Magnus Vattrodt

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Magnus Vattrodt (* 1972 in Karlsruhe ) is a German writer who is best known for his scripts for ARD crime scene thrillers and the Grimme Prize .

Live and act

Vattrodt studied theater studies at the University of Gießen and then screenplay at the International Film School Cologne . He has been writing scripts for Tatort crime novels since 2006 . He wrote screenplays for other television film productions, including Der Novembermann , which was invited to several German film festivals in 2007 and won the film art award for television. For the television film script Liebesjahre (ZDF 2011, directed by Matti Geschonneck ) he was awarded the Grimme Prize and the Golden Camera in 2012.

With The End of a Night , the Vattrodt-Geschonneck team presented another TV feature film that was praised by the reviewers. It is a justice thriller, two lawyers against each other in a process similar to that in the media case Kachelmann .

In 2000 his novel Managuaspiele was published . It is about a marriage escape from the German affluent milieu in the Nicaraguan capital Managua.

Magnus Vattrodt lives with his family in Cologne .

Works (selection)

Novels
Radio plays
  • The Novembermann (length: 81'25, together with Jobst Oetzmann ). 2004 produced and first broadcast at SWR under the direction of Jobst Oetzmann ; Published by the publishing house in 2008
Scripts

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Müller in the taz of March 26, 2012: The Troubles of Justice - Courage to empty spaces, precise dialogues: Matti Geschonneck's The End of a Night
  2. ↑ Radio play profile Novembermann on Deutschlandfunk
  3. ^ Profile Vattrodt at Hartmann & Stauffacher Verlag, Cologne
  4. ↑ Review by Judith von Sternburg in the FR of December 11th, 2009: When the screen splits - A crime thriller that wants to be a tough thriller: Inspector Batic loses his memory
  5. ↑ http://www.muenster.org/filmwerkstatt/filmfestival/13/tatort-premiere.html
  6. ↑ Review by Carsten Heidböhmer in the star "Tatort" criticism Die Last der Läge
  7. ↑ Review by Markus Ehrenberg in Der Tagesspiegel from April 30, 2011: Krimi am Sonntag Money and Love
  8. ↑ Grimme Prize 2012. Accessed March 11, 2019 .
  9. ^ Website of the city of Wiesbaden: Results of the TV crime festival 2012 ( Memento from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Grimme Prize 2013. Accessed March 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vattrodt, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe