Manfred Grunert

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Manfred Iwan Grunert (born February 18, 1934 in Altenburg ; † January 26, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German writer and director .

Life

Grunert studied German , Slavic and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . After his escape from the GDR in 1955, he worked for three years in West German foundries. This was followed by an internship in a publishing house . He became a specialist editor for Slavic literatures (Kindlers Literatur Lexikon ) and later a feature editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich .

Since 1970 he has been a freelance writer (novels, non-fiction books, essays), dramaturge, screenwriter (approx. 30 TV fiction films, 2 cinema films) and from 1982 as a director (5 fiction films, including Bambi for addicts ).

The first version of his novel Amerikanskij Wolp was written between 2001 and 2006 and was published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin in 2009 . He was married to the writer Barbara Bronnen until 1980 . Most recently he lived with his wife Charlott Grunert (* 1958), with whom he wrote the screenplay of Natalie II - Hell after the Baby Line in 1997 , in Gauting near Munich.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • The conditions of Alpha C. (novel, 1968 at Scherz Verlag )
  • The depraved angels (Verlag Kurt Desch, 1970 / paperback edition by S. Fischer , 1972)
  • Love is not your love Psychogram of a marriage (together with Barbara Bronnen, Verlag Kurt Desch, 1972 - translation into Italian Il tuo e amore , Garzanti 1973)
  • Amerikanskij Wolp (as Manfred Iwan Grunert) (2009)

Non-fiction

  • What is communism anyway? ( Heyne , 1967)
  • Literature and repression. Cultural policy in the SU (together with Helen Ssachno, dtv 1969)

Scripts (selection)

  • Disaster (TV movie, 1972/1973)
  • Lena Rais (cinema / feature film, 1979)
  • The Reventlow (TV trilogy 1980/81)
  • Utopia (cinema / feature film, 1982/1983)
  • Return to Germany (TV movie, 1982)
  • Isolated (TV movie, 1987)
  • The Woman of Sin ( feature film, 1994)
  • Natalie: No Going Back (Movie, 1996)
  • Orange Sun (TV Trilogy)

Authors' films (script and direction)

  • Fight Day (TV movie for May 1, 1984)
  • Addicted (1986 TV movie, Bambi Award)
  • The Gamer (TV movie, 1991)
  • Strange Eye (Interactive Internet Thriller, 2000/02)
  • Lost in Mind (feature film, nn)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Grunert died. (No longer available online.) Publishing house of the authors, archived from the original on March 12, 2011 ; Retrieved February 6, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / verlagderautoren.de
  2. ↑ Manfred Grunert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Addicted (1986). Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Grunert, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grunert, Manfred Iwan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2011
Place of death Berlin