Bernt Rhotert
Bernt Rhotert (* 1934 in Breslau , today Wrocław / Poland) is a German television dramaturge , screenwriter and writer .
Life
Rhotert grew up in Stuttgart after 1945 and studied theater studies , art history and German studies with Heinz Kindermann and Artur Kutscher at the universities of Vienna and Munich . In 1961 he received his doctorate with a thesis on German television play. He then worked in Frankfurt am Main as a television dramaturge producing, most recently as head of the TV drama and feature film division at Hessischer Rundfunk for ARD.
As a producer, writer, editor and co-writer, he wrote and edited a number of screenplays for popular television films. Mention should be made of the series Die Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann (1979), a television version of Schiller's Don Carlos and, with Horst Pillau as co-author of the multi-part Die Wilsheimer, in collaboration with director Franz Peter Wirth . Rhotert also worked for the Tatort series from 1985 to 1999 and was the producer of Polizeiruf 110: Feuertod in 1997 .
Since 1980 he has also been a lecturer for theater, film and television studies at the University of Frankfurt .
Since then he has also emerged as the author of four novels.
With Heinar Kipphardt , Gerhard Klingenberg and Helmut Krapp , he received the first television award from the "German Academy of Performing Arts" in 1964 for developing the television play In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case .
Bernt Rhotert lives in Stuttgart.
Works (selection)
- Name days , novel, 1985
- Breaking the boundaries - a relentless love , novel, 1989
- Soot and Fire , Roman, 2007
- Farben-Wahl - German-German story (novel), 2015
literature
- Bernt Rhotert In: Egon Netenjakob: TV-FILMLEXIKON , Fischer Verlag Cinema 1993 ISBN 3-596-11947-2
- Bernt Rhotert In: Die Zeit , November 6, 1964, No. 45
- Bernt Rhotert In: FAZ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 26, 1990 No. 26 / page 27
- Bernt Rhotert In: FAZ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 13, 1991
- Bernt Rhotert In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 18, 2013, No. 90
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernt Rhotert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernt Rhotert at WorldCat
- Bernt Rhotert at Dielmann-Verlag
- Berndt Rhotert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rhotert, Bernt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw , today Wroclaw |