Holger Karsten Schmidt

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Holger Karsten Schmidt at the 2014 Grimme Prize

Holger Karsten Schmidt (born September 24, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German screenwriter and novelist .

Life

Schmidt grew up in Hamburg and studied German and political science in Mannheim with a focus on media studies. He also worked as a freelance copywriter. From 1992 to 1997 he studied scriptwriting at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . Schmidt lives as a freelance writer in Asperg and has been a lecturer for screenwriting at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy since 1998.

In addition to the books for the cinema films 14 days for life , Sass and Nebel in August , Holger Karsten Schmidt wrote the templates for numerous television films , including the two-parter Die Sturmflut (RTL) and Der Seewolf (ProSieben). His scripts deal with existential subjects in the form of political thrillers, contemporary historical topics or pure action films.

Schmidt wrote the crime series Der Solist for ZDF with Thomas Kretschmann as Hamburg commissioner Philip Lanart , of which four episodes were broadcast from 1999 to 2002. For Südwestrundfunk he developed the characters of the Stuttgart Tatort commissioners Lannert and Bootz ( Richy Müller and Felix Klare ) and wrote the scripts of their first three cases, which were broadcast in 2008 and 2009. Also for ZDF, he developed the four-part series about private detective Finn Zehender , played by Hinnerk Schönemann , which was broadcast from 2011 to 2014. For Schönemann he also invented the main role of the series Nord at Nordwest , which he developed and which started in 2014 on ARD . With Harter Brocken for ARD, he created his fourth series.

In 2010, three films were nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize , for which Schmidt wrote the script. He received the award for Murderer on Amrum , followed in 2014 by the Grimme Prize for Murder in Eberswalde . In 2017, three films for which Schmidt had written the scripts were again nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize - he received the prize for The White Rabbit .

In 2011 his first medieval crime novel Isenhart was published , which was broadcast in the same year under the title Isenhart - The Hunt for the Soul Catcher . The thriller On Short Distance followed in 2015 .

His pseudonym Gil Ribeiro

In 2017 Schmidt published the crime novel Lost in Fuseta - A Portugal crime thriller under the (open) pseudonym "Gil Ribeiro". This crime thriller is the prelude to a crime series about the Hamburg police detective Leander Lost, who is being transferred to Fuseta near Faro in the Algarve as part of a European exchange program .

Filmography

Novels

  • Isenhart. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3462043327 .
  • At a short distance . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3499271007 .
  • Lost in Fuseta . Under the open pseudonym "Gil Ribeiro". Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3462048872 .
  • Lost in Fuseta - trail of shadows . Under the open pseudonym "Gil Ribeiro". Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018. ISBN 978-3462051247 .
  • White cargo - Lost in Fuseta . Under the open pseudonym "Gil Ribeiro". Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019. ISBN 978-3462052688 .
  • The dead from Marnow . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3462047943 .
  • Black August - Lost in Fuseta . Under the open pseudonym "Gil Ribeiro". Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020. ISBN 978-3462052695 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holger Karsten Schmidt at the Rowohlt media agency ( memento from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Peter Luley: ARD crime thriller about GDR child molesters: Im two-stroke on sex offenders hunt In: Spiegel Online , accessed on January 30, 2013
  3. ↑ Winners Of 2018 Seoul International Drama Awards. In: soompi.com. September 3, 2018, accessed on September 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ DAfF Prize 2018: German Academy for Television announces the nominees. German Academy for Television, October 1, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 55th Grimme Prize 2019 nominations. Grimme Institute, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2019 Best multi-part. In: Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2019. Retrieved on February 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ BAFTA Television 2019: Nominations. In: bafta.org. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, March 28, 2019, accessed March 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Holger Karsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribeiro, Gil (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg