Richard Reitinger

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Richard Reitinger (* 1951 ) is a German screenwriter and artistic director of the Hamburg Media School .

Life

Reitinger was a street singer in Munich, a street worker in Berlin and a publisher ( Transit Buchverlag ). He has been writing scripts since 1985. For the cinema he wrote, among others, with Wim Wenders and Peter Handke Der Himmel über Berlin , with Wim Wenders and Ulrich Zieger In far distance, so close! , with Mika Kaurismäki Helsinki-Napoli , ChaChaCha and Amazon , with Jan Schütte Supertex and with Vanessa Jopp Meine Schöne Bescherung . For television he wrote episodes of Der Fahnder and Aufachse , various own series and series - use in Hamburg (aka "Jenny Berlin"), friends like us , the partners , plus some episodes of the series Bella Block , also individual pieces like stars shine also during the day and the world's first television game Live Movie to be broadcast live from several locations at the same time - fire in the night ( ZDF , October 25, 2004). There were also adaptations of major two-part events and films such as No Sky over Africa (ZDF, 2005) or The Secret of the Whales (ZDF, 2010) or Dschungelkind (UFA, 2010/11). Films based on his scripts received numerous awards, from the European Film Prize and the German Film Prize to Adolf Grimme Awards . City of Angels was nominated for the Golden Globe .

Richard Reitinger has been professor of screenplay at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and director of the master’s film course at the Hamburg Media School since 2007 . Under his leadership, the HMS films have since experienced more than 4000 festival performances and won over 500 national and international awards, including 2011 for Raju the Student Academy Award and in 2012 was nominated for the Oscar / Best Short Film . In 2015, Sadakat , another HMS film, won the Gold Student Academy Award. From April 2015 to December 2016 Richard Reitinger was also acting managing director of the Hamburg Media School. In October 2017, the film he was in charge of, Watu Wote - All of us, won the Gold Student Oscar and in 2018 was nominated for a Short Film Oscar.

In 2015 Richard Reitinger founded the program “Digital Media for Media Professionals with a Flight History” (DMF) program at HMS, which he runs on a voluntary basis. The program trains journalists and filmmakers who have fled from crisis areas and places them with media houses and broadcasters.

In 2019 he founded and since then has headed the master's program "Value-oriented Advertising Film" (WOW) at HMS, which aligns the effective forces of advertising with sustainability, democracy and the values ​​of the European Enlightenment.

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  1. ↑ Digital media for media professionals with a history of refugees. Hamburg Media School , accessed on February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reitinger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951