Tom Zickler is dead - film producer dies at the age of 55 years

Tom Zickler has been responsible for some of the most successful German theatrical productions of the past 30 years, including "No-ear Bunny", "Two-eared Chick", "Kokowäh" and "Honey in the Head".

His film career began Tom Zickler at the Defa, then studied from 1988 to 1994 at the HFF Babelsberg. In 1994 he started a close collaboration with Til Schweiger, from which films such as "Knockin 'on Heaven's Door" or "Barefoot" emerged.

In August 2016, he left as Managing Director of Barefoot Films, the joint production company with Schweiger. The following year, together with Studio Babelsberg, Zickler founded the production company Traumfabrik Babelsberg with the aim of increasingly developing and producing German cinema films in Babelsberg. The first own production was "Traumfabrik" (2019, read a review here).

Tom Zickler had died on Monday after a short illness, said the studio Babelsberg AG on Tuesday. He was 55 years old. "We are stunned, dismayed and deeply sad," said Christoph Fisser, CEO of Studio Babelsberg AG. "The German film scene is losing one of the biggest film producers and the most passionate storyteller who knew how to impress viewers like no other."