Filmography (selection)
2024 Tatort - Vier Leben directed by Mark Monheim
starring Corinna Harfouch and Mark Waschke
2023 Rapunzel und die Rückkehr der Falken directed by Christoph Helmer
starring Anna-Lena Schwing, Luke Matt Röntgen, Tom Böttcher, Christina Große und Andrea Sawatzki
2022 Munich Games directed by Philipp Kadelbach (co-editor episodes 5 and 6)
starring Seyneb Saleh, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Doval'e Glickman, Sebastian Rudolph, Roger Azar, Anton Spieker and many more
2021 Das Boot (season 3) - episodes 1 to 3 , directed by Hans Steinbichler
starring Tom Wlaschiha, Franz Dinda, Ray Stevenson, Jo Hartley, Joana Ribeiro, Fritzi Haberlandt, Franz Hartwig
2020 Der Zürich Krimi - Borchert und der eisige Tod directed by Roland Suso Richter
starring Lena Stolze und Christian Kohlund
2020 Die Diplomatin - Tödliches Alibi directed by Roland Suso Richter
starring Natalia Wörner, Alexander Beyer, Andrea Osvárt and Stipe Erceg
2019 Das Boot (season 2) - episodes 6 and 8, directed by Rick Ostermann
starring Tom Wlaschiha, Fleur Geffrier, Rick Oron, Clemens Schick, Thierry Frémont, Vincent Kartheiser, Michael McElhatton, Ulrich Matthes
2018 Die Diplomatin - Böses Spiel directed by Roland Suso Richter
starring Natalia Wörner, Alexander Beyer, Maren Kroymann, Johannes Meister, Jeanne Tremsal and Jean-Yves Berteloot
2018 Tatort - Tiere der Großstadt directed by Roland Suso Richter
starring Meret Becker and Mark Waschke
2017 Die Diplomatin - Jagd durch Prag directed by Roland Suso Richter
starring Natalia Wörner, Jannik Schümann, Angus McGruther and Maren Kroymann
2016 Un profil pour deux written and directed by Stéphane Robelin
starring Pierre Richard, Fanny Valette and Yaniss Lespert
2016 Frat Pack directed by Michael Philip
starring Beverly D'Angelo, Kevin P. Farley, Robert Knepper, Danny Trejo ,Hana Mae Lee, J. Adam Brown, Brendan Michael Coughlin, Harvey Guillén, Richard Alan Reid, Rachel Risen, Elizabeth De Razzo
2015 Das Versprechen written and directed by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger (co-editor)
2015 Battle Drone written and directed by Mitch Gould
starring Louis Mandylor, Dominique Swain and Michael Paré
2013 Die Pilgerin directed by Philipp Kadelbach
starring Josephine Preuß, Volker Bruch, Stipe Erceg, Jacob Matschenz
2011 Errors of the human body written and directed by Eron Sheean
starring Michael Eklund and Karoline Herfurth
2010 Et si on vivait tous ensemble? written and directed by Stéphane Robelin
starring Jane Fonda, Géraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard, Guy Bedos, Claude Rich and Daniel Brühl
2007 Night Train written and directed by Brian King
starring Danny Glover, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski and Matthias Schweighöfer
2005 La Nature by Artavazd Pelechian
montage preparations@ZKM, Karlsruhe
2003 Wish you were here directed by Darryn Welch
starring Sam Page and Natassia Malthe
2002 Russian Ark written and directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
starring Sergey Dreyden
CV
Patrick Wilfert was born and raised in Mainz, Germany. He speaks German, French and English fluently and is a freelance film editor since 2002. He joined the European Film Academy in 2018.
Studying in France (Paris and Marseille), Patrick completed a master's degree with honors in audio-visual arts in 1997. Working on numerous student films, and with a strong interest in dramatic narrative, editing became his primary interest.
Repeatedly employed in his semester breaks, he got valuable insight as editorial office assistant at French-German television ZDF/arte (1994-98, departments "Theater und Musik/arte" and "Kleines Fernsehspiel/ZDF"). Mainly appointed as reader, his evaluations of program and coproduction submissions were highly appreciated.
