---
name: "Uli Hanisch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/uli-hanisch"
fi1m_id: "uli-hanisch"
imdb_id: "nm0359914"
tmdb_id: 11604
wikidata_id: "Q2474964"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T19:58:51.011425+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."
---

# Uli Hanisch

## Identity

Uli Hanisch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/uli-hanisch
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** uli-hanisch
- **IMDb ID:** nm0359914
- **TMDB ID:** 11604
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2474964
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2474964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359914/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11604

Production designer. Born 1 January 1967 in Nuremberg, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1967, Nuremberg, Germany
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 68 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $337m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2474964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359914/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11604

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Babylon Berlin*](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*The Queen's Gambit*](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Uli Hanisch is a German production designer. Born in Nuremberg in 1967, he studied graphic arts in Düsseldorf and began working in film in the late 1980s.

He has collaborated extensively with director Tom Tykwer since 1996 on films including *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* (2006), *The International* (2009) and *Cloud Atlas* (2012). His other credits include the series *Babylon Berlin* (2017–2022) and *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award. He served as production designer on *The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes* (2023).

Hanisch is professor of production design at the International Film School Cologne since 2018 and lives in Berlin.

*Sources: ulihanisch.net, imdb.com, crew-united.com, deutsche-kinemathek.de.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes* (2023), Fi1m 61, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes.md)
- *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), Fi1m 74, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md)
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes* (2023), Production Design — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes.md)
- *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), series, Production Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md)
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter* (2017), Production Design
- *A Hologram for the King* (2016), Production Design
- *In Secret* (2014), Production Design
- *Cloud Atlas* (2012), Production Design
- *Hotel Lux* (2011), Production Design
- *Season of the Witch* (2011), Production Design
- *Three* (2010), Production Design
- *The International* (2009), Production Design
- *A Woman in Berlin* (2008), Production Design
- *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer* (2006), Production Design
- *Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm* (2004), as Tänzer auf der blauen Kartoffel · Production Design
- *Operation Valkyrie* (2004), Production Design
- *Bookies* (2003), Production Design
- *Boat Trip* (2002), as Art Direction
- *Heaven* (2002), Production Design
- *The Experiment* (2001), as Art Direction
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), Production Design
- *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Winter Sleepers* (1997), as Art Direction
- *Praxis Dr. Hasenbein* (1997), Production Design
- *00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter* (1994), Production Design
- *Decadence* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Terror 2000* (1993), Writer
- *The German Chainsaw Massacre* (1990), Set Designer, Title Designer
- *100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker* (1989), Production Design
- *Mother's Mask* (1988), Actor
- *Egomania: Island Without Hope* (1987), Graphic Designer

## Gallery

- ![Uli Hanisch](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-d979307b313d.jpg) Uli Hanisch — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Uli_Hanisch%2C_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018 - Uli Hanisch und Pierre-Yves Gayraud (beste Ausstattung)](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-71b0cc977751.jpg) Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2018 - Uli Hanisch und Pierre-Yves Gayraud (beste Ausstattung) — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7178.jpg/1280px-2018-01-26-DFP_2018-7178.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexander Berner, Johnny Klimek, Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Liv Lisa Fries, Uli Hanisch, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten, Antje Zynga, Peter Kurth (Babylon Berlin (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-fb735802670b.jpg) Alexander Berner, Johnny Klimek, Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Liv Lisa Fries, Uli Hanisch, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten, Antje Zynga, Peter Kurth (Babylon Berlin (2018) — 9EkieraM1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/AV0A3104_Alexander_Berner%2C_Johnny_Klimek%2C_Pierre-Yves_Gayraud%2C_Liv_Lisa_Fries%2C_Uli_Hanisch%2C_Achim_von_Borries%2C_Henk_Handloegten%2C_Antje_Zynga%2C_Peter_Kurth_%28Babylon_Berlin%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-ca5bb2bdffab.jpg) Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019) — Tone Jelsness / Nordiske Mediedager, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678428%29.jpg/1280px-Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678428%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-fc09eeb1cfce.jpg) Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019) — Tone Jelsness / Nordiske Mediedager, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678698%29.jpg/1280px-Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678698%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/15446/gallery-1e7b0cb20b08.jpg) Bakom Babylon Berlin: Dobbeltime Med: Uli Hanisch & Achim von Borries, Asbjørn Slettemark (2019) — Tone Jelsness / Nordiske Mediedager, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678768%29.jpg/1280px-Nordiske_Mediedager_2019_%2833934678768%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Ruhrpreis for Arts and Science 2011: Ruhrpreis for Arts and Science (won)
- European Film Academy Prix d'Excellence 2007: European Film Academy Prix d'Excellence (won), for *Perfume: The Story of a Murderer*

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

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