Christos Yiannopoulos

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Christos Yiannopoulos (born December 27, 1957 in Patras , Greece ) is a German-Greek screenwriter and author .

biography

Christos Yiannopoulos moved to Germany in 1964 as the son of Greek guest workers . He has been an orphan since 1970. In 1977 he graduated from high school. Yiannopoulos then studied German and pedagogy in Düsseldorf . At the age of 24 he wrote his first screenplay, Italian career , which was made into a film. Since 1992 he has mainly been a screenwriter for television. He currently lives in Düsseldorf .

His greatest success was Der Venusmörder (1996), which reached 7.86 million viewers when it was first broadcast on RTL . The film Weird Birds was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1998 . Some of his films have been shown abroad.

In addition to scripts, he also writes books for children and adults. Together with Thomas Niermann , he wrote the two volumes of Ein Dschinn for all cases under the pseudonym Thomas Christos . His children's book Orbis Adventure was awarded the “Leipzig Reading Compass” in 2012 and recommended by the Reading Foundation . Some of his books have also been published abroad, such as Orbi's Adventure in Korea, Japan and Latvia, The Mindcracker in Spain, Pretty Best Paws in Japan, the Netherlands and Russia. Together with Sebastian Büttner, Yiannopoulos developed the Dr. developed, which was funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Filmography

films and series

  • 1982: Italian career (WDR)
  • 1989: BODO, a completely normal family ( ZDF )
  • 1993: table and bed (series, WDR )
  • 1994–1995: Work for Lohbeck (series, WDR)
  • 1994: Against the Wind (series, WDR)
  • 1994: Hotel Mama (ZDF)
  • 1994: blue bird; thirteen part television series
  • 1995: Felix - a friend for life ( RTL )
  • 1995: Bloody Trace (RTL)
  • 1995: Murderous Twins (RTL)
  • 1996: The murderer of Venus (RTL)
  • 1996: Kurklinik Rosenau ( Sat.1 )
  • 1997: Gigolo (RTL)
  • 1997: Weird Birds (WDR)
  • 1997: Hotel Mama 2 (ZDF)
  • 1998: The Holy Whore (RTL)
  • 1998: The Killer's Kiss (RTL)
  • 1998: Tatort - The second man
  • 1999: Hotel Mama 3 (ZDF)
  • 2000: Nesthocker - family to be given away (series, ZDF)
  • 2001: The secret glances of the murderer (Sat.1)
  • 2001: Sleep with my husband (RTL)
  • 2002: Hotel Animal (WDR)
  • 2002: The ABC of Life (ZDF)
  • 2004: The dead live longer ( NDR )
  • 2004: Swap child for career (ZDF)
  • 2005: A seal to fall in love with ( ARD )
  • 2006: Rick and Olli (series, ARD)
  • 2007: METRO - A team for life and death (series, ZDF)

Series ideas

Books

  • 2007: A Djinn for all cases (together with Thomas Niermann)
  • 2007: Panic in New York
  • 2008: The Secret of the Pyramid
  • 2008: The Mind Cracker
  • 2009: The Asmodis case
  • 2009: In the realm of the dead
  • 2002: Hero of Work (together with Thomas Niermann)
  • 2011: Feta and Sons , Ullstein, Berlin.
  • 2011: Thomas Christos: Orbis Adventure, a little robot escapes. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-596-85435-6 .
  • 2013: Thomas Christos: Sina Saber Tooth and the Dino Egg. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-596-85589-6 .
  • 2014: Thomas Christos: The Brussels Sprouts Gang. dotbooks, Munich, ISBN 978-3-95520-106-7 .
  • 2014: Thomas Christos: Orbis Adventure, a little robot makes it rattle. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-596-85665-7
  • 2015: Pretty best paws. - two strays find home. Lübbe, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-404-60854-6
  • 2016: Zerrissen, a family lawyer tells of power, powerlessness and (in) justice , (together with Doris Schröder). Lübbe, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7857-2578-8
  • 2017: Thomas Christos: "Buddy Cool, from loser to loser". Fabulus Verlag, ISBN 3944788508
  • 2019: Thomas Christos: "1965 - The first case for Thomas Engel". Blanvalet, ISBN 978-3-7645-0719-0

Anthologies with texts by Thomas Christos Monika Dietrich-Lüders, Ella and Max ..., Schroedel, 2013, ISBN 978-3-507-47447-5

APP Dr Liliput, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christos Yiannopoulos: The Mindcracker-The Asmodis Case. 2009, p. 2.
  2. ↑ a b Christos Yiannopoulos ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Christos Yiannopoulos website.
  3. ↑ Wikipedia on the Grimme Prize 1998 - see documents there
  4. ↑ Christos at ČSFD.cz
  5. ↑ Leipzig Reading Compass, 2012 ( Memento from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Dr. Liliput - Expedition doctor's office. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Yiannopoulos, Christos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Patras