Günter Schütter

Günter Schütter (* 1959 in Remscheid ) is a German screenwriter .

Live and act

Günter Schütter was born in Remscheid in 1959. He studied German philology and theater studies in Munich . He later switched to the University of Television and Film Munich .

Initially, Günter Schütter worked as a film editor , dramaturge and also as an actor . In the mid-1980s, he began writing scripts. Among other things, he wrote the screenplays for the television films Wellen and Sperling and the cat in a trap , both of which were nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2006.

Günter Schütter works again and again with the director Dominik Graf , for example on the television series Der Fahnder and films like Die Sieger , Tatort: ​​Frau Bu lacht or Der Rote Kakadu .

Filmography (selection)

• 1984: Heaven is All Hell (Actor)
• 1989: The Long Summer ( TV Movie , Actor)
• 1992, 1993: Der Fahnder (screenwriter of two episodes)
• 1994: The winners
• 1995: Incest - A Case for Sina Teufel (TV movie)
• 1995: Tatort - Ms. Bu laughs ( TV thriller )
• 1997: The Scorpion (TV movie)
• 1997: Doktor Knock (TV movie)
• 2002: Heaven on Earth (TV film)
• 2003: love and desire
• 2005: Waves (TV movie)
• 2005: Sperling - Sparrow and the cat in a trap (TV thriller)
• 2005: Police Call 110 - The Scarlet Angel (TV crime thriller)
• 2006: The Red Cockatoo
• 2008: God Protects Lovers (TV Movie)
• 2011: Police call 110 - Cassandra's warning (TV thriller)
• 2013: Polizeiruf 110 - Death makes angels out of us all (TV thriller)
• 2014: Polizeiruf 110 - Smoke on the Water (TV crime thriller)
• 2019: Polizeiruf 110 - The lie we call the future (TV thriller)

Awards

• 1998: Nomination for the RTL TV Award Golden Lion in the category Best Screenplay TV Film / Series for Der Skorpion (Director: Dominik Graf )
• 1998: TV Play Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for The Scorpion (Director: Dominik Graf)
• 2006: Grimme Prize in the fiction / entertainment category for Polizeiruf 110: The Scarlet Angel (Director: Dominik Graf)
• 2012: Nomination for the Grimme Prize in the category fiction / individual programs for Polizeiruf 110: Cassandra's Warning (Director: Dominik Graf)
• 2013: Nomination for the German Television Award in the category Best Screenplay for Polizeiruf 110: Death makes angels out of us all (Director: Jan Bonny )
• 2014: Nomination for the Grimme Prize in the category fiction / individual programs for Polizeiruf 110: Death makes angels out of us all (director: Jan Bonny)
• 2014: Bayerische3 Fernsehpreis for the script for the Polizeiruf 110: Death makes angels out of us all (Director: Jan Bonny)
• 2016: Hans Abich Prize

Web links

• Günter Schütter in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait of Günter Schütter on the official website of the Grimme Institute ( memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.