Leander Hau�mann is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Hau�mann and costume designer Doris Hau�mann, he attended the Ernst Busch theatre school in Berlin. He was the theatre director of the city theatre in Bochum. He also wrote and acted in several plays, and had a role in the Detlev Buck film, M�nnerpension. His feature film breakthrough came with Sonnenallee in 1999. His second feature, Herr Lehmann, followed in 2003. His production of Die Fledermaus in Munich was controversial, compounding the trouble surrounding his production of Peter Pan. As a result, his scheduled production of Romeo and Juliet was cancelled. 

January 1st, 1959 in Quedlinburg (Age 65)