Thomas Leutzbach

Thomas Leutzbach (* 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German radio play director .

Life

Thomas Leutzbach studied German, computer science and philosophy in Cologne. For a time he belonged to the ensembles of various independent theater groups before joining Westdeutscher Rundfunk radio in 1990 . There he initially worked as an assistant director, and since the mid-1990s he has been responsible as a director in a large number of radio play productions. Among other things, he directed the first three radio crime scenes produced by WDR .

Directorial work (selection)

• 1995: An oasis - birds undesirable
• 1995: Goebbels & Guzzi. A tattoo
• 1995: The Rat King
• 1996: A body in the trunk
• 1996: The house in the wind
• 1996: The chip shop
• 1997: The Moors Last Sigh (based on the novel by Salman Rushdie )
• 1997: The night of the twin
• 1997: The Chaos Apostles - missa fragmentarum brechtiana
• 1998: wrong-way driver
• 1998: Ice cold in the galaxy
• 1998: laundry room
• 1999: The story of the bowl and the spoon
• 1999: Salzburg in London
• 1999: Victorville
• 2000: Who is afraid of Mother Greul?
• 2000: Wyatt Earp on Mallorca
• 2000: The twelve red bunnies
• 2001: The echo of the frogs
• 2001: Midsummer murder
• 2001: The first Schlemihl
• 2002: The language of the bats
• 2002: into the heart of the night
• 2002: Junk shop stories (various episodes)
• 2003: Just a small suitcase
• 2003: Confessions from a chef
• 2003: The JFK complex
• 2004: Me and Kaminski
• 2004: On free feet
• 2004: The cross on the Erlenberg
• 2005: Handbook for the Russian debutante
• 2005: Canossa
• 2005: Johannes and Stachel discover treasures
• 2006: Death in Las Vegas
• 2006: Hector - The Hostage Show
• 2006: The monkey
• 2007: Chickens are allowed to stay seated
• 2007: The Kennedy Coin
• 2007: a perfect life
• 2008: The Emir (radio crime scene)
• 2008: The deed happens on the radio
• 2008: Sea of ​​Illusions
• 2008: Johannes and Stachel make a film
• 2008: matter of negotiation (radio crime scene)
• 2009: The gladiators crash
• 2009: knee deep in Chelsea
• 2009: enemies of the state
• 2009: War of the Shadows
• 2010: Breakfast with Stalin
• 2010: The woods by the river
• 2010: bunker
• 2011: The Whisperer
• 2011: Mia Milestone (6 episodes of the 1st season)
• 2011: He who kills acts
• 2012: back to concrete
• 2012: One day of life in NRW - Radio Recall
• 2012: futur III
• 2013: Faith, Love, Mafia
• 2013: Sometimes mushrooms are just mushrooms
• 2013: The bee-eater's trail
• 2014: fatally injured
• 2014: They should live high!
• 2014: Attack of the terror zombies
• 2015: Luz
• 2015: Doberschütz and the balance of horror
• 2015: Your work, your life - probationary period
• 2018: Moabit

Awards

The radio play Midsummer Murder , produced in 2001 based on the novel of the same name by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell , received the 2008 Radio Eins Radio Drama Audience Award .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait from the Random House publishing group , accessed on October 5, 2015