Robert Thalheim (born July 2, 1974, in Berlin) is a German stage and film director and screenwriter. Thalheim was an assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble in 1997–98. He then studied modern German literature, history and politics at the Free University of Berlin until the year 2000; during this period he edited the first issues of the culture magazine Plotky. In 2000 he began to study film directing at the Filmhochschule (film school) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His teacher there was Rosa von Praunheim, who monitored his work on his first films. Thalheim shot the film Pink Children (2012) together with 4 German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim.