Christian Goerlitz

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Christian Görlitz (* 1944 in Hamburg as Helmut Christian Görlitz) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Görlitz studied psychology and philosophy in Hamburg and literature at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA . For the film The Knife in the Back (1975), he took on the assistant director role alongside director Ottokar Runze . For the movie Das Ende vom Anfang (1984) he was responsible for the first time as a screenwriter (based on the novel Treibjagd by Michael Holzner) and at the same time as a director.

In the following years of his career, Görlitz worked mainly for television . Here he worked in a wide variety of genres , such as B. in the TV thriller The Deal (1991; written and directed), the children's series Der kleine Vampir (1993; directed) or the psychological drama Freier Fall (1997; written and directed). In 2008 Görlitz shot the tragic comedy Meat is My Vegetables (script and direction), another movie based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Heinz Strunk . His TV drama Seven Hours was described as "masterful" by Spiegel Online and was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2019 .

Awards (selection)

  • Silver Nymph and Audience Award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival (1989)
  • The Little Vampire (1993)
    • Prize of the Children's Jury at the Chicago Children's Film Festival 1994 (for episode 2, in the category "Live-Action Short Film or Video Over 15 Minutes", together with the US feature film Tis the Season (1994))
    • Adolf Grimme Prize 1994, together with Achim Hagemann
  • Free Fall (1997)
  • One Job (2008)
    • Platinum Remi Award 2009, Houston International Film Festival, Texas

Filmography

  • 1981: The end of the beginning (movie)
  • 1982: On the Long Road (TV series)
  • 1982: Run, Suffer, Live Longer (TV miniseries )
  • 1983: Der Fahnder (TV series; three episodes)
  • 1986: The Locomotive (TV movie)
  • 1986–1988: A tricky case (TV series, various episodes) (also screenplay)
  • 1988: Die Bombe (TV movie) (also screenplay)
  • 1988–1989: Großstadtrevier (TV series; three episodes)
  • 1991: The Deal (TV movie)
  • 1991: Our Hagenbecks (TV series; 18 episodes)
  • 1991: Müller and Miller (TV miniseries)
  • 1993: The Little Vampire (TV series; 12 episodes)
  • 1995: The King (TV series; 3 episodes)
  • 1997: Great Freedom (TV series; 12 episodes)
  • 1997: Freier Fall (TV movie)
  • 1997: Mission Hamburg Süd (TV series; 6 episodes)
  • 1998: Evil (TV movie)
  • 1998: The King - Dr. med. Murder (TV movie)
  • 1999: The Prize of Longing (TV film)
  • 1999: Bella Block : Whispered Murders (TV series)
  • 2000: The Stolen Life (TV movie)
  • 2001: Klara's Wedding (aka Olive Trees) (TV movie)
  • 2001: The Crimes of Professor Capellari (TV series; an episode)
  • 2001: Lawyer Abel (TV series; two episodes)
  • 2002: Murderer's Heart (TV movie)
  • 2002: Murder in the Lord's House (TV Movie)
  • 2003: At Night When Day Begins (TV Movie)
  • 2003: Die Geisel (TV movie)
  • 2004: The Duo (TV series; one episode)
  • 2004: Out of Control (TV Movie)
  • 2004: Inspector Rex (TV series; two episodes)
  • 2006: The Lost (TV Movie)
  • 2006: Mutterglück (TV movie)
  • 2008: Meat is my vegetable (movie)
  • 2008: A Job (TV Movie)
  • 2011: Tatort - Yesterday was not a day (TV series)
  • 2009-2018: The Criminalist (TV series; 30 episodes)
  • 2016: Spreewald Crime: Playing with Death (TV series)
  • 2018: Seven Hours (2018) (TV Movie)

As a screenwriter:

  • 1984: The end of the beginning (movie)
  • 1987: The Bomb (TV movie)
  • 1991: The Deal (TV movie)
  • 1991: Our Hagenbecks (TV series; 10 episodes)
  • 1995: Deadly Money (TV movie)
  • 1996–1997: Great Freedom (TV series; 10 episodes)
  • 1997: Freier Fall (TV movie)
  • 1998: Evil (TV movie)
  • 1998: The King - Dr. med. Murder (TV movie)
  • 2000: Bella Block : Whispered Murders (TV series)
  • 2001: The Crimes of Professor Capellari (TV series; one episode)
  • 2002: Murderer's Heart (TV movie)
  • 2002: Murder in the Lord's House (TV Movie)
  • 2003: Die Geisel (TV movie)
  • 2004: The Duo (TV series; one episode, 2004)
  • 2004: Out of Control (TV Movie)
  • 2006: The Lost (TV Movie)
  • 2006: Mutterglück (TV movie)
  • 2008: Meat is my vegetable (movie)
  • 2008: A Job (TV Movie)
  • 2012: The Bride in the Snow (TV series)
  • 2018 Seven Hours (TV Movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arno Frank: rape drama on Arte: "I'm dirty. It sticks to me" . In: Spiegel Online . September 7, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 24, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Seven hours (H&V Entertainment for BR / ARTE). Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Award for “Ein Job” ndr.de, accessed on June 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Görlitz, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görlitz, Helmut Christian (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg