Lea Schmidbauer

Lea Schmidbauer (born December 20, 1971 in Starnberg ) is a German author . She writes screenplays for film and television as well as books for young people.

Life

Lea Schmidbauer studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich , where she graduated in 2004 with the short film comedy Reality Check , which was co-produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and arte . She became known as the author of the movie comedy Groupies Don't Stay for Breakfast (2010) and the Ostwind movies (2012-2020). All Ostwind novels that you Some of them wrote about the movies together with Kristina Magdalena Henn and became bestsellers.

In 2017 she also wrote the scripts for all eight episodes of the Austrian drama series Trakehnerblut , which was shown on ARD under the title Gestüt Hochstetten .

In 2019 she took over the directing of the film adaptation of the last part of her Ostwind series, "Ostwind - The Great Storm", which was due to be released in cinemas in spring 2020. A start date for the film is currently not known. ^[outdated]

Lea Schmidbauer lives and works in Munich. Her father is the psychologist and writer Wolfgang Schmidbauer .