Dirk Wittenborn
Dirk Wittenborn (* 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut ) is an American writer and screenwriter .
Life
Dirk Wittenborn was born in New Haven (CT) in 1952 and grew up there. His father, JR Wittenborn, was a professor of psychology - first at Yale and then at Rutgers - and dealt primarily with psychopharmacology, depression, substance abuse and adoption, and also worked with delinquent psychiatric patients. These topics can also be found in Dirk Wittenborn's semi-autobiographical novel Pharmakon .
Works
Novels
- Pharmacon . Viking, New York 2008 (German edition: Casper ). From the American by Angela Praesent. DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-8321-8034-6
- Bongo Europe - Memoirs of a twelve-year-old sex-obsessed, from the American by Angela Praesent . DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7964-X
- Fierce People . Bloomsbury, New York 2002, ISBN 0-747-56154-0 . (German edition: Unter Wilden ). From the American by Hans Wolf. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-442-73262-X
- Zoë . EP Dutton / S. Lawrence, New York 1983, ISBN 0-747-57165-1 . (German edition: Catwalk ). From the American by Volker Oldenburg. DuMont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-442-73400-2
- Eclipse . Dodd Mead and Co, New York 1977
Film and television productions
- Script: 2008: The Lucky Ones
- Original book and film adaptation: Fierce People (USA 2005), u. a. with Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland , directed by Griffin Dunne
- Producer: Born Rich (USA 2003)
- Scripts for various episodes: Saturday Night Live (USA, since 1975)
Web links
- Literature by and about Dirk Wittenborn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dirk Wittenborn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Dirk Wittenborn at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ JR Wittenborn and Philip RA May: Prediction of response to pharmacotherapy . CC Thomas, Springfield IL 1966.
- ↑ Jonathan O. Cole and JR Wittenborn: Pharmacotherapy of depression . CC Thomas, Springfield IL 1966.
- ↑ Jonathan O. Cole and JR Wittenborn: Drug abuse - social and psychopharmacological aspects . CC Thomas Springfield, Springfield IL 1969.
- ^ J. Richard Wittenborn: The placement of adoptive children . CC Thomas, Springfield IL 1957.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittenborn, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Haven, Connecticut |