Kai Hafemeister

Kai Hafemeister (* 1972 in East Berlin ) is a German screenwriter .

Live and act

Hafemeister studied German and philosophy, after completing his studies he found his way to the theater and started working as a freelance screenwriter and dramaturge in the mid-1990s . In 1998 he founded Cyclops Eye, a company that develops screenplays for film and television. Hafemeister won the Screenplay Award at the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival in 2005 for his screenplay on Innocence , and in 2008 it was filmed by Andreas Morell .

George was published in 2013 , Götz George plays the role of his father during the Nazi era, Hafemeister delivered the script for the film together with director Joachim Lang . Also in 2013, at the Hamburg Film Festival , Banklady celebrated its premiere, and Hafemeister also wrote the script for this based on the life of the bank robber Gisela Werler . In 2019 he was involved in the writers' room for the Netflix original series Wir sind die Welle under head author Jan Berger .

Publications (selection)

Filmography

• 2008: innocence
• 2010: Tatort: ​​Borwoski and a question of taste (TV series)
• 2013: George
• 2013: Banklady
• 2013: The Wagner clan. A family story
• 2014: Everything has to go - a family does the accounts (TV multi-part)
• 2017: Between Heaven and Hell (TV multi-part)
• 2017: The Barcelona Crime (TV series, episode 1)
• 2019: We Are the Wave (TV series, four episodes)

Radio plays

• 2006: James Graham Ballard : Skyscraper (3 parts) adaptation (word); Speaker: Man Left Behind - Director: Paul Plamper (radio play adaptation , science fiction radio play - WDR ).

Awards (selection)

International Film Festival Emden-Norderney 2005

• Winner in the Script for Innocence category

Grimme Prize 2020

• Nomination in the fiction category for We Are the Wave

Web links

• Kai Hafemeister at Crew United
• Kai Hafemeister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kai Hafemeister in the database of Filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARD audio game database (high-rise building (1st part), WDR 2006)
2. ↑ Jochen Müller: "Another League" wins the main prize in Emden. Blickpunkt Film, June 6, 2005, accessed July 30, 2020 . 
3. ↑ We are the wave (Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Sony Pictures Film und Fernseh Produktions GmbH for Netflix). Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .