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Markus Goller was born June 29, 1969, in Munich. He started his career in the movie business in the early 1990s, mainly as an editor for short films, commercials, and documentary films. From 1996 on, he also edited feature films. In 2000, Goller was nominated for the German Editing Award for his work for Matthias Glasner’s film "Fandango". Since 1996, Goller also works as a film director. Besides numerous commercials for well-known companies such as McDonald’s, Ferrero, and Coca Cola, he directed his first feature film, the ostentatiously trashy movie "Planet B: Mask Under Mask", in 2001.
In 2002, Goller relocated to the USA where he mainly worked as an editor and director for commercials. Furthermore, he co-directed "Iron Jawed Angels" and "Blood or Chocolate", two films that German director Katja von Garnier made in Hollywood.
After a planning phase of several years, Goller’s second film as a director opened in movie theatres in January 2010: "Friendship!" tells the story of two young men from the GDR and their adventures in the USA.
Goller's next film "Eine ganz heiße Nummer" ("Hot Line") centred around the friendship between three women: Gisela Schneeberger, Bettina Mittendorfer and Rosalie Thomass play the proprietors of a grocery store in rural Bavaria, who want to increase their profits by opening a phone sex service. With over 1,2 million admissions, the comedy turned out to be a box office hit.
In 2013, Goller presented the road movie "Frau Ella", which starred Ruth Maria Kubitschek in her first screen role in ten years: Opposite August Diehl and Matthias Schweighöfer, she played an 87-year-old woman who goes on an eventful trip to Paris with two young men.
In December 2014, Goller’s romantic comedy "Alles ist Liebe" about a number of very different people that find themselves in various amorous entanglements was released in German cinemas. His road movie "Simpel" ("My Brother Simple") about two brothers, one mentally impaired, setting out on a trip through Germany to find their father, was released in autumn 2017. At the Bayerischer Filmpreis 2017, the two lead actors David Kross and Frederick Lau won Best Actor.
Goller's next film "25 km/h" (2018) also focused on two brothers: After the death of their father two entirely different brothers go on a road trip through Germany on their old mopeds. The lead actors Bjarne Mädel and Lars Eidinger received several awards for their roles. At the German Film Awards 2019, "25 km/h" was nominated for Best Feature Film.
Together with Lennart Ruff, Goller directed the streaming series "Wild Republic" (2021), about a group of juvenile offenders who are suddenly left to their own devices during a resocialization program in the mountains. His next feature film, "One for The Road," was about a bon vivant (Frederick Lau) who gradually admits to having a drinking problem. Already filmed in mid-2021 and announced for September 2022, the film's release was postponed to October 2023.
Markus Goller is married to director Katja von Garnier and lives in Hollywood and Berlin.