Hans Sebastian Steinbichler (born 1 November 1966[1]) is a German film director and screenwriter.
The leading actress Johanna Wokalek won the Bavarian Film Award.
In 2007, Steinbichlers film Winter Journey got several nominations for the Deutscher Filmpreis and Die zweite Frau was awarded with the Grimme-Preis.
From January 2013 to December 2014, Steinbichler worked as a professor for directing in cinema, TV and new media at the Internationale Filmschule Köln.
In 2015, he was the director of Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, a film about the Holocaust victim Anne Frank and her diary.