Ines Veith

Ines Veith (* 1955 ) is a German journalist , novelist and screenwriter .

Life

Veith studied theater, film and television studies as well as philosophy and art history in Cologne . After completing her studies, she worked for two years as a journalist for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne . Since then she has worked as a freelance journalist, novelist, screenwriter and film critic, has written numerous reports for various magazines and journals and has written novels and scripts for feature films.

In 1988 it was initially self-published under the title Wo ist Dirk, Herr Honecker? a reportage novel in which she drew attention to the fate of the toddler Dirk Schiller , who disappeared in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in March 1979, and the struggle of his parents to solve the case.

This motif remained decisive for her further work. With the contemporary witness novel Give me my children back (1991) she dealt with the subject of forced adoption in the GDR. In 2006, she described the life story of Jutta Gallus in Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie . This book served as the literary model for the television film of the same name .

Ines Veith is the initiator of the Sophi-Park Bad Liebenzell , which opened in 2017. The park leads through the world of philosophy of the last 2500 years on the basis of 10 thematic fields.

Publications

Fonts (selection)

• Silk child. A Sophi Park story (illustrations: Steffi Barthel), Printsystem-Medienverlag, Heimsheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-938295-65-6 .
• The woman from Checkpoint Charlie: A mother's desperate struggle for her daughters , Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3426778326
• with Harald Glööckler : Pompöös - Harald Glööckler, der Modeprinz , Merch Movie Edition, Bad Liebenzell 2001, ISBN 978-3-98017214-1 .
• Inside the amber. Polit-Thriller , Goldmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-442-42865-6 .
• Where's dirk? Kidnapped by the STASI. A woman fights for her child , Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-442-12581-4 .

Scripts

• Inside the Amber (1995). TV-Movie / PRO 7. Co-author: Orkun Ertener. Plaza Media / PRO 7.
• The Holy Whore (1997). TV-Movie / RTL. First version of the script. Calypso / RTL.
• Laurie Pepp (2000). Comedy / feature film. Funded by the Bavarian Film Television Fund.
• The woman from Checkpoint Charlie (2006). Motion pictures. Screenplay funding from the Bavarian Film-Television Fund. Advice on scripts for the UFA / ARD TV two-part series of the same name (2006).
• Screenwalker (2006). Screenplay for a short film. Co-author: Michael Lutz.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ines Veith in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ines Veith  in the German Digital Library
• Literature review at the Hessian State Center for Political Education
• Sophi Park
• Merch Movie Edition GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ines Veith: Kurzvita , amazon.de, accessed on June 26, 2020.