„Dear Mr. Mangler. It has been a pleasure working with you. Your creative direction and vision are greatly inspiring and I hope to be working with you again in the future !“ (CURSE, 07/2006)
Christoph Mangler, born 1974 in Leutkirch (South Germany), is a director, photographer, editor and graphic designer. He studied "audiovisual media" at the HDM Stuttgart with focus on film, video, computeranimation and graphics and entered the music video business in 1997 as assistant director at DoRo Berlin. In 1999 the directing team TWODIRECTORS was established together with Mathias Vielsäcker, first represented by the berlin based film production BLOW FILM. Since this year Christoph, a.k.a. DerMangler, realised more than 50 music videos for German and international acts as director, for example: THE RASMUS, APOCALYPTICA, SUCH A SURGE, CALIBAN, MNEMIC, TAPE, EMIL BULLS, KEILERKOPF, 4LYN, SINCERE, KLEZ.E, FEHLFARBEN, ENIK, SURF, PAULA, BIZ MARKIE, CURSE, ASD, ITALO RENO & GERMANY, DJ STYLEWARZ, LAURA LOPEZ CASTRO, GERMANY, RENO, WERLE & STANKOWSKI and BONAPARTE.