After high school Dirk Regel was trained as film editor and assistant director.
1 and ARD) and Austrian TV (e.g. the film Wiener Blut for ORF eins).
Dirk Regel also made romance films (e.g. Wiedersehen in Verona (Reunion in Verona)), hospital stories (e.g. for the series St. Angela) and family films (e.g. Hilfe, meine Schwester kommt!
He made a film adaptation of a tale of Grimm with Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (The Musicians of Bremen).
In 2002, he received the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (best series) for Edel & Starck (Sat.1, Directors: Dirk Regel, Ulrich Zrenner, Dennis Satin, Jakob Schäuffelen, Matthias Kopp).