Peter Steinbach (screenwriter)
Peter Steinbach (born December 10, 1938 in Leipzig ; † February 6, 2019 in Svendborg ) was a German screenwriter . His specialty were radio plays and television films , but he also wrote children's and youth literature and two novels.
Life
Peter Steinbach was born in Leipzig in 1938 and grew up in Saxony . In 1954 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. He worked in a wide variety of professions, from seaman to taxi driver, before starting to write around 1975. Steinbach wrote almost 40 radio plays and was a. a. awarded the war blind radio play award. He also had great success as a film and television author: he wrote screenplays for Heimat (1984) together with Edgar Reitz . For the episode Hermännchen he received the Adolf Grimme Prize in gold in 1985 , as well as in 1986 for the entire series (together with Edgar Reitz and Gernot Roll ).
Peter Steinbach is also known for his books on Joseph Vilsmaier's movie adaptation Herbstmilch (1988) and the television film Next Week is Peace (1995).
His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
He had lived in Denmark for many years, where he died shortly after his 80th birthday.
Works (selection)
Film and television productions
- Zero hour (together with Edgar Reitz, Germany 1976)
- Germany in autumn (among others, Germany 1977/78)
- Kalte Heimat (together with Werner Schaefer, Germany 1978)
- Heimat (together with Edgar Reitz, Germany 1984)
- Herbstmilch (Germany 1988)
- Schimanski's "Tatort" blood trail (Germany 1989)
- Klemperer - A Life in Germany (Germany 1999)
- Anniversaries (together with Christoph Busch, Germany 2000)
- Just judges (Germany 2000)
- Goebbels and Geduldig (Germany 2002, also active as co-producer)
- Liebesau - The Other Home (Germany 2002)
- Amnesia (together with Susan Hoffman and Barbet Schroeder , Switzerland / France 2015)
Radio plays
- 1992: The Lord of the Rings . Prod .: WDR / SWR, ISBN 3895841811
- 1998: Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine ... - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (radio play - WDR / DLR)
- 2004: The wonderful world of Jean-Henri Fabre . Prod .: DLR Berlin, ISBN 3-937458-07-7
Fonts
- With Edgar Reitz: Heimat. A German chronicle. Script and reading book with all 658 scenes. 1988. ISBN 3-89190-899-7
- Today for money and tomorrow for free. Novel, 2012. ISBN 978-3-462-04384-6
- Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine ... Roman, 2018. ISBN 978-3-944064-94-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Steinbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Steinbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Steinbach. In: Publishing house of the authors .
- Information about the Heimat trilogy
- Comprehensive website about the Heimat trilogy including videos
- Peter Steinbach Archive. In: Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Steinbach is dead. In: verlagderautoren.de . Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Peter Steinbach Archive. Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, accessed on February 9, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinbach, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinbach, Peter Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenplay, radio play and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2019 |
| Place of death | Svendborg |