Susanne Freund (screenwriter)

Susanne Freund (* 15. March 1954 in Vienna as Susanne Egginger ) is an Austrian screenwriter and director .

Freund attended the high school Zirkusgasse in the 2nd district of Vienna Leopoldstadt and then studied chemistry at the University of Vienna . After graduating in 1979, she was responsible for organization and PR work in the Werkhaus Wien artist group; from 1984 she worked in various fields in film and theater productions; has worked as a screenwriter and director since 1990.

Her film I'm a bad guy was honored as the best German-language film at the Munich International Documentary Film Festival in 2018 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1991: Kobalek (documentary; screenplay, direction and production)
• 1992: The Secret Festival (documentary; screenplay, direction and production)
• 1993: The long shadow of melancholy (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 1994: Forward (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 1995: Cybern-Ethik (documentation; screenplay and direction)
• 1995: Banquet (feature film; screenplay)
• 1996: In the Name of God (Documentary; Screenplay and Director)
• 1996: Die Mühlkommune (feature film; screenplay)
• 1996: Papa at home alone (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 1997: Tales of the Kaisermühlenblues (documentation; screenplay and direction)
• 1998: The Raid (feature film; screenplay with Florian Flicker )
• 1998: Mute Witnesses (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 1998: Manege beautiful (documentation; screenplay and direction)
• 1999: Polt has to cry (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 1999: Blauer Dunst (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 2001: The praying mantis (feature film; screenplay with Gerda E. Grossmann )
• 2001: Zwölfeläuten (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2001: Inspector Rex - The Danube Crocodile (TV series; screenplay)
• 2003: Dallas Pashamende (feature film; screenplay with Géza Csemer and Robert Adrian Pejo )
• 2003: Leaf and Flower - Part 2 (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2004: Shadow of the Sword - The Executioner (feature film; screenplay)
• 2004: Molly and Mops (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2004: 8 × 45 Breaking the Ice (TV series; screenplay with Falk Schweikhardt )
• 2006: The Jury (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2006: Big Alma (documentary; screenplay and direction)
• 2007: Anna's second chance (TV; co-author of Sascha Bigler )
• 2008: The First Day (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2008: The Alpine Clinic - Part 4 (TV series; screenplay)
• 2009: Fear and Trembling (feature film; screenplay with Reinhard Schwabenitzky )
• 2009: The Alpine Clinic - Part 5 (TV series; screenplay)
• 2010: The Competition (TV feature film; screenplay with Katarina Bali , Ines frequent )
• 2010: The Alpine Clinic - Part 6 (TV series; screenplay)
• 2011: The Dream Hotel - Maldives (TV series; screenplay)
• 2014: Landkrimi - Steirerblut (TV feature film; screenplay with Wolfgang Murnberger )
• 2014: Clara Immerwahr (TV feature film; screenplay)
• 2015: Landkrimi - Der Tote am Teich (TV feature film)
• 2018: I'm a bad guy (documentary, director and screenplay)

Web links

• Susanne friend in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DOK.fest award for "I'm a bad guy" from Susanne Freund . Article dated May 13, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018.