Wolfgang Panzer (director)

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Wolfgang Panzer (* 1947 in Munich ) is a German film director , author and producer .

Panzer grew up in Bavaria , Turin and Lausanne . After completing his studies, he became a reporter and Tagesschau editor for Swiss television , then studied from 1970 in Munich at the University of Film and Television . During this time he was already working as a cameraman and assistant director in Germany and France. At Bavaria Atelier GmbH he managed international co-productions. Panzer has been working as a freelance writer, film producer and director since 1978.

He made the television films Aunt Maria (1979), Point Hope (1983), Liebfrauen (1985), Empty World (1987), Liebesleben (1990), In Search of Salome (1991), The Goddess of Revenge (1992), The Director (1994), Doctors (1995) and Liebesau (2001). For the crime series Tatort he realized the journey to death (1996) , deadly gallop (1997), beer war (1997), light and shadow (1999) and straight to the heart (2000).

In 2007 he shot Die Brücke , a TV adaptation of the anti-war novel of the same name by Manfred Gregor (alias Gregor Dorfmeister ) for the production company Lionheart Entertainment .

In August and September 2008 he filmed the 1998 novel Der große Kater by Swiss writer Thomas Hürlimann in Switzerland (main locations Interlaken and Bern ) . The main actors include Bruno Ganz and Marie Bäumer . The cinema release was in Switzerland on January 21, 2010, in Germany on October 28, 2010.

In 1997 Panzer received the Bavarian Film Prize (special prize) for the movie Broken Silence . Wolfgang Panzer lives with his family in Germany and Switzerland.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kino.de - Wolfgang Panzer accessed on August 28, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Panzer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich