Frank Grützbach
Frank Grützbach (* 1943 in Lötzen ( East Prussia )) is a German screenwriter , film director and writer .
Life
Frank Grützbach was initially a bookseller and advertising salesman before he was accepted at the newly founded German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) (in the very first year, together with Harun Farocki , Daniel Schmid , Wolfgang Petersen and many others). After studying film, he wrote reports for radio and television, later he became an entertainment editor at WDR . In the early 1970s he was Heinrich Böll's secretary , with whom he published two books, one about Ulrike Meinhof . Grützbach has lived in Cologne since 1964 , where he works as a director and author for radio and television. Since 1998 he has been co-author of the ARD series Lindenstrasse .
Works
Books:
- Free conduct for Ulrike Meinhof , ed., 1972, with Heinrich Böll
- An article and its consequences , 1982 with H. Böll
- Radio play for local radio , publisher, 1992, with Eva Maria Oehrens
- Kölner Heimathirsche , 1996, with Klaus Mischka
- The Black Money Eater , detective novel , 1989
- Handel street blues , 2000, with Peter Meisenberg and Ralf Leinburger (also as CD )
Radio plays: (selection)
- Cheese beer conquers the Kurfürstendamm , SFB , 1975
- Hey, boys and girls, let's have a good time together , NDR , 1975
- Gray demon , WDR / SFB, 1977
- Am Savignyplatz , DLF / SFB, 1977
- Some empty rooms , WDR, 1977
- Atlantis in the halls , WDR, 1977
- Notes from a Bad Dream , WDR, 1982
- The small disaster program , with Robert Stauffer , 1983
- Walkman , WDR / NDR, 1985
- Freeze , WDR, 40 min, 1989
- Closed session , WDR, 1990
- Klartext - The show that knows no taboo WDR, 1995
- "Street blues", with Peter Meisenberg, WDR, 2000 (director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
Films: (selection)
- Werner , short film, dffb, 1967
- As in life , episode film, co-author, WDR, 1983–86
- Trabanten screenplay and direction, WDR, 1984
- Enough! Out! End of working day! , Director, WDR, 1989
- At your own risk , crime series, co-author, 1993
- Operation Annie , documentary, director, WDR,?
- The Phoenix Deal , Tatort (TV series) , screenplay, SFB, 1996
- Rot wie das Blut , screenplay, WDR, 1998
- The Anrheiner series, co-author, WDR, 1998
- Die Lindenstrasse , series, co-author, ARD, since 1999
- Hitsch , feature film, screenplay and direction (with Tilo Prückner ), 2005
Web links
- Frank Grützbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lexicon of German crime writers
Individual evidence
- ↑ ARD audio game database
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grützbach, Frank |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter, film director and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lötzen ( East Prussia ) |