Thorsten Wettcke

Thorsten Wettcke (* 1974 in Karlsruhe ) is a German screenwriter and director .

biography

He grew up in Rastatt and has been a videographer since his school days . Wettcke studied journalism and film studies . However, he broke off his studies after two semesters in order to devote himself to practice. He got the first chance to do so from the Hamburg company, Desert Film , with which he made both the short film “Rosenfalle” and his feature-length feature film debut, A Divine Job . Another independently produced feature film followed in 2007 with "Sunny", for which Wettcke won the script award at the Brooklyn Film Festival .

Wettcke is a sought-after screenwriter in the TV business. He wrote several films for the ZDF series “ Rosa Roth ” and the Sat1 novel adaptation “The Midwife”.

With his business partner Christoph Silber , who lives in Los Angeles , Wettcke wrote numerous TV thrillers, e. For example, the critically acclaimed Hamburg crime scenes “Investigative” and “ On the sunny side ” as well as the Münster crime scene “ Between the ears ” for Germany's most popular investigative duo Jan Josef Liefers and Axel Prahl . As chief authors, Wettcke and Silber developed the character of the crime scene investigator Cenk Batu , embodied by Mehmet Kurtuluş , with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk . For this work they won the audience award of the Marler Gruppe at the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2009 . Their joint ZDF film project Das Wunder von Kärnten earned them the Romy for Best Screenplay in 2012 and won the international Emmy in 2013 in the category “Best TV Film / Best Miniseries”.

Filmography as author and co-author (selection)

movie theater

• 1998: Die Rosenfalle (also director)
• 2001: A divine job (also directing)
• 2004: Romeo & Juliet and the New World Order (short film, also director)
• 2004: The Ring Thing
• 2007: Sunny (also director)
• 2007: Good Vibrations (short film)
• 2014: To life!

watch TV

• 1998: Mobbing Girls (TV series)
• 2006: Tatort - shadow plays
• 2007: Tatort - Investigative
• 2007–2010: Der Kriminalist (TV series, various episodes; chief author)
• 2008: Tatort - On the sunny side
• 2009: crime scene - pig money
• 2010: Rosa Roth : The offer of the day
• 2011: Tatort - Between the ears
• 2011: Rosa Roth : Trauma
• 2011: The Key Witness - Murder in the Mountains
• 2012: The miracle of Carinthia
• 2015: The Wallensteins - Dresden Demons
• 2015: Tatort - Swan Lake
• 2015: The dead from Lake Constance - family secret
• 2017: Tatort - God is only human
• 2019: Walpurgis Night - The Girls and Death
• 2019: We are the wave
• 2019: Crime scene: liquorice
• 2019: Police call 110: death of a journalist

Awards and nominations

• 2007: Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Screenplay for Sunny
• 2009: Golden Camera , nomination for Best Film for Tatort: ​​On the Sunny Side
• 2009: Civis Media Prize , nomination for Tatort: ​​On the sunny side
• 2009: Audience award of the Marler Gruppe at the Adolf Grimme Prize for the show Tatort: ​​Auf der Sonnseite (together with Mehmet Kurtuluş , Christoph Silber , Richard Huber and Martin Langer )
• 2011: Hamburger Filmfest , nomination for the producer's award in the “16: 9” section for Das Wunder von Kärnten
• 2012: Romy : Best screenplay for TV film for Das Wunder von Kärnten
• 2013: International Emmy: Best TV Film The Miracle of Carinthia

Web links

• Thorsten Wettcke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Thorsten Wettcke at filmportal.de
• Tatort Interview (Tatort Fundus 10/2008)