Wolfgang Ebeling (screenwriter)
Wolfgang Ebeling (born March 25, 1929 in Halle ) is a former German screenwriter and dramaturge .
Live and act
Ebeling attended high school and studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1947 to 1949 . He then moved to the Weimar Theater Academy , where he completed his training with a diploma in 1952. He then worked as head dramaturge in Gera and at the State Theater in Halle. In 1955 he became dramaturge at DEFA - Studio for Feature Films in Potsdam-Babelsberg and in 1961 head of the department for contemporary drama at television in Berlin. In 1963 and 1964 he was involved in setting up the Halle television studio. From 1964 he worked again as a scriptwriter in the DEFA studio for feature films and lived in Berlin.
Ebeling worked as a television and film writer. Among other things, he wrote the script for his post-war drama Five Days - Five Nights , the first co-production between the GDR and the Soviet Union, together with Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam in 1959 . His first television play, The Gift , he wrote in 1961. Ebeling was also involved in the scripts of DEFA Indian films such as Chingachgook, the great snake (with Richard Groschopp ) and Blood Brothers (with Dean Reed ).
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: two mothers
- 1957: Polonia Express
- 1958: Block on the leg
- 1961: Five days - five nights
- 1962: If I had known ... (TV movie)
- 1967: Chingachgook, the big snake
- 1969: Not with me, madam!
- 1970: In the field of tension
- 1971: Playful home
- 1972: Love is loud and quiet
- 1972: Be an anvil or a hammer
- 1972: All cats are gray at night (TV movie)
- 1972: Tecumseh
- 1975: blood brothers
- 1976: hostess
- 1976: So many songs, so many words
- 1977: El Cantor (TV movie)
- 1979–1981: The prosecutor has the floor (TV series, 3 episodes)
Web links
- Wolfgang Ebeling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfgang Ebeling at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Ebeling, Wolfgang In: Günther Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Paul-Günter Krohn: Writers of the GDR. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1975. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 138.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebeling, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall |