Doris Heinze

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Doris J. Heinze (* 12. May 1949 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , actually Doris Johanna Heinze Strobel ) was until September 2009, the teleplay head of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), and in this capacity one of the most influential and successful TV movie - editors of Germany. She gained notoriety through the script affair , for which she was sentenced to imprisonment in 2012 for corruption , fraud and infidelity . Since 1995 she has also worked as a part-time screenwriter .

Life

Doris Heinze attended a grammar school in Bochum, which she left early with the secondary school leaving certificate. She then completed vocational training as an industrial clerk at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). After completing her apprenticeship, she worked in technical operations there, then switched to a forklift company and trained as a state-certified business economist at a private school .

In 1984 Heinze became managing director of Filmbüro NW e. V. (at that time in Mülheim an der Ruhr , since 2009 in Cologne ), which she directed until 1989. From 1985 to 1988 she was also a representative of independent filmmakers on the WDR Broadcasting Council . At the same time she represented the WDR on the German Television Advisory Board. From 1989 to 1991 she worked as a producer at the filmpool film and television production in Cologne and supervised television films , documentaries and international cinema co-productions for ZDF and WDR.

In 1991 Doris Heinze became head of the television film, feature film and theater program at NDR. She was responsible for the NDR- Tatort , the NDR- Polizeiruf 110 and the editorial support of the series FilmMittwoch im Erste (formerly: Wilde Herzen ) and most recently earned 104,000 euros a year in this position. Your department contributed over a dozen films to the ARD program each year and supervised individual NDR television projects .

She has also written the scripts for many of these productions and developed very well-known characters with her editorial team, such as the crime scene commissioners Cenk Batu ( Hamburg , Mehmet Kurtuluş ), Charlotte Lindholm ( Hanover , Maria Furtwängler ) and Klaus Borowski ( Kiel , Axel Milberg ). She was considered one of the most influential minds in the industry. At the Hamburg Media School she was one of the lecturers for the 2006-2008 class in film studies.

Script affair

In 2009, research by the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) revealed that Doris Heinze had scripts by her husband Claus Strobel , the director and author of several documentaries , bought and produced for NDR for years . According to Doris Heinzes presentation, these works were submitted under a " pseudonym ". From 2001 to 2009, Heinze's husband signed scripts for five television films with two production companies under the false name of "Niklas Becker". Four books have been filmed and accounted for by the Munich company AllMedia Pictures . The fifth order was initially invoiced to the NDR by Oberon Media Service Film from Grünwald , but was later reversed. The bills were countersigned by his wife.

Doris Heinze had used her position of trust as head of television games at NDR to portray “Niklas Becker” as a contact-shy artist who does not come to conferences and lives secluded abroad ( Amsterdam and Montreal ). In order to underpin the invention of "Niklas Becker", the alleged author's e-mail correspondence with the NDR was faked. Heinze invented a fictional résumé for the press books of the NDR productions based on scripts by "Niklas Becker". The business contact between the author and the production company took place through Claus Strobel's law firm.

Shortly after the script scandal became known, Heinze's superiors issued statements in which they stated that they had no knowledge of the deception activities of their television game manager. Doris Heinze's environment had long been known as a closed circle that she had a firm grip on. However, directors, writers and producers were afraid to voice their suspicions out loud because of their reliance on Heinze's assignments. For years no one from the NDR management wanted to or could not follow up on these rumors, which ultimately led to a controversy with the Association of German Scriptwriters (VDD).

It took about eight years until the events became public on August 27, 2009 and Doris Heinze lost her position as TV film director at NDR. The end of her career as “one of the most talented female television filmmakers in Germany” was described by the head of the Fiction & Entertainment program department at NDR as “extremely tragic”. While no one on the station was supposed to have known about it, two confidantes at the participating production company AllMedia Pictures were identified and also released from their duties.

In the further course of the investigation, Heinze confessed to having sold his own texts - two scripts and a treatment - to NDR under a false name. Heinze came up with the pseudonym "Marie Funder (-Donoghue)", wrote another résumé for the press booklet and again simulated e-mail traffic with the NDR. As a resident writer, however, she should only have received 50% of the usual script fees, so that the station suffered financial damage. The books submitted were the production The Girlfriend of the Daughter , the non-shot film Tuesdays with Antoine and the Polizeiruf-110 treatment The poor children of Schwerin . In this context, the NDR announced a second notice of termination against Doris Heinze on September 20, 2009. Even after the resignations, Doris Heinze was certified by her former superior as having “very excellent” skills. In February 2011, Heinze apologized publicly in an interview with NDR. Your behavior was "absolute nonsense". In retrospect, she is "extremely sorry", but cannot be taken back.

Before the Chamber of Commerce of the Hamburg Regional Court , Doris Heinze had to answer for serious corruption , serious breach of trust and fraud . Her husband Claus Strobel and the film producer Heike Richter-Karst of AllMedia Pictures were also charged . On October 8, 2012, Heinze was sentenced in the first instance to one year and ten months in prison. The sentence has been suspended. On October 1, 2013, the Federal Court of Justice announced that Heinze's application for appeal had been rejected as unfounded. The court thus confirmed the conviction by the Hamburg district court for corruption, fraud and infidelity.

Filmography

All films as a screenwriter:

Web links

Wikiquote: Doris Heinze  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of date of birth: filmportal.de, accessed on August 28, 2009 ( Memento from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Force majeure: Karl Hieronymus Schröder's first case. In: Amazon.de. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ms. Heinze has made careers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 5, 2012
  4. ↑ Stern No. 53 of December 22, 2009 p. 73
  5. ^ Speaker profile, Femtec conference, Berlin 2007
  6. ↑ The puppeteer . In: Stern , No. 53 of December 22, 2009, p. 75.
  7. ↑ Why the NDR is angry with the star , Hamburger Abendblatt January 2, 2010.
  8. ^ Nicolas Richter, Hans Leyendecker: Tatort ARD . sueddeutsche.de, August 28, 2009
  9. ↑ The prosecutor is investigating . Hamburger Abendblatt.
  10. ↑ Uli Martin, Günther Bähr, Hubert Gude, Jan-Philipp Hein: Fear of the mighty . focus.de, September 7, 2009.
  11. ↑ Scandal over Heinze manuscripts: screenwriters deny NDR allegations , spiegel.de, September 1, 2009
  12. ↑ Unfair script assignments for the husband . Abendblatt.de, August 28, 2009
  13. ^ Michael Hanfeld: The phantom of Hamburg . faz.net, August 28, 2009.
  14. ↑ Markus Brauck: The suspended "Tatort" boss also bought her own scripts . spiegel.de, August 31, 2009.
  15. ↑ Heinze confirms further allegations . ndr.de, September 2, 2009.
  16. ^ Second dismissal against Doris Heinze . Welt Online, September 20, 2009.
  17. ↑ New crime scene with Maria Furtwängler - "Ms. Heinze (was) a very excellent dramaturge and editor"
  18. ↑ Doris Heinze: "It was absolute nonsense to do something like that at all" (Das Wort zum Murder, video interview)
  19. ↑ Trial against Doris Heinze: lawyers negotiate a deal. In: Spiegel Online . July 5, 2012, accessed October 8, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Ex-NDR TV game boss Heinze in court: “A crazy big mistake”. July 13, 2012, accessed October 8, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Ex-NDR film director Heinze gets suspended sentence kress.de, October 8, 2012
  22. ^ Revision discarded - Doris Heinze: Judgment against ex-NDR boss final. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding , October 1, 2013, accessed on October 9, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Heinze, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinze, Doris J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and cheater
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr