Max Pierre Schaeffer

Max Pierre Schaeffer (born April 13, 1928 in Essen , † March 2000 in Munich ) was a German writer and screenwriter for film and television.

Live and act

Due to the Alsatian origin of his father, the young Max Pierre Schaeffer initially had French citizenship. In the Third Reich he served as a midshipman in the German Navy. After 1945 Schaeffer worked as a journalist and freelance non-fiction author and among other things worked for the film press agency of the Hungarian-German media agent Josef von Ferenczy . Max Pierre Schaeffer was also in the service of Hörzu .

In his first novel, The Last Bite The Dogs , published in 1960, Schaeffer worked up his youth as a sea cadet, shortly afterwards he wrote several detective novels, of which Mörderspiel 1961 and 4 Keys 1965, the latter based on Schaeffer's own script, were filmed. At the end of the same decade, Schaeffer wrote a serial novel about the detectives Bob and Ellen Kent, which was published in the Neue Revue . In 1969, in turn, his crime novel Traps for Lonely Hearts was filmed under the (German) title Blonde Köder für den Köder in a German-Italian co-production with Dean Reed and Fabio Testi .

In the 1980s, Max Pierre Schaeffer published a series of reports on authentic criminal cases under the collective title Schaeffers Kriminalbibliothek, some of which were probably based on his earlier magazine publications. In the same decade (1986/87), the Munich resident wrote the scripts for three episodes of the ZDF crime series Der Alte (“The deadline”, “Alibi: Mozart” and “Death before the switch closes”). Schaeffer was married to TV announcer, author and presenter Antje-Katrin Kühnemann from 1974 to 1985 .

Works (selection)

• The last bite the dogs (1955, war novel with autobiographical features)
• Interpol sucht 4 (1960, detective novel)
• The murderer game (1961, detective novel, filmed in the same year)
• Four Keys (1962, detective novel)
• Vacation Without a Wedding Ring (1963, popular entertainment novel under the pseudonym Robert Williams)
• Adolf-Hitler-Strasse 14 (1964, war novel)
• Tomorrow you are more (1964, essay)
• The Executioner and the Women (1965, war novel)
• 4 Keys (script for the film adaptation of his crime novel from 1962)
• Love Poker (1968, detective novel)
• The Death Party (Trap for Lonely Hearts) (1969, detective novel, filmed in the same year as Blonde Bait for the Killer )
• How To Be Successful (1969, Counselor)
• The sex offender (1970, report)
• The Vera Brühne case (1979, report)
• Murderers from a Good Home (1982, detective novel)
• Der Alte (scripts for three TV crime novels)
• When women kill (1989, report)
• The Kurt Tetzner case (1990, report)

Web links

• Max Pierre Schaeffer on krimilexikon.de
• Max Pierre Schaeffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Max Pierre Schaeffer at filmportal.de