Robert Thalheim (born July 2, 1974, in Berlin) is a German stage and film director and screenwriter.

He then studied modern German literature, history and politics at the Free University of Berlin until the year 2000; during this period he edited the first issues of the culture magazine Plotky.

Thalheim shot the film Pink Children (2012) together with 4 German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim.

[2] Robert Thalheim returned to the theatre in 2003, staging his own play, Wild Boys at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

The film was shot on location at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz, where Thalheim was a volunteer in 1996–97, and near the Auschwitz concentration camp.