Bodo Trotter

Bodo Traber (2019)

Bodo Traber (born 23. January 1965 in Pforzheim ) is a German writer , synchronous and radio play - director , film journalist and publisher .

Life

After studying film and television studies at the Free University of Berlin , Traber was the second film editor of the city newspaper Zitty ( Berlin ) from 1990 to 1993 . Since 1990 he has been working as a freelance screenwriter and dubbing writer or director for film and television. He is also a radio play author and director, u. a. for the WDR . Traber lives in Berlin.

Screenwriter

Traber has been working as a freelance screenwriter since 1995. From 2006 to 2010, he was a member of the writing team for the daily soap Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten , for which he wrote more than 50 episodes. Various of his projects have received funding.

Film journalist

Traber was and is also active as a film journalist and critic for various print and online magazines and daily newspapers . a. several years for Die Welt , Berliner Morgenpost and the Federal Agency for Political Education . He has been an editorial staff member since 1993 and has also been the publisher and editor-in-chief of the film magazine / online magazine Splatting Image since 2014 and made a name for himself as co-editor of two encyclopedias in the film genre series by Reclam Verlag . In addition, Traber has recorded numerous historical audio commentaries and video intros for DVD / Blu-ray releases. He is also the co-author of two adult education books .

Dubbing director and author

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Traber wrote German dialogue books for various feature films and television series , including the films Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant , Die Chinesin by Jean-Luc Godard and Ultra by Ricky Tognazzi, as well as the television series Picket Fences and Alone Against the Future . Since 2011 he has specialized in the synchronization of genre classics and old cult films.

Radio play director and author

Traber's radio plays mostly belong to the thriller , horror or science fiction genre. He was twice awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the best science fiction radio play of the year: 2009 for Die Flüsterer (with Tilman Zens ) and 2018 for Paradise Revisited and has been nominated several times. In 2018, the radio play jury of the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize named him “an author who has once again proven himself to be a master of realistic dialogue and whose work unmistakably breathes the spirit of Philip K. Dick ”.

Filmography (German dubbing) (selection)

1990: Drugstore Cowboy (USA 1990, D: Gus Van Sant) (German dialogue book)
1991: Roger Cormans Frankenstein (Frankenstein Unbound) (USA 1990, D: Roger Corman) (German dialogue book)
1991: Vale Tudo - At any price Valde Tudo (Brazilian Telenovela ARD) (German dialogue book)
1993: The Chinese (La chinoise) (France 1967, D: Jean-Luc Godard) (German dialogue book)
1993–1995: Picket Fences - Tatort Gartenzaun (Picket Fences) (US TV series) (German dialogue book)
1997–2000: Alone Against the Future (Early Edition) (US TV series) (German dialogue book)
2011: In den Klauen deriefen (The Mole People) (USA 1956, D: Virgil Vogel) (German dialogue book and director)
2012: Divorce in Finnish (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo) (Finland 2009, D: Mika Kaurismäki) (German dialogue book and director)
2012: A Last Summer (Harvest) (USA 2010, D: Marc Meyers) (German dialogue book and direction)
2012: The Sadist of Notre Dame (Exorcisme) (France 1975, D: Jess Franco) (German dialogue book)
2012: Gamera against Viras (Gamera tai Viras) (Japan 1968, D: Noriaki Yuasa) (German dialogue book)
2013: Gamera versus Guiron (Gamera tai Guiron) (Japan 1969, D: Noriaki Yuasa) (German dialogue book)
2014: Coherence (GB / USA 2013, D: James Ward Byrkit) (German dialogue book)
2015: The Demon's Rook (USA 2013, D: James Sizemore) (German dialogue script and direction)
2015: The Perfume of the Lady in Black (Il profumo della signora in nero) (Italy 1974, D: Francesco Barilli) (German dialogue book)
2015/16: Im Sumpf des Horens (The Alligator People) (USA 1959, D: Roy del Ruth) (German dialogue book and director)
2015/16: Gamera the Brave (Japan 2006, D: Ryuta Tasaki) (German dialogue director)
2016: Giallo a Venezia (Italy 1979, D: Mario Landi) (German dialogue book)
2017: Spider Baby (USA 1964, D: Jack Hill) (German dialogue script and direction)
2017: Paranoia (Italy 1970, D: Umberto Lenzi) (German dialogue book and direction)
2017: The Terrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichock) (Italy 1962, D: Riccardo Freda) (German dialogue book and director)
2018: Das Blutbiest (The Blood Beast Terror) (GB 1967, D: Vernon Sewell) (German dialogue book and direction)
2018: Madman (USA 1981, D: Joe Giannone) (German script and direction)
2019: The House of Fear (La casa della paura) (Italy 1973, D: William Rose) (German dialogue book and direction)
2019: The Terror Lurks in Space (It! The Terror from Beyond Space) (USA 1958, D: Edward L. Cahn) (German dialogue book and director)
2019: The Island of Lost Souls (USA 1932, D: Erle C. Kenton) (German dialogue book and direction)
2019: The secret of Dr. Mirakel (Murders in the Rue Morgue) (USA 1931, D: Robert Florey) (German dialogue director)
2020: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (Los ojos azules de la mueca rota) (Spain 1973, D: Carlos Aured) (German dialogue book and director)

