Stefan Dähnert

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Stefan Dähnert at the premiere of the crime scene Blood Wedding at the Hamburg Film Festival 2009

Stefan Dähnert (born May 30, 1961 in Bonn ) is a German screenplay writer , playwright and director .

Life

Stefan Dähnert grew up in Cochem and is the son of professional officer Fritz Dähnert, who was stationed in Fighter Bomber Wing 33 for many years , and his wife Barbara Dähnert. He himself refused to do military service. In his own pieces, among other things, he processed experiences during his community service with old people. From 1981 to 1984 Dähnert studied theater studies , art history and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin . From 1985 to 1987 he was assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Köln and the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Dähnert has staged at other renowned theaters such as the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , where he was also the in-house author, and was a set assistant for productions by directors such as Peter Palitzsch and Ina Korff .

In 1985 the author was awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize for his first play Erbe um Erbe . It is about the struggle for survival of two old women who work as sole heirs in a nursing home. In 1986 Herbstball premiered, according to Spiegel the first play to be about the Bundeswehr. In 1988 Dähnert received the State Prize for Literature of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Stefan Dähnert has been working as a freelance writer and director since 1988 and has been increasingly active in film and television ever since. For this work he received further awards, including a promotion award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 1990 for the film Engrazia , for which he wrote and directed the book, and in 1999 the Baden-Württemberg screenplay award for What to do when it burns? His first Tatort script, Death in the Chopper , which he wrote together with Nico Hofmann , was filmed in 1991. This was followed by other scripts for television films , including Erlkönig , in which a sensational, fatal motorway accident caused by a test driver of a car manufacturer is the subject. For the Südwestrundfunk Dähnert developed the character of the Constance crime scene inspector Klara Blum , played by Eva Mattes . The SWR television film Das shared Glück, based on Dähnert's book, won the television beaver at the Biberach Film Festival in 2010 .

After many years as a lecturer in screenplay at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Dähnert was made an honorary professor in 2013 . He is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography (selection)

Works

  • Herbstball (drama), Stefan Dähnert (author): Frankfurt am Main, Verlag der Autor 1986, 88 pages, ISBN 978-3-88661-077-8

literature

  • Heribert Appelhans (Author): “Zeitgeschichtliche Bilddokumente Cochem” Volume III-1992, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89264-703-8 , Stefan Dähnert, p. 168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Dähnert, among other things the initiator of the knight round on the Winneburg, celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, In: Volksfreund January 6, 2010
  2. ↑ Personal article: Dähnert, Stefan, p. 1. Digital Library Volume 64: dtv-Lexikon Theater, p. 677 (cf. LexTheat. Vol. 1, p. 127)
  3. ↑ Arme Schlucker , Der Spiegel 43/1986, accessed on January 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Stefan Dähnert, In: Tatort Fundus
  5. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize: Previous festival winners  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 14, 2010 (PDF, 46 KB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.max-ophuels-preis.de  
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Der Murderische Erlkönig , accessed on December 17, 2012
  7. ↑ State Secretary Jürgen Walter awards honorary professorships to one lecturer and four lecturers at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from August 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmakademie.de
personal data
SURNAME Dähnert, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, playwright and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn