Katja Röder

Katja Röder (born November 16, 1975 in Coburg ) is a German author and actress .

Life

Röder was born in Coburg as the daughter of a teacher couple. She graduated from high school in Ebern, Franconia, and then studied philosophy in Munich and law in Erlangen . After dropping out of her studies, she completed an acting training in Munich from 2003 to 2006. She has been living as an author in Berlin since 2008 . She is married to the screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer .

Author

So far, Röder has written six radio crime scenes, three of them together with Fred Breinersdorfer , and the play "The Devil and the Diva", in which Judy Winter played the leading role. As a film author, in 2010 she received a grant from the program “ MINT and Equal Opportunities in Fictional TV Formats” with the film project “Measles Party” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

Her first full-length TV film A child is wanted with Heino Ferch , Silke Bodenbender , Johann von Bülow u. a. in the main roles, directed by Urs Egger , premiered on September 22, 2017 as part of the Tatort Eifel festival and was broadcast on arte on December 15, 2017 . In Germany it achieved a market share of almost 6% and 1,814,000 viewers. In France there were 1,259,000 viewers for “Un enfant disparaît”, which corresponds to a market share of 5.1%. In both countries this was the best annual value on this program place and in Germany it is in second place on the "eternal list". The film was awarded the audience award of the German Television Crime Award 2018 for Heino Ferch as best male actor, nominated for the award of the German Academy for Television and by ARTE for the competition of the television film festival Baden-Baden . In 2019, her script was awarded the Christian Golden Compass Media Prize. The second film with Heino Ferch as Commissioner Ingo Thiel , “ The Trace of Murderers ”, was shown on October 18, 2019 on arte with a viewership of 1,156,000.

Radio plays

• 2012: Radio Tatort, Tödliche Kunst , SWR, - co-author: Fred Breinersdorfer , director: Walter Adler
• 2013: Radio Tatort, Der Schläfer , SWR, - co-author: Fred Breinersdorfer, director: Walter Adler
• 2013: Radio Tatort, Anatomy of Death , SWR, - co-author: Fred Breinersdorfer, director: Walter Adler
• 2014: Radio Tatort, Grauzone , SWR, director: Mark Ginzler
• 2016: Radio Tatort, Death in the Sixteen , SWR, directed by Alexander Schuhmacher
• 2018: Radio Tatort, In the Kingdom of Germany , SWR, directed by Alexander Schuhmacher
• 2019: Radio Tatort, The Dark Net , SWR, Director, Alexander Schuhmacher

Movie

• 2017: Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer : A child is wanted , directed by Urs Egger , premiere 22 September 2017, Tatort Eifel , ZDF 2017
• 2019: Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer: The Trace of Murderers , directed by Urs Egger, premiere October 18, 2019, ARTE
• FESTIVALS
  • 2017 Tatort Eifel , A child is wanted , September 22, 2017
  • 2018 German TV Crime Festival , A child is wanted, in Wiesbaden, March 9, 2018
  • 2018 Film Festival Kitzbühel, a child is wanted , August 25, 2018
  • 2018 Baden-Baden TV Film Festival , Looking for a child, November 15, 2018

Play

• 2013: Katja Röder and Fred Breinersdorfer : The Devil and the Diva , world premiere March 7, 2013, Ernst Deutsch Theater , Hamburg

Summer 2013 Theater am Kurfürstendamm

November 2013 to February 2014 Theater Rudolstadt

Award

• 2018 Audience Award of the German Television Crime Award for One Child is wanted
• 2019 Christian media award Golden Compass for the screenplay for A child is wanted

Web links

• Katja Röder homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collective work: MINT and equal opportunities in fictional television formats . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Education and Research. S. 87 .
2. ↑ Golden Compass for the screenplay A child is wanted
3. ↑ https://www.agf.de/daten/tvdaten/hitliste/ , about the film u. a. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/084658-000-A/die-spur-der-moerder/
4. ↑ SWR2: ARD radio crime scene "Death in the sixteen". Retrieved August 2, 2016 .