Reinhart Müller-Freienfels

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Reinhart Müller-Freienfels (born March 14, 1925 in Berlin ; † April 1, 2010 in Stuttgart ) was a German television editor, television producer and screenwriter .

Live and act

education and study

The son of the psychologist, philosopher and university professor Richard Müller-Freienfels and his wife Käte, a student councilor, attended Heinrich-von-Kleist-Oberschule in Berlin until he graduated from high school in 1942. He was then called up for military service. After his release from captivity , Müller-Freienfels studied literature, philosophy and modern history at the universities of Marburg and Frankfurt am Main from 1946 to 1954 . In 1954 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the life in Schnitzler's dramas Dr. phil.

Work at the theater and television

Müller-Freienfels already turned to the theater during his studies. From 1946 to 1948 he was an actor at the Marburg Theater, then he played at Fritz Rémonds Small Theater in the Zoo in Frankfurt until 1953 . After completing his studies, the Berliner turned to German television, which had recently been established. From 1955 to 1956 Müller-Freienfels worked as an editor at the current television of the Hessischer Rundfunk, but then returned for another five years as a dramaturge and actor at the Kleiner Theater im Zoo , where he worked until 1961. At that time he had suddenly made a name for himself in the television industry with his script for the five-part film Am grün Strand der Spree .

In 1961 he returned to television and until 1985 was head of the main television play department at Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) in Stuttgart. There he campaigned primarily for ambitious literary adaptations. In the period that followed, Müller-Freienfels succeeded in winning the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for German television. Beckett, with whom Müller-Freienfels had a lifelong friendship, supplied a number of templates for SDR productions, which Müller-Freienfels had produced as head of television games. He himself only seldom appeared as a producer or production manager (such as Dantons Tod, Die Physiker , the three-part Rebellion der Verloren and several crime scene thrillers) or as a responsible editor (such as in 1968 for Helmut Käutner's famous Bel Ami -Version with Helmut Griem in the title role or also in 1981 in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften by Claude Chabrol , again with Griem in the main role).

Reinhart Müller-Freienfels was married to the actress Irene Marhold .

Filmography

  • 1960: On the green beach of the Spree (screenplay)
  • 1962: Whoever eats from a tin bowl (screenplay)
  • 1962: Mr. Pim doesn't want to disturb (screenplay)
  • 1962: The Innocent (Production)
  • 1963: Danton's Death (Production)
  • 1963: Detective Story (Production)
  • 1964: Amédée - or the art of shoeshine (short film, screenplay)
  • 1964: The Physicists (Production)
  • 1966: attempted escape (production)
  • 1966: the beginning (production)
  • 1966: The Good Man of Sezuan (Production)
  • 1967: Fried potatoes included (production)
  • 1968: This woman for example (production)
  • 1969: Rebellion of the Lost (three parts, production)
  • 1970: Under curation (production)
  • 1971: I'm not a bird (production)
  • 1972: Crime scene: Password ferry (production)
  • 1972: end of the line (production)
  • 1974: Crime Scene: Dangerous Bugs (Production)
  • 1981: Square 1 + 2 (production)
  • 1983: Night and Dreams (Production)
  • 1983: Crime Scene: Undercover Investigation (Production)

literature

  • Who is who? The German who's who. Volume XXII. Lübeck 1983, p. 856

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Freienfels, Reinhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television editor, television producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2010
Place of death Stuttgart