BIOGRAPHY

Wolfgang Purkhauser is a film editor from Germany.

After founding the production company “Clix GmbH” in 2010 and working with it on various short and commercial formats as a producer, director and editor, he started studying editing at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2017.

2019 his first feature length documentary film SOMMERKRIEG (SUMMERWAR) about two kids attending a ukrainian summercamp won multiple awards and was screened at HOT DOCS, IDFA, Max Ophüls Preis and Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis.

PORNFLUENCER, a portrait about a young couple who made a fortune as a “Verified Couple” on porn websites, was part of DOK.fest München and Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis. A German wide cinema release was realized by the distributer Salzgeber in 2022. Wolfgang is editor and co-writer of Pornfluencer.

Wolfgang got a scholarship of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and participated in a masterclass at UCLA Extension in Los Angeles in August 2023.

In 2025, Wolfgang graduated from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg with a diploma.
His first narrative feature film BABYSTAR — a ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel (directed by Joscha Bongard, produced by LiseLotte Films), which he co-edited with Emma Holzapfel — celebrated its festival premiere at Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF 50, was screened and awarded at various festivals around the world and will be in german cinemas in April 2026. Emma and Wolfgang have been nominated at Deutscher Kamerapreis 2026 for “Best Editing”.

1990 Born in Vienna

2010 - 2017 Clix GmbH (Producer, Director, Editor)

2017 - 2025 Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (studying editing)

2020 - today working as a film editor