In 1999, after an intense traineeship in digital postproduction, the Berlin-based and market leading music video company DoRo made him a permanent employee. Avid-editing and vfx-artwork became his second nature.
Freelancer since 2002, Patrick cut many commercials and hundreds of music videos for artists like A-ha, Anastacia, Bloodhound Gang, Beatsteaks, Deep Purple, Die Toten Hosen, Kim Wilde, Kreator, Mando Diao, Motörhead, Paul van Dyk, Rammstein, Scorpions, Tarja Turunen, The Rasmus, Tokio Hotel... Many of those productions show the years-long collaboration with directors Jörn Heitmann, Hinrich Pflug and Marcus Sternberg, and quite a number have been nominated and awarded - mainly at the "MTV-EuropeMusicAwards", the "Art Directors Club Germany" and German prize ceremonies "Echo" and "Comet".
Besides his enthusiasm for short formats and still being tasked as a reader, Patrick edited international feature films. In 2002, he edited the outstanding and highly awarded film "Russian Ark" by Aleksandr Sokurov, exploring the then novelty of HD footage. Patrick dynamically reframed and retimed the extraordinary 90minutes-one-take over its whole length, working closely with Aleksandr Sokurov over many weeks - both artistically and humanly an impressive experience.
As part of post graduate studies at the ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2005/6, Patrick took again part in an exceptional project: Artavazd Pelechian's La Nature, commissioned by the ZKM and La Fondation Cartier, Paris. He had the honor of working with this master of lyrical film and maybe the last great montage theorist. Following the artists very own way of preparing his work on audiovisual poems, Patrick helped him sort and classify many hours of footage for his first film in twenty-seven years.
His edit of "Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble?" (starring Jane Fonda, Géraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard, Guy Bedos, Claude Rich and Daniel Brühl) by french helmer Stéphane Robelin premiered as the closing ceremony event on Piazza Grande at Locarno Film Festival 2011. The film's worldwide theatrical release successfully kicked off in France in January 2012.
Major film-festivals around the world were screening "Errors of the human body", which Patrick edited in 2012 - a rewarded and critically acclaimed thriller-drama by author and director Eron Sheean, starring Michael Eklund and Karoline Herfurth. Canadian actor Michael Eklund won the Leo 2013 "Best Lead Performance" for his role as Dr. Geoff Burton in this international indie-production.
Since, he has been working on feature length films such as "Die Pilgerin", a 180 minutes primetime production for ZDF directed by Philipp Kadelbach, or the american full throttle action film "Battle Drone", written and directed by Mitch Gould.
Also Patrick co-edited the awarded documentary "The Promise" by Marcus Vetter, which premiered at the "Filmfest München 2016", screened at major festivals worldwide and had it's theatrical release in autumn 2016.
After the US-indie-comedy "Frat Pack" directed by Michael Philip, he edited the french-german coproduction "Un profil pour deux", written and directed by Stéphane Robelin and starring the fabulous Pierre Richard. This wonderful gallic comedy (german title "Monsieur Pierre geht online") premiered in spring 2017 in France and Germany, followed by a worldwide theatrical release.
More recently, Patrick edited several films of the political thriller film series "Die Diplomatin" ("Jagd durch Prag", "Böses Spiel", "Tödliches Alibi"), produced by UFA for ARD (first german TV station), and the episode "Tiere der Großstadt" of german cult crime film series "Tatort" - all primetime TV movies directed by Roland Suso Richter.
Lately, he has been working on the epic german WW2 series "Das Boot" produced by Bavaria Film for Sky, directed by Rick Ostermann (season 2) and Hans Steinbichler (season 3).
He continued his work with co-editing Munich Games, a Sky-series directed by Philipp Kadelbach, Rapunzel, a fairy tale movie for ZDF directed by Christoph Heimer or the episode Tatort - Vier Leben directed by Mark Monheim.