Herbert Lichtenfeld

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Herbert Lichtenfeld (born June 16, 1927 in Leipzig ; † December 11, 2001 in Hamburg ) was one of the most successful television authors in Germany . According to his own statements, he wrote a total of 300 scripts .

Life

Beginnings

After graduating from high school and starting music studies in Leipzig , Lichtenfeld, who had grown up as the son of a worker, moved to the Federal Republic in 1950. There he worked as a reporter for several daily newspapers . After stations and a. At the Badischer Tageblatt im Murgtal and the Neue Rhein Zeitung in Cologne he became head of the television department of the magazine Hörzu in the 1960s . At this time Lichtenfeld began to write books, especially radio plays . Since 1968 he has worked full-time as a screenwriter . His first television film Deutschlandreise (1970, NDR ) was awarded the Grimme Silver Prize.

Activity as an author

A little later the collaboration with the then unknown director Wolfgang Petersen began . Together they developed the Kiel commissioner Finke (played by Klaus Schwarzkopf ) for the ARD television series Tatort . The ratings were sometimes over seventy percent. The highlight was the episode high school diploma (1977) with Nastassja Kinski and Christian Quadflieg , about a love affair between a teacher and a student.

Lichtenfeld is often referred to as the inventor of the Black Forest Clinic . But the idea of ​​filming a series about a hospital in the Black Forest was born on ZDF when producer Wolfgang Rademann commissioned Lichtenfeld to write the scripts in 1985 . The mother of all German hospital series, often criticized as kitschy (the model was the Czech series Das Krankenhaus am Rand der Stadt, also shown in the West in 1978 ), became ZDF's greatest series success. Up to 25 million viewers tuned in when Professor Brinkmann ( Klausjürgen Wussow ) put on his white coat.

By the end of the Black Forest Clinic in 1988, Lichtenfeld wrote all of the scripts, although at the beginning he should only have written the first episodes. In 1987 Lichtenfeld also invented his own doctor series “ Der Landarzt ” for ZDF . The stories about the doctor Dr. Matthiesen ( Christian Quadflieg ) in the fictional town of Deekelsen ( Schleswig-Holstein ) was also successful and continued until May 2013 (from 1991 to 2009 with Walter Plathe as Dr. Teschner, from 2009 to 2013 with Wayne Carpendale as Dr. Bergmann). Until 1997, Lichtenfeld wrote the scripts for the series.

Herbert Lichtenfeld thus became one of the busiest scriptwriters on German television at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s , primarily due to the success with the Black Forest Clinic , especially for series on ZDF. He wrote u. a. for “Das Traumschiff”, “ Hotel Paradies ” (1990), “ Our Hagenbecks ” (1991) and “ Father Against Will ” (1995 / Das Erste ). Lichtenfeld also penned several successful television films. Lichtenfeld's last film (“Jugendsünde” with Harald Juhnke ) ran in the first in 2000.

Private

Herbert Lichtenfeld's grave.

Herbert Lichtenfeld lived in a house in Hamburg-Marienthal until his death . He had a son who died at the age of 22. Herbert Lichtenfeld died on December 11, 2001 and was buried next to his son in the Öjendorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herbert Lichtenfeld , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2002, May 13, 2002, accessed on November 25, 2012
  2. ^ The grave of Herbert Lichtenfeld. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenfeld, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television author
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2001
Place of death Hamburg