Don Bohlinger

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Donald Francis Bohlinger (born April 27, 1956 ) is an American screenwriter and university lecturer .

Life

Donald Francis Bohlinger studied English at the University of Notre Dame and film studies at Columbia University . Bohlinger made his debut as a screenwriter for a movie with the thriller The Killing Time . With the television film The Tourist , he wrote a script for the European market for the first time in 1996. Although he writes in English, he was able to write other scripts for television films such as Endlich Sex! , Pop you slim! and write The Mysterious Treasure of Troy . Together with Christoph Darnstädt , he was honored for his work on the literary adaptation Das Experiment 2001 at the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Screenplay.

Although Bohlinger almost exclusively writes screenplays in Germany, he also co-wrote the Dutch comedy Liever Lauffd (2003), the French-language international production Die Schwenken der Frauen (1997) and the Austrian-German coproduction Dierück des Tanzlehrers .

Since 1986 Bohlinger has taught screenwriting at various universities. From 1986 to 1987 he was adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport . From 1987 to 1996 he was an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California . From 1988 to 1998 he was also a visiting professor at the various universities in Barcelona , Berlin and Los Angeles . Since 2008 he has held his own professorship for screenwriting at the University of Southern California.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Don Francis Bohlinger, MFA , cinema.usc.edu