Stefan Kolditz

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Stefan Kolditz (* 1956 in Kleinmachnow ) is a German writer , playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Stefan Kolditz is the son of the successful DEFA film director Gottfried Kolditz . After graduating from high school, Kolditz did his military service in the border troops of the GDR . In 1987 he finished studying drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin , where Kolditz later three years (on the German silent film from 1895 to 1913. investigation for change of perception wise ) doctorate was. Here he also worked as a lecturer as well as at film schools in Ludwigsburg, Hamburg and Berlin. He also worked as a dramaturge at the theater, where he soon wrote his own works. His first work Eva - Hitler's Beloved , which was premiered in 1996 with Corinna Harfouch at the Berliner Ensemble , was quite convincing in critical circles.

He has also been writing screenplays for film and television productions since the mid-1980s. The film script for Michael Kann's comedy The Distance Between You and Me and Her earned him the script award at the 5th GDR National Feature Film Festival in 1988 . Several episodes of the crime series Tatort and Polizeiruf 110 come from his pen, on which he worked with television producer Thomas Wilkening . The television production An die Grenz (2007), in which Kolditz processed his own experiences with the border troops (including the shooting of two border guards by the NVA deserter Werner Weinhold at the end of 1975), received a lot of attention . He also wrote the screenplay for two teamWorx multi-part series broadcast on ZDF : Dresden (2006), about everyday life and the fall of the Elbe city in 1945, and Our Mothers, Our Fathers (2013). Kolditz wrote the screenplay with Schimmelpfennig for the television film Die Frau von alten (2013), which is based on the play of the same name by Roland Schimmelpfennig .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regine Sylvester: Stefan Kolditz: The head from which the pictures come. In: fr-online.de. March 13, 2013, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Now there's something on your face. Author Stefan Kolditz is an expert on contemporary history in the TV industry. Berliner Zeitung , October 29, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Kolditz, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinmachnow , Potsdam District, German Democratic Republic