Heike Brückner from Grumbkow

Heike Brückner von Grumbkow (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German screenwriter.

Life

After completing her studies in journalism and art history at the Free University of Berlin (MA), she first worked as a freelance art market journalist and dubbing writer . Between 1993 and 1997 she was in charge of ongoing projects for Grundy UFA as well as various new developments ( Verbotene Liebe , All together , Behind bars ).

After two years as a freelance screenwriter, she was a producer for Polyphon from 1999 to 2001 ( Polizeiruf 110 and new developments). As an editor at SAT.1, from 2001 to 2005 she was in charge of the development of pilot films ( The Scent of Money , Corns and Mutt ) and new series (The Elephant - Murder Never Limits , K11 - Commissioners in Action ) and supervised existing formats ( For all Cases Stefanie ). In 2006 she wrote the concept of the daily series Rote Rosen for Multimedia Niedersachsen, originally planned as a telenovela, and built up the story and script department as head author together with her brother Jörg Brückner. The 3000th episode was broadcast in 2019. The series Bloody Beginners , which has been broadcast on ZDF since January 2020 , was created in the same constellation .

In 2014, in collaboration with Jochen von Grumbkow, a blind hero was created - Otto Weidt's love . The semi-documentary film received awards at festivals in Seoul (for Edgar Selge as best actor), Haifa, Houston and New York. The authors' follow-up project is the cinematic double portrait of Mata Hari and Mademoiselle Docteur .

Heike Brückner von Grumbkow passes on her professional experience to young authors at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . She lives in Berlin with her husband and child.

Works (selection)

• 1994: Unter uns ¹ (Daily, RTL, Grundy UFA)
• 1995/96: Verbotene Liebe ¹ (Daily, RTL, Grundy UFA)
• 1996: All together - each for himself ¹ (concept, Daily, RTL 2, Grundy UFA)
• 1998: First Love - Die Große Liebe ¹ (series, ZDF, UFA)
• 1999: Our Charly ¹ (series, ZDF, Phoenix)
• 1999: Die Rote Meile ¹ (concept, books, series, SAT.1, Bavaria)
• 1999/2014: SOKO 5113 ¹ (series, ZDF, UFA)
• 2004: Bianca - Ways to Happiness ² (Telenovela, ZDF, UFA / Teamworx)
• 2006: Rote Rosen ¹ (concept, books, team building, series, ARD, Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg)
• 2007: Geld.Macht.Liebe ¹ (concept, books, series, ARD, Tivoli film)
• since 2010: Emergency call Hafenkante ¹ (series, ZDF, Studio Hamburg)
• 2014: A blind hero - The love of Otto Weidt (feature film, ARD, Vincent TV)
• 2017: Mata Hari - Dance with Death (feature film, ARD, Vincent TV)
• 2020: Bloody Beginners ¹ (Series, ZDF, Studio TV)

¹ with Jörg Brückner

² with Jörg Brückner and Karen Beyer, nominated for the German Television Award 2005

Web links

• Heike Brückner von Grumbkow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heike Brückner von Grumbkow on the website of the German Television Award
• Website of the authors Heike Brückner von Grumbkow and Jörg Brückner .