Lienhard Wawrzyn

Lienhard Wawrzyn (born April 2, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German author , film and television director and dramaturge .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wawrzyn studied philosophy , German literature and psychology at the Free University of Berlin under Wilhelm Weischedel and Michael Theunissen with a focus on Kant , Hegel , Schelling and the Frankfurt School .

After completing his studies, initially worked as a lecturer at the Free University (FU) Berlin. Among other things, he conducted seminars together with Rüdiger Safranski on the topics of German Romanticism , Eichendorff , ETA Hoffmann .

Wawrzyn is a graduate of the German Film and Television Academy , where he studied from 1978 to 1981. He also attended directing seminars and workshops with Krzysztof Kieślowski , Edward Zebrowski, Agnieska Holland and advanced training in screenwriting with Frank Daniel, David Howard, Don Bohlinger . In 1983, Wawrzyn received the silver ribbon at the award of the Federal Film Prize for the short film People Like Glass .

He is a founding member of the Association of German Scriptwriters (VDD) and was a member of the board for more than ten years.

Wawrzyn is married, has a daughter and lives in Berlin.

Filmography

Director (selection)

• 1982: People made of glass (also book)
• 1983: German Dreams (also book)
• 1983: The Paula puddle
• 1984: Lighter than air (together with Henning Borgelt)
• 1985: Merry X'Mas
• 1988: Rita's friend (SWR, screenplay: Norbert Ehry)
• 1994: The Blue (also book)

Scripts (selection)

• 1990: Towed (SFB, Director: Dani Levy )
• 1996–1998: OP calls Dr. Bruckner (concept and 38 scripts)
• 1997: Tatort - Eiskalt (together with Henning Borgelt)
• 1999: Tatort - The smell of money
• 2000: Tatort - The long arm of chance

Creative and supervising producer

• 2000: Creative Producer in USA and Canada for the TV series Mythquest (PBS / Show Case)
• 2003–2005: Supervising Producer Grundy UFA for the television series Julia, Weg zum Glück (ZDF) and Tessa (ZDF)

Books

Novelist

• 2009: Maxis Nights . Detective novel, Bebra Verlag Berlin. ISBN 978-3-89809-513-6 .
• 2007–2008: Rotberg's smile . Detective novel, Bebra Verlag Berlin. ISBN 978-3898095105 .

Non-fiction author and editor (selection)

• 1973: Walter Benjamin's art theory . Darmstadt, Luchterhand. ISBN 9783472770169 .
• 1974: Housing can no longer be a commodity . (together with Dieter Kramer); Darmstadt, Luchterhand. ISBN 3472611642 .
• 1975: Methodological criticism of literary instruction . Darmstadt, Luchterhand. ISBN 9783472620051 .
• 1978/1994: Der Automatmensch, ETA Hoffmann's story about Sandmann, new edition, Berlin, Wagenbach. ISBN 9783803121776 .
• 1979: Invasive photography. History, theory, projects . (together with Wolfgang Kunde ); Berlin, Verlag Ästhetik und Kommunikation. ISBN 9783882451023 .

communication

• Romantic poems. Longing for nature and love affair , new edition, Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 2002
• The blue one. The spy system of the GDR , Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 1990, ISBN 3 8031 ​​2180 9 .

editor

• 1976–1981 Wawrzyn worked as an author, editor and at times as managing director of the cultural magazine Ästhetik und Kommunikation and was responsible, among other things, for issues such as children's everyday life and children's media.

Web links

• Lienhard Wawrzyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Brief portrait of “Lienhard Wawrzyn” on: www.krimi-couch.de . Retrieved September 18, 2012.
• Author profile including filmography at: www.rowohlt-medienagentur.de. Retrieved September 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Board members since the foundation. (No longer available online.) Drehbuchautoren.de, archived from the original on October 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 9, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.