Bernd Eilert

Bernd Eilert (born June 20, 1949 in Oldenburg ) is a German writer . He is best known through his longstanding collaboration with comedian Otto Waalkes . Under the collective pseudonym Hans Mentz , he writes with other authors in the satirical magazine Titanic .

Life

Bernd Eilert studied theater studies at the University of Marburg . In 1970 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he belonged to the Neue Frankfurter Schule . He wrote articles for radio, television and the satirical magazine Pardon and tried his hand at filmmaking . In 1979 he was a co-founder of Titanic magazine , in which he was responsible for the "list of the most embarrassing personalities" until 1989. In it he established the satirical designation of Helmut Kohl as " pear-shaped ". In the 1980s he wrote a detective novel and a volume of short stories together with Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr under the acronym GEK group texts and scripts for the comedian Otto Waalkes . In 1993 he received the LiteraTour Nord Prize , and in 2003 the Binding Culture Prize .

Die Kronenklauer (together with FK Waechter ), Reinbek 1972
Ecila from the Wonderland , Aarau [among others] 1980
Bed stories (with Rita Mühlbauer and Hanno Rink ), Aarau [among others] 1981
Self-defense in Italian , Munich 1981
The aboriginal horoscope , Zurich 1983
Windy Passagen , Zurich 1991
Eckermann and his Goethe (with Eckhard Henscheid ), Zurich 1994
Kurt or the festival of love , Zurich 1996
Erna, the tree needles (with Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr ), Zurich 1998
A hare has sprung up and other beautiful stories about the festival (with Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr), Zurich 1999
Otto - the disaster film (with Otto Waalkes and Michel Bergmann ), Zurich 2000

The Casanova Project , 1980/1981, director
Otto - The Film , 1985, screenplay
Otto - The New Film , 1987, screenplay
Otto - Der Ausserfriesische , 1989, screenplay, actor
Otto - Der Liebesfilm (together with Otto Waalkes, Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr), 1992, director, screenplay
Edgar Wallace: The Castle of Horror , 1998, screenplay
Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm , 1999/2000, screenplay
7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest , 2003/2004, screenplay, producer
7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough , 2006, screenplay
Otto's Eleven , 2010, screenplay
The 7th dwarf , 2014, screenplay
Catweazle, 2020, screenplay (Director: Sven Unterwaldt )

personal data
SURNAME	Eilert, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hans Mentz (collective pseudonym of the satire magazine Titanic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oldenburg