Fred Breinersdorfer

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Fred Breinersdorfer (2017)

Alfred "Fred" W. Breinersdorfer (born December 6, 1946 in Mannheim ) is a German screenwriter , film producer and lawyer .

Life

Fred Breinersdorfer was born in 1946 in Mannheim, in Mainz his Abitur stored and at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Law and Sociology studied and was in constitutional law doctorate . He has two children, the lawyer and screenwriter Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer and the architect Julian Breinersdorfer. He is the cousin of the conductor Peter Schneider . Breinersdorfer is married to the author Katja Röder and lives in Berlin.

He practiced as a lawyer in Stuttgart for 17 years , specializing in university law, especially numerus clausus litigation. In 1986 he founded Factor Verlag Stuttgart, which was transferred to Delphi-Medien GmbH in 1992, which deals with rights management and film production and is now based in Stuttgart and Berlin . For many years he taught media and copyright law at various universities and was appointed honorary professor in Baden-Württemberg in 1994. After a guest appearance in politics (1994 candidacy for the Bundestag in Stuttgart for the SPD ), Breinersdorfer devoted himself to writing, mainly screenwriting. Almost 80 full-length feature films have been shot based on his scripts. There are also numerous detective novels, plays and radio plays. Since 2004 he has also worked as a producer and director . On April 28, 2012, the Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg awarded Fred Breinersdorfer the " Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg for Outstanding Services" at a ceremony in Ludwigsburg Palace. In 2014 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . In June 2015 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival alongside Jacqueline Bisset , of which Jean-Jacques Annaud was President . In 2016 Breinersdorfer ended his film trilogy about Nazi victims with “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The magazine Cicero quoted the author: “The pacifist ethos of Sophie Scholl , the radical combative energy of the lonely Georg Elser and the pure innocence of Anne Frank - this basically outlines all possibilities of being good human in barbaric times. Beyond that yawns the abyss of lies, betrayal, and opportunism. ”Breinersdorfer's greatest success to date has been the Oscar nomination for the film Sophie Scholl - The Last Days , which he co-produced and written .

Lawyer

On December 1, 1972, Breinersdorfer passed the first state examination in law at the University of Tübingen . This was followed by a one-year doctoral scholarship and clerkship in Tübingen and Stuttgart. He was admitted to the bar in Stuttgart on July 2, 1976 and received his doctorate on February 14, 1977 with his dissertation Equality of Educational Opportunities and State Educational Funding in Germany from the Law Faculty of the University of Tübingen. Immediately after being admitted to the bar, he specialized in university law and developed the then new area of law of university admission ( numerus clausus ) with colleagues in fundamental litigation through scientific publications and non-fiction books . According to his own statements, he helped over 2,500 applicants, mostly in medical subjects, to a place at university by means of a court decision. Immediately after the decision of the Federal Court of Justice of September 18, 1989, with the approval of supra-local law firms, Breinersdorfer formed one of the first supra-local law associations with the lawyers Rober Brehm in Frankfurt and Wolfgang Zimmerling in Saarbrücken, who also specialize in university admissions. On September 30, 1994, he left the law firm to devote himself full-time to writing. Breinersdorfer retains his admission to the bar to this day. His main focus today is media and copyright law.

author

In 1980 his first Abel thriller was published by Rowohlt : You don't kill rich customers . His legal experience was not only beneficial in choosing the title. More thrillers, novels, short stories and dramatic works followed. He made his debut as a screenwriter with a crime scene classic: Two Kinds of Blood - a film in which Schimanski is laid naked on the kick-off circle at the Wedau Stadium. Co-author was Felix Huby , directed by Hajo Gies . Numerous feature films followed, mostly - but not exclusively - crime novels. In 1986 ZDF started a loose series of feature films with Breinersdorfer's lawyer Abel with Günther Maria Halmer in the title role. In this way, 20 episodes were created up to the year 2000. Furthermore, more than 20 Tatort productions have now come from his pen. 2005/06 he designed with his daughter, the new crime scene - Format of the Saarland Radio. The books for the first two films are also by him and Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer .

In 2013, the play Hilde Knef - The Devil and the Diva , which Breinersdorfer wrote together with Katja Röder , was played on Kurfürstendamm in Hamburg and Berlin . The main role was played by Judy Winter . In December 2013 he started a literary experiment with the political thriller BERLIN.classified about the darker side of politics in Berlin, one only in the Internet available novel series, modeled closely on the American drama TV series. Since 2008 Breinersdorfer has been developing the movie Elser - He would have changed the world again with his daughter Léonie-Claire . The film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel , received the producer's award at the Bavarian Film Award even before its premiere, out of competition in the competition at the 65th Berlinale . The screenplay for the film (English title "13 Minutes") was included in the inventory of the Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles in 2017 , which has been collecting and exhibiting important documents from the history of film for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1928 . His project to write a movie about Anne Frank's diary sparked a public controversy at the beginning of 2014 because ZDF was planning a two-parter at the same time - without having the filming rights, unlike Breinersdorfer's producers. The shooting of The Diary of Anne Frank , directed by Hans Steinbichler, took place in early 2015; the film premiered on February 16, 2016 at the Berlinale and was released in cinemas on March 3, 2016.

Breinersdorfer's scripts were staged by directors such as Peter Schulze-Rohr , Roland Suso Richter , Nico Hofmann , Marc Rothemund , Christian Görlitz , Michael Verhoeven , Rolf Schübel , Oliver Hirschbiegel , Urs Egger and others; actors such as Bruno Ganz , Iris Berben , Gert Voss , Dieter Pfaff , Suzanne von Borsody , Jürgen Hentsch , Christian Redl , Uwe Ochsenknecht , Eva Mattes , Alexander Held , Julia Jentsch , Hannelore Elsner , Hannah Herzsprung , Burghart Klaußner , Christian Friedel , Katharina Schüttler , Ulrich Noethen , Martina Gedeck , Heino Ferch and many others. He made his debut as a cinema author in 2005 with Sophie Scholl - The Last Days . The film was nominated on January 31, 2006 for an " Oscar " in the category "Best Foreign Language Film". The 2017 TV film A child is wanted with Heino Ferch, Silke Bodenbender , Johann von Bülow and others. a. in the lead roles with Katja Röder as co-author celebrated its premiere on September 22, 2017 as part of the Tatort Eifel festival and was broadcast in advance by ARTE on December 15, 2018 . It achieved a surprising audience success in Germany with a market share of almost 6% and 1,814,000 viewers. In France there were 1,259,000 viewers for “Un enfant disparaît”, which corresponds to a market share of 5.1%. In both countries that was the best value on the program place this year and in Germany on the "eternal list" in second place.

producer

Breinersdorfer justifies his entry into film production with the fact that, as a producing author, he can oversee his films longer and more intensively. It is based on American models of writing producers such as Vince Gilligan . He does not only concentrate on the creative aspects of the films, but also on financing and marketing. In 2004, Breinersdorfer founded the production company Broth Film with director Marc Rothemund to bring out the feature film Sophie Scholl - The Last Days in coproduction with the Munich Goldkind Film . After the premiere in the competition at the 55th Berlinale 2005, the film was released on February 22nd of the same year. The producers and their team received numerous nominations and awards for the work. In addition to his short films Sommersonntag and As Time Goes Bye, made with Siggi Kamml, Breinersdorfer produced and co-produced various cinema and television films, including Hilde with Heike Makatsch (director Kai Wessel ), who premiered at the 59th Berlinale , The man who jumped over cars and the TV film The Prodigal Son , for which he was awarded the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize. At the 65th Berlinale , his latest film, Elser - He would have changed the world , which he produced with Munich producers Oliver Schündler and Boris Ausserer , had its world premiere.

Director

In 2007 Breinesdorfer made directing debut with the short film Sommersonntag together with Sigi Kamml, in the leading role Axel Prahl . Even before its premiere, Sommersonntag was awarded the short film prize of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation and invited to the official competitions by numerous international festivals. The German film funding agency named it the most successful short film of 2008. Also in 2007 he filmed the novel Eden Plaza by Dagmar Leupold under the title Between Today and Tomorrow with Peter Lohmeyer and Gesine Cukrowski for the cinema. His documentary Andula - A Visit to Another Life with Hannah Herzsprung , which deals with the cruel fate of the Czech actress Anna Letenská during the Nazi era, was released in cinemas in autumn 2009.

publisher

Because no publisher wanted to print Breinersdorfer's manuscript Der Hammermörder , he decided in 1986 to set up a publishing house ( Factor: Verlag: Stuttgart ), initially as a self-publisher , to bring out the novel. After Der Spiegel reported in detail about the case and the novel, the book was a success and was later made into a film. On this basis, Breinersdorfer established the publishing house as a regional company with at times more than 30 permanent and freelance employees. Breinersdorfer did not concentrate the editorial line of the publisher on crime novels, but on regional advice, for example Stuttgart conditions or Stuttgart art and culture . In order to concentrate on his profession as an author, Breinersdorfer stopped his publishing activities in 1994. Today the company is based in Stuttgart and Berlin under the name Delphi Medien GmbH as a film production and rights administrator.

Political activities

Breinersdorfer has been a member of the SPD since 1973 , but was never active in the party except in 1994. He is committed to the rights of creative people mostly outside the SPD. In 1986 he founded the crime authors' association " Das Syndikat ". In 1994 he ran for the Bundestag in the Stuttgart-Süd constituency for the SPD. From 1997 to 2005 he was federal chairman of the VS ( Association of German Writers in ver.di ), is a member of the PEN Center Germany , various academies ( German Film Academy and Academy of Performing Arts) and, since 1995, a member of the administrative board of the VG as a representative of the authors Word . For 2003 he was appointed to the jury for “ Unwort des Jahres ”. In the spring of 2011 he founded the Filmmakers in Prison project at the German Film Academy in collaboration with Amnesty International , with the aim of supporting persecuted filmmakers. As a member of the jury Unwort des Jahres 2003, Breinersdorfer campaigned for the term perpetrator people to be chosen. This was done on the grounds that: “The word perpetrator people is fundamentally reprehensible, as it makes a whole people responsible for the deeds of a group.” But if the term is applied to the Jews, then it is “a current evidence of anti-Semitism that is still in effect ".

He has been campaigning for years to improve copyright law and in 2012 was one of the 51 signatories of the open letter from 51 Tatort authors to the pirate party , Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . In order to stimulate the discussion about a new copyright law after the federal election in 2013, Breinersdorfer published a guest article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on October 14, 2013, calling for a compulsory license for films on the Internet. For his commitment to the rights of creative people, Fred Breinersdorfer was awarded the German Actor Award 2015 for inspiration.

In connection with the history of the reception of the resistance in post-war Germany, especially in the case of Georg Elser, Breinersdorfer called on the state government of Baden-Württemberg to erect a memorial for resistance and moral courage , and not just around the resistance fighters Georg Elser , the Scholl siblings and from the country Schenk to commemorate Graf von Stauffenberg , but to encourage civil courage. The state government rejected the request.

Works

Plays

  • The night before , first performance April 16, 1993, Staatstheater Braunschweig
  • Der Hammermörder , world premiere October 6, 1993, Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen
  • with Betty Hensel: Sophie Scholl, the last days , world premiere February 22, 2008, Schauspielhaus Salzburg
  • with Charlie Perham: Sophie Scholl , world premiere October 16, 2012, ADC Theater Cambridge
  • with Katja Röder : The Devil and the Diva , world premiere March 7, 2013, Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg; Summer 2013 Theater am Kurfürstendamm
  • with Christian Arin: Sophie Scholl , Teateri Jönjöping, Swedish version, world premiere September 26, 2014
  • with Betty Hensel: Sophie Scholl, The Final Days , Medicine Show Theater, New York City, August 2019

Radio plays

  • 1993: If Wagner pays , SDR
  • 1993: Big City in Danger , series, SDR, Radio Bremen
  • 2012: Radio Tatort, Deadly Art , SWR, - Co-author: Katja Röder , Director: Walter Adler
  • 2013: Radio Tatort, Der Schläfer (radio play), SWR 2, - co-author: Katja Röder, director: Walter Adler
  • 2013: Radio Tatort, Anatomy of Death (radio play), SWR 2, - co-author: Katja Röder, director: Walter Adler
  • 2015: Elser , directed by Iris Drögekamp , 2015, SWR / NDR

Fonts

  • Equality of educational opportunities and state funding for education in Germany. Dissertation. Tuebingen 1977.
  • with E. Hohmann, H. Börger: In terms of numerus clausus - ways to the desired course. dva, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Paper tiger numerus clausus. Ullstein, Berlin 1979.
  • (Ed. And co-author): Numerus clausus manual. Study publisher Hayit, Cologne 1984.
  • Exchange of study places and change of university location. Factor, Stuttgart 1988.
  • with R. Brehm, W. Zimmerling: Klagen und Studieren. Dreisam, Freiburg 1991.
  • (Ed. And co-author): Selection interviews for medical students. Factor, Stuttgart 1988. (4th edition: Selection interviews for students. Stuttgart 1993).
  • (Ed.): Sophie Scholl - the last days. Documents related to the film. Edition ARTE. S. Fischer, 1980, ISBN 3-596-16609-8 .

Novels / short stories

Filmography (selection)

Scripts

Director

  • 2008: Short film, Summer Sunday - Directors: Fred Breinersdorfer and Sigi Kamml
  • 2008: Feature film, Between Today and Tomorrow - Director: Fred Breinersdorfer
  • 2009: Documentary, Andula - A Visit to Another Life - Director: Fred Breinersdorfer and Anne Worst

Awards

literature

  • Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer: murder of the most beautiful ass in the world . In: Context: weekly newspaper , issue 207 v. March 18, 2015
  • Fred Breinersdorfer: The southwest needs a memorial for moral courage . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 7th, 2015 edition
  • Fred Breinersdorfer - screenwriter and lawyer . In: SWR1 people , broadcast on February 24, 2016
  • Ingo Langner: CICERO Salon: "Only cowardice is neutral" . In: Cicero , March 2016 edition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Breinersdorfer. (No longer available online.) Julianbreinersdorfer.com, archived from the original on April 24, 2018 ; accessed on April 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / julianbreinersdorfer.com
  2. ^ Gabriele Renz: Order of Merit for Sven Hannawald and Bülent Ceylan . On April 27, 2012 on suedkurier.de, accessed on May 7, 2018 ( Paywall )
  3. ↑ Cicero, 3/2016, p. 124
  4. ↑ Sonja Álvarez, Joachim Huber: Who Owns Anne Frank? . On January 14, 2014 from tagesspiegel.de , accessed on May 7, 2018
  5. ^ Open letter from 51 Tatort authors ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). On March 29, 2012 on Drehbuchautoren.de
  6. ↑ Fred Breinersdorfer: Give away my films! . On October 24, 2013 at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on May 7, 2018

Remarks

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personal data
SURNAME Breinersdorfer, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breinersdorfer, Alfred W .; Breinersdorfer, Fred W. (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, film producer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Germany