Peter Märthesheimer

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Peter Märthesheimer (born July 9, 1937 in Kiel , † June 18, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German screenwriter , film producer and novelist .

Life

Märthesheimer studied economics and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. From 1964 he was editor and dramaturge at WDR for ten years , then at Bavaria Film until 1981 . In 1994 he became professor for screenplay and dramaturgy at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . He was also a consultant for dramaturgy at the University of Television and Film Munich and the BKM .

In collaboration with Pea Fröhlich , he wrote the scripts for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder films The Marriage of Maria Braun and The Longing of Veronika Voss . He was a producer on the film Martha . Even with the TV series Eight Hours Are Not a Day and Berlin Alexanderplatz he cooperated with Fassbinder. In collaboration with Wolfgang Menge , he created the sensational television productions Das Millionenspiel und Smog and the unconventional family series Ein Herz und ein Seele .

In 2000 he published the novel I am the other . In the book he dealt with the topic of multiple personalities .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

production

script

Radio plays

  • Krupp or the invention of the bourgeois age (Production: WDR 2002)
  • Lenz or The Right Life (Production: WDR 2005)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Märthesheimer Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Märthesheimer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2004
Place of death Berlin