Filmography (screenwriter) (selection)

1995/96: Die Drei (German TV series, episode The Old Man and Death )
2006–2010: Good times, bad times (German TV series, various episodes)
2006–2010: Alisa - Follow Your Heart (German TV series, various episodes)
2010/11: Alice and the Synchronists (with Norbert Baumgarten ) ( MDM funding) (not yet made into a film)
2012: Valentin's decision (with Norbert Baumgarten) ( FFA script funding) (not yet filmed)

Radio plays (author)

2003: Mühlheimer's Experiment (WDR) (nomination for radio play award )
2004: The Cross on the Erlenberg (WDR)
2006: Ghost Writer (WDR)
2007: 51 degrees West (with Tilman Zens) (WDR)
2008: The Whisperers (with Tilman Zens) (WDR) (Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2009)
2010: Before Sunrise (WDR) (Nomination & Special Mention Prix Europa )
2011: The Blue Sheep (WDR) (nomination for Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2012)
2012: Puppenstadt (with Tilman Zens) (WDR) (nomination for Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2013)
2013: Sir Joe (WDR)
2013: Sherlock Holmes - The New Cases: The Ingenious Magician (Allscore Media)
2014: The thing in the fog (WDR)
2015: Hostile Area (Romantic Rest) (WDR)
2015: Prof. van Dusen chases a shadow (Allscore Media)
2015: Delay (WDR)
2016: Night Express (WDR)
2016: Fungus - Pilz des Grauens (WDR) (with Jörg Buttgereit ) (author and director)
2016: Sherlock Holmes - The New Cases: The Red Spider (Allscore Media)
2017: Paradise Revisited (WDR) (Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2018) (author and director)
2018: Nacht und Neumond (WDR) (author and director)
2020: Heaven Line (WDR)

Bibliography (editor)

2004: Film genres: adventure film (with Hans J. Wulff), Ditzingen b. Stuttgart (Reclam publishing house)
2006: Film genres: War film (with Thomas Klein and Marcus Stiglegger ), Ditzingen b. Stuttgart (Reclam publishing house)

theatre

2005: Winter Warriors - Vietnam Veterans Testify ; World premiere: May 12, 2005, Comédie Soleil - Das Theater in der Brandenburger Vorstadt, Potsdam

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on fernsehserien.de

↑ Screenplay funding from the Filmförderungsanstalt

↑ Article of January 9, 1999

↑ Article of August 5, 2004

↑ Article of November 3, 2005

↑ Article dated June 7, 2003

↑ Keyword Bodo Traber

↑ Drehli Robnik, Michael Palm (ed.): And the word became flesh - texts about films by David Cronenberg. In: The Humanist. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .

↑ Michael Haul: Frank Schnelle (Ed.): Hollywood Professional. In: Astron Alpha. June 1, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2019 (text via Jack Arnold ).

^ Works by Bodo Traber in the Reclam publishing house

↑ Fan forum page with a list of German audio comments

^ Title by Bodo Traber in the KBW Fachbuchverlag

↑ Laudation 2009

↑ Laudation 2018

personal data
SURNAME	Trotter, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, dubbing and radio play director, film journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pforzheim

[1] Entry on fernsehserien.de