Georg Feil

Georg Feil (born April 21, 1943 in Dorsten ) is a German film producer and author .

Life

After studying German, history, political science and communication studies (in Münster, Paris and Munich), Georg Feil received his doctorate in 1972 on "Contemporary History on German Television". He worked in communication research and was a lecturer at the University of Munich and the University of Television and Film Munich .

From 1966 Georg Feil was an author (among other things for the crime scene ) and producer at Bavaria Film , managed the series production and was its program director. In 1994 he founded the Colonia Media subsidiary in Cologne, which he left in view of the events surrounding Colonia Media during the ARD's 2006 surreptitious advertising affair. Georg Feil works as a freelance producer and teaches at the University of Television and Film Munich . In addition to his tasks in associations and scientific organizations such as the collecting society for film and television producers VFF and the advisory board of the Institute for Media and Communication Policy , he is co-editor of the series "Media Law, Media Production, Media Economics" and writes novels, short stories and non-fiction books. Feil is a member of the German Film Academy and project manager of the VFF Business Angel Scholarship . He lives near Munich.

Services

The most successful productions include the movie The Cat, the crime series Schimanski , Der Fahnder , Aufachse , the Cologne and Münster Tatorte as well as numerous television games.

His first novel “Das Gesetz” was published in 1985, followed by others in the “Black Series” by Rowohlt, as well as radio plays and short stories. The non-fiction book “Profikiller. How to write the perfect crime screenplay ”(with Werner Kluss) was published in 2003, followed by“ Documentary TV ”(ed.), And in 2006“ To be continued. Writing for the series ”.

From 1997 to 2011, Feil was head of Department III “Cinema and TV Film” and at times also deputy rector and dean of studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In 1998, together with Dieter Kosslick , he founded the Writing School Cologne eV and the Film School NRW eV, from which the International Film School Cologne emerged . Until 2005, Feil was deputy chairman of the Federal Association of German Television Producers

Publications

• The television game and its effect . In: Millionenspiele - TV operation in Germany , Munich 1972
• The film analysis . Bonn 1973
• Contemporary history on German television . Osnabrück 1974
• Expansion of television in India . Bonn 1974
• Integration of applied television research . Munich 1974
• On the theory and application of impact research . Munich 1975
• Introduction to communication science. The process of political opinion and will formation . Munich 1975
• (Ed.) Television research. Feedback or adaptation, applied project research . Berlin 1977
• Practical television dramaturgy / history of television play / creation of a series . The cliché, Munich 1977
• The English Entertainment Series: A Teaching Example . Cologne 1983
• TV series writer in England: Job with a golden pen . Cologne 1983
• Questions to empirical audience research . Hamburg 1983
• The lust and violence in: Black booty . Reinbek 1987
• No reserves, the position of the German producer . In: Jahrbuch Fernsehen 1992/93 . Marl 1995
• The interaction between production, editing and directing . Cologne 1997
• The German crime thriller and its success . Cologne 1997
• The situation of the German authors . Tutzing 1997
• The production of TV movies and series in: ABC of television . Constance 1997
• Zipp-Zappenduster or: Content is King? Frankfurt 1997
• The doctor on the edge, a very unlikely story . In: rampage in the Audimax . Reinbek 1998
• Facts - Fiction - Mentalities - The German TV market . In: epd Medien No. 64/1997 . Düsseldorf 1998
• Dead-Safe, The German Crime and its Success . In: Odds catcher crime thriller . Cologne 1999
• Our television is great . In: Nachtblende No. 14 . Cologne 1999
• New urge for stories worth telling . In: grimme, From TV Game to TV Movie . Marl 1999
• Clay pigeon shooting in the manor style . In: Radio Correspondence No. 9 . Cologne 1999
• Film production in India - Bollywood, a travelogue . Munich 1999
• Fremder Stern, the German producer - an unknown being . In: Funkkorrespondenz Nr. 43/44 . Cologne 1999
• Film without television or television and film . Booths 2000
• (Ed.) Documentary television. A current inventory . Constance 2003
• In the ultimate test of how German producers learn to go under . Munich 2003
• Professional killer (with Werner Kloss). Bergisch Gladbach 2003
• The entrepreneur in German television films. A phenomenon of displacement . In: Funkkorrespondenz , No. 27. Cologne 2004
• Sequel follows. Writing for the series . Constance 2006
• I hate producing . In: Film Producer Confessions . Constance 2010

Filmography

As an author

• 1971: Open hatred of unknown people
• 1972–1974: Around the house and yard
• 1975: Introduction to Communication Science
• 1975: Citizen
• 1975: a house for us
• 1976: The special commissioner
• 1977–1980: The immortal methods of Franz Josef Wanninger
• 1977–1989: On the move
• 1979: Tatort - The bullet in the body
• 1979: Family Day
• 1986–1988: suicide mission
• 1987-1988: Cop & Co

As a producer

• 1976: Lauenstadt inspection (4 episodes)
• 1977–1989: On the move (72 episodes)
• 1987: The Cat (movie)
• 1989: The investigator , overall management
• 1994–1996: The partners (together with Jan Hinter)
• 1994–1996: jury court (4 episodes)
• 1994–1996: Lots of Life (375 episodes), overall direction
• 1995–2005: Tatort : Cologne (36 episodes), overall director
• 1996–2002: Der Fahnder (203 episodes) overall management
• 1996–2005: Schimanski (13 episodes), overall director
• 1997: Schimanski - Die Schwadron (together with Sonja Goslicki)
• 2001: The prison - Landsberg and the emergence of the republic
• 2002–2005: Tatort: ​​Münster (6 episodes), overall director
• 2003: Welcome Home (together with Frank Döhmann and Veit Heiduschka )
• 2005: Alone against fear (together with Titus Kreyenberg)
• 2005: The Christmas porridge
• 2007/2008: Krupp - a German family (together with Oliver Berben)
• 2016: Tatort: ​​Taxi to Leipzig (together with Dagmar Rosenbauer )

Awards

• Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze 1989 for Der Fahnder (representing the creative team, together with Klaus Wennemann )
• International Emmy Award 2003, for Mein Vater , together with Sonja Goslicki

literature

• H. Kemper: Artists in our family association , part 8, 1990
• Kosch: Erg. Vol. 3, 1997
• Kürschner: German Literature Calendar , 1998
• HP Karr: Lexicon of German crime fiction authors
• StLB Dortmund: newspaper clippings collection, personal collection

Web links

• Georg Feil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Georg Feil in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• www.georg-feil.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Feil at NRW Literatur im Netz