Michael Meisheit
Michael Meisheit (born June 29, 1972 in Cologne ) is a German screenwriter and book author . Since summer 2013 he has also been publishing under the pseudonym Vanessa Mansini .
Life
Michael Meisheit studied teaching for special needs education in Cologne from 1993 to 1995. He then began studying film and media with a focus on screenwriting at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg . After the director and Lindenstrasse inventor Hans W. Geißendörfer had given a seminar at the film school, the 24-year-old student wrote test scripts that he gave to the producer. Michael Meisheit has been an author for the ARD series Lindenstrasse since 1997 . His first episode was returnees (episode 651). The last episode he wrote, "Never goes so well" (episode 1662) was broadcast on February 18, 2018.
In 2006 and 2007 Meisheit worked next to Lindenstrasse as a future developer, storyliner, story editor and dialog book author for the telenovela Rote Rosen . He was also the co-author of two film academy short films, Andreas Linkes Egal, wie and Hagen Winterhoff's coming-of-age story Heroes in Wellington Boots .
In 2011 Michael Meisheit wrote the screenplay for Christoph Schrewe's TV film Then Lucy starred with Julia Jäger and Heio von Stetten .
Michael Meisheit wrote the blogroman Vanessa X. in 2011 , the fictional story of a married woman from Kreuzberg who met an alien and quickly fell into a turmoil of love. The novel from August 2011 to February 2012 about the daily madness with the man from the other star is a mixture of fiction and reality. In 2013, Meisheit published the novel as an e-book under the pseudonym Vanessa Mansini under the title Not from this world - without a publisher. The e-book sold almost 30,000 times and won the Leipzig Book Fair's Indie Author Award .
In 2012, Meisheit's debut novel Soap was published , which uses the life and in particular the work of a young series writer for a fictional TV series to give the reader a glimpse behind the scenes of a series production. Meisheit made use of a blog in order to be able to influence aspects of the novel and its publication during the preparation of the manuscript.
Meisheit was a member of the federal board of Amnesty International from 1995 to 1998 .
Michael Meisheit is married to the dubbing and radio play speaker Yesim Meisheit , has two children and lives in Berlin .
Other works
- There's always something , short text collection, 2013
Under the pseudonym Vanessa Mansini :
- In the Wrong Film , Parts 1 to 6, sequence of novels, 2013–2014
Web links
- Michael Meisheit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Author's website Michael Meisheit
- Michael Meisheit Lindenstrasse
- In love with an alien - article on Michael Meisheit's blogroman in Tagesspiegel
- Bridget Jones meets an alien
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mastery, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |