---
name: "Katrin Gebbe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katrin-gebbe"
fi1m_id: "katrin-gebbe"
imdb_id: "nm3299248"
tmdb_id: 1170229
wikidata_id: "Q15447457"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:17:31.732633+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."
---

# Katrin Gebbe

## Identity

Katrin Gebbe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/katrin-gebbe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** katrin-gebbe
- **IMDb ID:** nm3299248
- **TMDB ID:** 1170229
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15447457
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Gebbe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15447457, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3299248/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1170229

Director. Born 1 January 1983 in Ibbenbüren, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1983, Ibbenbüren, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Gebbe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15447457, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3299248/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1170229

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*A Thousand Blows*](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md) (80)

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## Biography

Katrin Gebbe is a German film director and screenwriter. She studied liberal arts and visual communication at the Academy of Visual Arts in Enschede, Netherlands, and completed postgraduate studies in directing at the Hamburg Media School.

Her feature debut *Nothing Bad Can Happen* (2013, also known as *Tore tanzt*) premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. She later directed *Pelican Blood* (2019) and a segment of the anthology *The Field Guide to Evil* (2018). Gebbe has directed episodes of the series *Tatort* (2016) and served as lead director on the Netflix series *The Empress* (2022). She directed three episodes of the second series of *A Thousand Blows* (2026).

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, katringebbe.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Thousand Blows* (2025), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *A Thousand Blows* (2025), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-thousand-blows.md)
- *Pelican Blood* (2020), Director, Writer
- *The Field Guide to Evil* (2019), Director
- *Nothing Bad Can Happen* (2013), Writer, Director
- *Narzissen* (2007), Director
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Director
- *Sores & Sîrîn*, Director
- *Einladung*, Director

## Gallery

- ![German film director and screenwriter Katrin Gebbe presenting her motion picture Tore tanzt at the Apollo-Kino Center Ibbenbüren in Ibbenbüren, Kreis Steinfurt,](https://film.one/media/person/47891/gallery-057cb6e4ba6d.jpg) German film director and screenwriter Katrin Gebbe presenting her motion picture Tore tanzt at the Apollo-Kino Center Ibbenbüren in Ibbenbüren, Kreis Steinfurt, — J.-H. Janßen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ibbenbueren_Katrin_Gebbe_01.jpg/1280px-Ibbenbueren_Katrin_Gebbe_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Katrin Gebbe](https://film.one/media/person/47891/gallery-5835523b3341.jpg) Katrin Gebbe — J.-H. Janßen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ibbenbueren_Katrin_Gebbe_02.jpg/1280px-Ibbenbueren_Katrin_Gebbe_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Bavarian Film Awards 2014: Bavarian Film Awards (won), for *Nothing Bad Can Happen*
- Montblanc Screenplay Award 2013: Montblanc Screenplay Award (won)
- Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2013: Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (won), for *Nothing Bad Can Happen*

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

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