{{short description|German screenwriter and film director}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|6|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Claus Drexel''' (born 24 June 1968) is a German screenwriter and film director. He has worked in France.
His first film, ''Affaire de famille'', a comedy with Miou-Miou, André Dussollier and Hande Kodja, was released in 2008.{{r|marie}}
In 2012 he designed a performance of the St Matthew Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris.{{r|mich}}
Drexel's film ''Au Bord Du Monde'' ("on the edge of the world"), about homeless people in Paris, was made in 2012.{{r|john|page=257}}
== Films ==
* 2008 : ''Affaire de famille'' * 2012 : ''Au bord du monde'' * 2018 : ''America'' * 2020 : ''Sous les étoiles de Paris''
== References ==
https://variety.com/2020/film/global/claus-drexel-on-under-the-stars-of-paris-and-prostitution-documentary-the-amazons-1203473389/
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<ref name=john>John Rennie Short (2014). [https://books.google.com/books?id=FZy7BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA257 ''Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment'']. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. {{ISBN|9781137382665}}.</ref>
<ref name=marie>Marie-Noëlle Tranchant (03 June 2008). [http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2008/06/03/03002-20080603ARTFIG00528-miou-miou-rajeunir-quelle-horreur-.php Miou-Miou: 'Rajeunir, quelle horreur!'] (in French). ''Le Figaro''. Accessed February 2017.</ref>
<ref name=mich>Michèle Valmont (2 April 2012). [http://www.lesauvage.org/2012/04/grandiose-passion-selon-saint-matthieu/ Grandiose Passion selon Saint Matthieu] (in French). ''Le Sauvage''. Accessed February 2017.</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Drexel, Claus}} Category:French film directors Category:Living people Category:French screenwriters Category:1968 births