Ulrich Herrmann (screenwriter)

Ulrich Herrmann (born January 4, 1959 in Offenburg ) is a German screenwriter , publicist, television film editor and producer.

Life

Ulrich Herrmann with Eva Mattes at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

After studying history and German at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Ulrich Herrmann worked as an assistant director and dramaturge at the theater, in Freiburg and at the Hamburg German Theater . In the 1990s he wrote film and theater reviews for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Since 1994, Herrmann has been a television film editor at SWR, responsible for television films and cinema co-productions such as Toni Erdmann from Maren Ade . He was and is editor-in-chief for films in the Tatort series, with Eva Mattes as Constance Commissioner Klara Blum (until 2016), the Tatort in Ludwigshafen with Ulrike Folkerts and Lisa Bitter, in Stuttgart with Richy Müller and Felix Klare and for the one in Freiburg Tatort Schwarzwald with Eva Löbau and Hans-Jochen Wagner, based in Breisgau.

In 2004/2005 he was visiting professor at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe . From his teaching activities, combined with his experience in development work with screenwriters, his publication Stoff - Von der Idee zum Scriptwriter emerged. By means of conversations with scriptwriters, she tries to distinguish it from American, action-oriented script advisers by placing the author and the development of his characters at the center of interest.

Herrmann has been working as a freelance screenwriter since 2006. He wrote the screenplay for the RAF drama Shadow World about the confrontation of the daughter of a terrorist victim with the released perpetrator, filmed in 2007 by Connie Walther . In 2013, the night train to Lisbon with Jeremy Irons , Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Ganz came to the cinemas. Herrmann wrote the script based on the novel of the same name by Pascal Mercier together with Greg Latter.

Herrmann has been a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts since 2018 .

Scripts

• 2008: Shadow World
• 2013: Night train to Lisbon

Awards

• 2013: German television award for the television series Zeit der Helden (editorial team), in March 2014 also awarded the German Grimme Prize.
• 2016: Premio Ondas International TV Award for the film trilogy "NSU - Mitten in Deutschland" (Editor SWR, with Martina Zöllner ), which he received on November 9, 2016 on behalf of ARD (SWR, WDR, BR) in Barcelona.
• 2017: German Television Award (Best Multi-Part) for Mitten in Deutschland ; Editing of part 1 The perpetrators - Today is not every day (together with Martina Zöllner).

Publications

• Substance - from the idea to the script. Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3886612775 .

Web links

• Ulrich Herrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)