Alfred Behrens
Alfred Behrens (born June 30, 1944 in Hamburg-Altona ) is a German writer and director , radio play and screenwriter .
Life
After training as a publishing clerk at the publishing house Axel Springer Hamburg , Behrens studied at the Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising in Berlin, he worked as a program assistant for the German program ( German Service ) of the BBC London . Behrens has worked as a journalist, translator, author, dramaturge and director since 1968. He published poetry and the JG Ballard- influenced social science fiction prose Society ID and Artificial Suns . The prophetic football television league appeared in 1974. Behrens works in the radio play, documentary, television play and feature film format. Since 1986 he has also been teaching - especially in the field of screenplay / dramaturgy - at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Behrens received major awards, the German Film Award for "Berlin metropolitan railway pictures," the German Screenplay Award for "Not a word of love," the Radio Play Prize of War Blind for "The Big identification game", the Frankfurt Radio Play Prize , the Radio Play Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts , the Premios Ondas for the radio play “Stealth Fighter” and in 2007 the Günter Eich Prize , for a life's work that has constantly expanded the genre of radio play with plenty of ideas.
Alfred Behrens has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1974 .
Awards
- 1974: Radio play award of the war blind
- 1979: Honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize for Family Cinema: Her Highness with Prinzess Sieglinde
- 1983: Honored recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize for Teufelsmoor , together with Michael Kuball
- 1987: Radio play award from the Academy of Arts
- 1994: Premios Ondas
- 1995: German Screenplay Award
- 2007: Günter Eich Prize
Works
- 1971: Company ID. SocialScienceFiction , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main
- 1973: Artificial suns. Images from the reality production , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main
- 1973: The great identification game . Radio play with Christian Brückner , Wolfgang Hess , Leo Bardischewski , Hellmut Lange a . a. Composition: Klaus Schulze, Director: Alfred Behrens. Bavarian Radio 1973.
- 1974: The television league. Match reports from the football business of the future , Rotbuch, Berlin
- 1984: The betel nut in your head . Radio play, Hessischer / Norddeutscher / Süddeutscher Rundfunk . Composition Heiner Goebbels . With Peter Fitz , Otto Sander , Jutta Lampe .
literature
- Götz Schmedes: Media text radio play. Approaches to radio play semiotics using the example of Alfred Behrens' radio work. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2002. ISBN 3830910622
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Behrens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfred Behrens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Radio plays by Alfred Behrens in the HörDat
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutschlandfunk.de: On the occasion of Alfred Behrens' 70th birthday . Deutschlandfunk , July 1, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behrens, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and director, radio play and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Altona |