Manfred Purzer

Manfred Purzer (born April 13, 1931 in Munich ) is a German journalist , film director and screenwriter who often used the pseudonyms Ernst Flügel or Hans Hasenow .

life and career

After studying literature, psychology and philosophy, Purzer began his journalistic work for the Neue Zeitung a few years after the end of the war in Munich . In 1951 he accepted a scholarship from the evening newspaper at the Werner Friedmann Institute .

In 1952 he became editor at Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH, which produced the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau in Hamburg , and shot his first short documentaries for Die Welt im Bild . For some time he worked as production manager for the documentary film division at UFA . In 1958 he was promoted to editor-in-chief and managing director of the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau.

In 1965 Purzer returned to Munich to take up the position of production manager and managing director of Nora-Film there. Since 1966 Purzer has worked as a freelance writer, who has been writing film scripts since 1968, initially under the pseudonym "Ernst Flügel". He provided all the scripts for the successful Simmel adaptations produced by Luggi Waldleitner , and he also wrote the stories for some of the sex films typical of the 1970s.

From the mid-1970s onwards, Purzer directed several films himself. He staged Das Netz based on a novel by Hans Habe , The Elixirs of the Devil based on ETA Hoffmann and Der Mann im Schilf based on George Saiko.

In 1974 Purzer was a member of the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival . From 1974 to 1977 he was chairman of the project committee of the film funding agency . He was managing director of the Münchner Gesellschaft für Kabelkommunikation, founded the Medientage München in 1987 and organized it until 1998.

Honors

• 1983: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Filmography as a screenwriter (selection)

1955: Dance, a film about the muse Terpsichore 1956: Ethiopia, Empire between Yesterday and Tomorrow (also co-director) 1963: Germany greets Kennedy (director only) 1968: Come on, my dearest bird 1969: seven days deadline 1969: Herzblatt or How do I tell my daughter? 1970: The yellow house on Pinnasberg 1970: Perrak 1970: the females 1971: And Jimmy went to the Rainbow 1971: The new hot sex report - What men don't think is possible 1971: love is just a word 1971: Student report 1972: The stuff dreams are made of 1972: And the rain blurs every trace 1973: All people become brothers

1973: God protects the lovers 1974: Three men in the snow 1974: One of us both 1974: Only the wind knows the answer 1975: To the bitter end 1975: Das Netz (also director) 1976: The Devil's Elixirs (also director) 1978: The Man in the Reeds (also director) 1981: Lili Marleen 1982: The devil breaks loose in the jungle 1983: Randale (also director) 1983: How would you like it? 1989: the bastard 1993: King of the Last Days (two-part) 1993: The Elephant Bride

Web links

• Manfred Purzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data of Manfred Purzer in: "Lass light!": Peter Rühmkorf between enlightenment, romanticism and national wealth , by Jan Bürger, Stephan Opitz, Wallstein Verlag GmbH, 2010, page 50