Annette Hess

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Annette Hess 2015
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Annette Hess (born January 18, 1967 in Hanover ) is a German writer and screenwriter .

Live and act

Annette Hess studied drama writing at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1994 to 1998 with playwrights and authors such as Tankred Dorst , Gerlind Reinshagen , Christoph Hein and David Spencer, among others . Achim von Borries later used her thesis, the screenplay What is the use of love in thoughts , which she wrote together with Alexander Pfeuffer, as a template for his film of the same name with Daniel Brühl , August Diehl and Anna Maria Mühe .

This was followed by activities as a freelance journalist, program and assistant director at ARD television and as a script editor for production companies and broadcasters.

Annette Hess has been working exclusively as a screenwriter since 2001. She wrote numerous scripts for television series and television films, such as for the highly regarded, multiple award-winning ARD two-parter Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie with Veronica Ferres (director: Miguel Alexandre ), for In Liebe ein Eins with Anna Loos (director: Hartmut Griesmayr ) and for Die Holzbaronin with Henriette Confurius (director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller ), which received several awards as the TV film with the highest ratings in 2014.

Hess is the creator of the ARD series Weissensee ; in spring 2007 she developed the concept as a kind of “Dallas in the GDR”. She won Regina Ziegler as producer, who received the production order for the first season from the MDR . This had its television premiere in September 2010 (Director: Friedemann Fromm ). The second season aired in September 2013. For her script work on Weissensee , Annette Hess received, among other things, the Authors 'Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation in 2011. The jury honored "an outstanding literary achievement whose incorruptible artistic claim proves the compatibility of quality and popularity on television".

In 2015 UFA produced the ZDF three-part Ku'damm 56 based on the idea and scripts by Hess, who also acted as creative producer during the production. The multi-part television film tells of young women in the 1950s, their rebellion against the staid, fixed image of women and their struggle for a self-determined, female identity. Directed by Sven Bohse . Among others, Sonja Gerhardt , Claudia Michelsen , Maria Ehrich and Emilia Schüle played . In March 2018, the sequel was broadcast on ZDF with Ku'damm 59 . The three-part series achieved high ratings and also became the film with the highest number of views since the ZDF media library was founded.

In July 2018 it became known that Annette Hess was developing the autobiographical novel " Christiane F. - We children from Bahnhof Zoo " as an eight-part series based on her own idea . To this end, she works for the first time as a head author with a writers room. The series is produced by Oliver Berben ( Constantin Television ).

Along with Kristin Derfler, Volker A. Zahn and Orkun Ertener, Annette Hess is one of the founding members of the scriptwriting initiative Kontrakt 18 , a voluntary commitment signed by more than 190 scriptwriters , which is intended to give authors more creative control and a say in the process of film production.

On September 21, 2018, Hess' debut novel "Deutsches Haus" was published by Ullstein-Verlag . The novel is about a young woman who is used as an interpreter at the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt and who is confronted with her family's past in the course of the negotiations. Even before it was published, the novel was sold in 15 countries. a. to the USA, Spain, France, Hungary, Israel and Sweden.

Since 2019, Annette Hess can be seen together with Annie Hoffmann , Ralf Husmann and Kurt Krömer in the monthly talk show about Seriös - Das Serienquartett . The program is broadcast on ONE .

Works

Filmography

novel

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annette Hess at filmreporter.de, accessed on December 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Third season Weissensee runs on three evenings in autumn. July 28, 2015, accessed July 28, 2015 .
  3. ^ Prize of the authors' foundation for Annette Hess. March 8, 2011, accessed July 28, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Start of shooting for ZDF three-parter Ku'damm 56. July 29, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015 .
  5. ↑ "Ku'damm 59" sets a new record in the ZDFmediathek. , March 4, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ "We children from Bahnhof Zoo": Christiane F.'s fate will be remade as a series. , July 30, 2017, accessed September 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Series authors are today's novelists" June 9, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ Annette Hess. 'Sometimes authors are just too nice.' , January 26, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ The conversation. Guest: Annette Hess. July 18, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018
  10. ↑ International Hot Book Properties, Week of July 23, 2018. July 24, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover