Dagmar Damek

Dagmar Damek (born June 14, 1944 in Brieg , Brieg district ) is a German film and television director and screenwriter .

Life

Damek grew up as the daughter of an architect in Augsburg . After graduating from high school, she first studied art and literary history for two semesters at the Sorbonne in Paris , then art history and performing arts in Mainz .

From 1967 to 1970 she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich and graduated as a director with the diploma film Puzzlespiele . After completing her studies, she worked as a television journalist , made documentaries and was assistant director to Hans W. Geißendörfer .

Damek has been a freelance director and screenwriter since 1974. She mainly shot television films, often based on literary models, as well as episodes from television series. According to her own website, Damek lives in Munich and has not been involved in any new film projects since 2011.

Filmography

• 1975: Herbstzeitlosen (screenplay and direction)
• 1975: Choices (Director)
• 1977: Cécile (screenplay and direction), based on the novel of the same name by Theodor Fontane
• 1978: Story of a Love (screenplay and direction), based on the story April by Joseph Roth
• 1978: Angst (screenplay and direction), based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig
• 1979: Miras Haus (screenplay and direction)
• 1979: Halfway there (screenplay and direction)
• 1979: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (director)
• 1980: Headline (screenplay and direction)
• 1981: From the French era (script adaptation and direction), based on the novel Ut de Franzosentid by Fritz Reuter
• 1981: Schattenlinien (screenplay and direction)
• 1982: Dr. Margarete Johnsohn (director), based on the play Dr. John's son by Volker Elis Pilgrim
• 1983: The beautiful life (screenplay and direction), based on the story of the same name by Alberto Moravia
• 1983: The main thing is consistent (direction)
• 1983: Der Sandmann (screenplay and direction), based on the story of the same name by ETA Hoffmann
• 1985: Nachtgelächter (screenplay and direction), based on the story Alles by Ingeborg Bachmann
• 1985: Traces of Hope - Careful Touch (Director)
• 1985: The woman with the Karfunkelsteinen (script adaptation and direction), based on the novel of the same name by E. Marlitt
• 1986: The very bright light (screenplay and direction), based on the story The Welder by Ingeborg Bachmann
• 1987: Priest - We are Utopia (screenplay and direction), based on the novella Wir sind Utopia by Stefan Andres
• 1989: Roter Vogel (screenplay and direction), based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1989: Abysses (screenplay and direction)
• 1989: How You Me ... (Screenplay and Director)
• 1990: Love Stories - Sascha and Daniel (screenplay and direction)
• 1991: Playing with Fire (screenplay and direction), based on the novel L'Adultera by Theodor Fontane
• 1991: Everything works better as a couple (Director)
• 1993: Bad Blood (Director)
• 1993: Leporella (screenplay and direction), based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig
• 1994: Captive Love (Director)
• 1994: A Case for Two - Death of an Artist (Director)
• 1994: A Case for Two - The Stranger's Heart (Director)
• 1995: Anna - Under the Spell of Evil (Director)
• 1996: Die Geliebte - Lie aus Liebe (Direction)
• 1996: Stockinger - Death in the Narcissus Field (Director)
• 1996: Stockinger - The Secret of the Grimmler Falls (Director)
• 1997: And suddenly everything was different (script editing and direction)
• 1998: Life in Fear (Director)
• 1998: Dr. Berg - Only life counts (script adaptation), based on the novel Der rostende Ruhm by Heinz G. Konsalik
• 1998: Natalie III - Baby Line online (script editing and direction)
• 1998: Sommergewitter (director)
• 1999: Santa's Secretary (Director)
• 2000: Almost a Gentleman - In Love with Animals (Director)
• 2000: Almost a Gentleman - Money Isn't Everything (Director)
• 2000: The blue and the gray days (script editing and direction)
• 2000: Before sunset (director), based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann
• 2001: Natalie 4 - Life after the baby stroke (screenplay and direction)
• 2001: A Gift of Love (Director)
• 2002: The Admirer (script adaptation and direction), based on the novel of the same name by Charlotte Link
• 2004: My Son's Father (screenplay and director), based on a story by Charlotte Link
• 2005: Thank Heaven (screenplay and direction)
• 2005: Whom Love Meets ... (Director)
• 2007: The Man in the Haystack (director), based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Haran
• 2007: The Magic of the Rainbow (script adaptation and direction)
• 2008: My Dear Family - The Heir (screenplay and direction)
• 2008: My dear family - time for change (screenplay and direction)
• 2011: The Shepherdess (script editing and direction)

Web links

• Website by Dagmar Damek
• Dagmar Damek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Information on Dagmar Damek at Deutsches Filmhaus