title: Matthias Kirste
text: # Matthias Kirste
  
  Matthias Kirste (born near Berlin), is a German cinematographer.
  
  Internationally, Kirste is mainly known for his work on the feature-films by Alexander Tuschinski. They met when they both studied at Hochschule der Medien. Since then, they often collaborated, and both share the cinematographer-credit, either of them taking turns at operating the camera depending on the scene.
  
  ## Life
  
  Kirste got his first film camera when he was 15 years old and did his first photographic and filmic projects as a teenager. After serving in a PsyOps unit of the German military for a number of years, he started working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer.
  
  ## Notable works
  
  * 2010: Menschenliebe
  * 2011: Mutant Calculator (short film)
  * 2012: Hollow Date (short film)
  * 2014: Break-Up
  * 2016: Timeless
  