several short films during his studies.

His debut feature *A Coffee in Berlin* (2012), also known as *Oh Boy*, was his DFFB graduation film. It won six Deutscher Filmpreis awards, including for best film, director and screenplay. His second feature *Lara* (2019) received awards at Karlovy Vary and other festivals. *Islands* (2025), his third feature and first in English, premiered at the Berlinale.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Islands* (2025), Fi1m 68, Director, Co-Producer, Writer, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/islands.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Islands* (2025), Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Story — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/islands.md)
- *Lara* (2019), Director
- *A Coffee in Berlin* (2012), Screenplay, Director
- *Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation* (2009), Writer
- *A Friend of Mine* (2006), as Cornelius
- *Der Brandenburger*, Director
- *Freiheit*, Director
- *German Angst*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Jan-Ole Gerster at the Berlinale reception in the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation, Berlinale 2024](https://film.one/media/person/6865659/gallery-6bbd38f27bc4.jpg) Jan-Ole Gerster at the Berlinale reception in the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation, Berlinale 2024 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/MKr350533_Jan-Ole_Gerster_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg/1280px-MKr350533_Jan-Ole_Gerster_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jan Ole Gerster](https://film.one/media/person/6865659/gallery-416e5c26b5ee.jpg) Jan Ole Gerster — Paul Katzenberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Gerster_Jan-Ole.jpg/1280px-Gerster_Jan-Ole.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2013: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *A Coffee in Berlin*
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2013: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (won), for *A Coffee in Berlin*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2013: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *A Coffee in Berlin*

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

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