Der Gründer (The Founder) is a 2012 German satirical trash comedy film and the directorial debut of Eric Dean Hordes.

One night, the porn producer Gerhard Hornbacher discovers Torok, an alien from the planet Antoria, on his roof, who has landed there with his flying saucer.

The founder takes the end of the world prophesied by the Mayan calendar in 2012 as an opportunity to grant 144,000 people refuge on the planet Antoria for a fee.

It used to be called Kanal Telemedial.”[8] Under the title “The King of TikTok”, WDR produced an eight-part podcast series about Thomas G. Hornauer with the support of SWR.

In the fourth and fifth episodes of this series, an interview with Eric Hordes explains how Hornauer inspired him to make the founder film.

Hornauer made several negative comments about the film project during his live broadcasts; he suspected that his telemedia idea was being mocked.

[10] The Stuttgart Regional Court granted Hornauer the right to watch the film twice within two weeks before its cinema premiere and to object to passages that violated his personal honor.

[15] In it, a German-speaking hermit (Johannes Sisko), who calls himself “The Founder,” prophesies a holy salvation for several thousand earthlings through a light ship from space.