BIOGRAPHY

Wolfgang Purkhauser is a film editor from Germany.

After founding the production company “Clix GmbH” 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 of 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 2022 and Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis 2023. 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.

His documentary film HINTER DEN FARBEN (BEHIND THE COLORS) is currently being released in cinemas, while he is editing several fictional and documentary formats in both student and commercial contexts.

In 2025, Wolfgang graduated from the 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 — will celebrate its festival premiere this year.

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