Rolf Thissen was born on June 3, 1948 in Aachen. North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Das Experiment (2001), On the Road Again (1969) and Wunderbare Visionen auf dem Weg zur Hölle - Das Kino und die Kämpfe des Martin Scorsese (1989). He died on November 18, 2014.