Eckehard Munck

Eckehard Munck (* 1934 in Hamburg ; † July 17, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German screenwriter , writer and documentary filmmaker .

Live and act

Munck had graduated from high school in his home town of Hamburg and from 1953 to 1961 completed several courses in a total of three cities. In Munich he studied theater studies and in Paris he attended the Faculté de Lettres at the Sorbonne for two semesters. Munck then returned to Munich, this time to study newspaper science and finally went to Münster, where he graduated with a degree in journalism and film studies. In the meantime, at the end of the 1950s, the man from Hamburg gained his first practical knowledge as an assistant director at the Ulm City Theater. In the senior year 1961 Eckehard Munck became co-author and co-editor of the »Anthology of Forest Lyric«.

Almost at the same time he switched to the film industry and founded Leonaris-Film Dr. Munck GmbH & Co set up his own tiny production company in Böblingen, which specialized entirely in documentary films. Munck gained brief practical experience at Wiener Schönbrunn-Film in 1961 and in that year single-handedly wrote the screenplay for the Inge Meysel film on the 6th floor , based on the model (1937) by a French author. It was to be Munck's only excursion into entertainment film for many decades. Until the end of the 1980s Munck produced or directed short documentaries on a wide variety of topics, but preferred the areas of health, medicine and biology. Munck wrote the book in 1972 and also directed the 40-minute documentary The Silent Revolution about molecular biology and future prospects. This Leonaris film production received a nomination for an Oscar for best documentary in 1973 .

Since the mid-1980s, Leonaris-Film Muncks gradually discontinued its production activities, and Eckehard Munck has now returned to the entertainment film industry. He wrote scripts and also directed television. The television film Die Karpfenschlacht, directed, written and produced by him in 1984 (based on a model by Manfred Purzer ) is considered the most frequently repeated German television film between 1985 and 1995. In 1993 Munck directed an episode of the ARD series Stories from Home with Barbara Rudnik , Gudrun Landgrebe and Peter Bongartz in the lead roles. In the following two years Munck directed a considerable number of episodes of the RTL series Stadtklinik . Eckehard Munck, who also appeared as a book author (e.g. "The Biological Revolution"), then retired as a filmmaker and lived in Höchstädt an der Donau until 2011. That year he moved to Berlin, where he died five years later.

Filmography

As a producer and / or director of short documentaries unless otherwise noted

• 1961: On the 6th floor (full-length film, screenplay)
• 1967: Symphony in G major (also screenplay)
• 1968: The Unknown Continent (also screenplay)
• 1969: It's a long way (also screenplay)
• 1972: The forest film (also screenplay)
• 1972: The Silent Revolution
• 1974: Research for tomorrow
• 1975: energy for tomorrow
• 1976: The required generation
• 1976: The healthy patient
• 1977: Quo vadis, Adam? (also script)
• 1978: Insulin in practice
• 1978: Everything in its time
• 1979: Eutrophy preventable
• 1979: The forgotten heart
• 1983: How do you speak digitally if you are not a woodpecker
• 1985: Die Karpfenschlacht (TV feature film , also screenplay)
• 1986: Microworld - History of Microscopy
• 1987: Oil from the sun
• 1989: thinking about the future
• 1993: Stories from Home (TV film)
• 1994–95: Stadtklinik (TV series)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMDb, however, names the Polish-born Edouard de Laurot as the director
2. ↑ Production data on crew-united.com
3. ↑ according to forstlyrik.de

Web links

• Eckehard Munck biography on forstlyrik.de
• Eckehard Munck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eckehard Munck at filmportal.de
• Production company Leonaris-Film Dr. Munck GmbH & Co