Norbert Lechner was born in Munich in 1961. He is a director, scriptwriter and film producer, his main field of activity is films for children and young people. He became known through his Bavarian children's film "Toni Goldwascher" (2007), which received numerous awards. At the Festival Cine La Nueva Mirada in Buenos Aires, for example, he was awarded the "Golden Kite Award" for best youth film. In 2011 he shot the children's crime thriller "Tom und Hacke", based on Mark Twain, which was awarded for the best screenplay at the "Golden Sparrow" festival in Gera. At the latest with "Duck gut! - Mädchen allein zu Haus" (2016), created as part of the "Der besondere Kinderfilm" project, Lechner advanced to become one of the most important German-speaking children's film directors, who knows how to tell stories with remarkable ease, making even sad or dramatic subjects entertaining, but never trivialising them.