Script workshop Munich
The Screenwriting Workshop Munich is a free 12-month advanced training program for screenwriters that has been held annually since 1989 and is sponsored by the University of Television and Film Munich in cooperation with the Bavarian State Chancellery and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . It is organized by the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the University of Television and Film in Munich eV The director of the study is Martin Thau as successor to Wolfgang Längfeld .
implementation
Out of more than a hundred applicants, 10 authors are selected annually for a so-called script year based on the selection of talented individuals. During the following year, each participant develops a script that is “ready for the crank” under individual supervision. This will then be presented to producers and editors at the Munich Film Festival . The Script Workshop in Munich, at the request a living allowance as a scholarship grant. Peter Renz received the first scholarship in 1989 .
At the end of the 10th year (1998/99), the script workshop set up its own award for the first time. The Tankred Dorst script award, endowed with 3,000 euros, from the Munich script workshop has been awarded annually to a graduate since then. To mark its twentieth anniversary, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation produced a DVD.
Graduates include successful film and television professionals as well as writers such as B. Friedrich Ani , Philip Gröning , Tanja Kinkel , Susanne Schneider ( solo for clarinet ), Bernd Lichtenberg ( Good Bye, Lenin! ), Daniel Speck ( Bella Germania ), Karin Michalke (trilogy Best Time / Best Region / Best Chance , Räuber Kneißl ), Sylke Rene Meyer , Robert Seethaler ( Der Trafikant ) and Stefanie de Velasco . 35 of the scripts created as part of the Munich Script Workshop have been filmed to this day. The works of the following authors were awarded film and television awards:
- Susanne Schneider - Strangers, Dear Strangers (Adolf Grimme Prize, 1991)
- Monika Bittl - Sau sticht (audience award of the magazine Bild + Funk , 1995 and Bavarian television award , 1996)
- Hans-Christian Schmid - 23 - Nothing is as it seems ( German Film Prize , Filmband in Silver 1999)
- Franziska Buch - Get Out of Here ( Max Ophüls Prize , 2000)
- Ariela Bogenberger - Maria's Last Journey ( Adolf Grimme Prize , 2005)
- Nana Neul - My friend from Faro (Max Ophüls Prize, 2008)
- Florian David Fitz - Vincent will Meer ( Bambi and Bavarian TV Prize, both 2010; German Film Prize Best Film, 2011)
Web links
literature
- Martin Thau: Three years of script workshop in Munich . An experience report. In: Alexander Schwarz : The screenplay. History, theory, practice . Schaudig, Bauer, Ledig, 1992. ISBN 978-3-926-37204-8 (pp. 203 ff)
- Sandra Uschtrin, Michael Joe Küspert: Handbook for authors . Addresses and information from the German literature and media industry. Uschtrin, 2001. ISBN 978-3-932-52210-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Film and television Hard business for young authors , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010
- ↑ Wilhelm Kuhlmann : KILLY Literaturlexikon , Volume 9 Os - Roq. Walter de Gruyter, 2010. ISBN 978-3-110-22045-2
- ^ Matthias Leybrand: No film without a book. 20 years of the script workshop in Munich . Munich, 2009
- ↑ Script workshop master students - their filmed books
- ↑ Interview in Glamor