Bernd Lau

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Bernd Lau (* 1943 in Burg auf Fehmarn ; † 1992 ) was a German radio play director .

Life

Bernd Lau developed, among others, together with the radio play and screenwriter Peter Steinbach and the WDR dramaturge Johann M. Kamps in 1980/81 the "acoustic zero number" for the eleven-part television film Heimat . For this piece, which was broadcast under the title Bright enough but still pitch dark , Lau received the renowned radio play award of the war blind in 1982 . He also often worked with co-writer / co-director Walter Adler .

Shortly after finishing his last radio play The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien , Bernd Lau died at the age of 49 in a car accident. Johann M. Kamps paid tribute to him with the words: “He succeeded like no one else in projecting films into the head via the ear. His audience owes him images, ideas, fantasies that will always remain closed to the eyes. "

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SURNAME Lau, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle on Fehmarn
DATE OF DEATH 1992