Fred Breinersdorfer
Fred Breinersdorfer (born 6 December 1946 in Mannheim) is a prominent German screenwriter, producer and film director.
Life
Breinersdorfer studied law and sociology from the universities in Mainz and Tübingen and received a PhD from the University of Tübingen. As a young lawyer, Breinersdorfer started a practice as an attorney at law, specializing in constitutional and administration law in Stuttgart. He lives in Berlin, Germany and has two children, Leonie, a lawyer and writer, and Julian, an architect.
Work
He wrote his first crime novel in 1980, which developed into a successful detective book and movie series about French attorney Jean Abel. In 1994, Breinersdorfer lost a close political race, running for German Federal Parliament as a SPD candidate for the party of Willy Brandt. After the race and ready for a change, he closed his law practice to become a full-time professional writer. His credits include 12 novels, a formidable list of short stories, theatrical productions, radio plays, and 65 movies and prime-time TV movies. He was the president of the German Writer's Association (VS) and is currently a member of the German P.E.N. and the Deutsche Filmakademie. Fred Breinersdorfer was awarded the German Film Award, the "Adolph Grimme Preis mit Gold" (known as the German TV Oscar), and nominated for several other awards. He became world renown as a writer and co-producer for Sophie Scholl: The Final Days when the movie was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award (Foreign Language Film).
Selected filmography
- Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (2006)
- 13 Minutes (2015)
Awards
- 1985 Walter-Serner-Preis for Pack schlägt sich (shortstory)
- 1991 Adolf-Grimme-Preis Best Writing, for Der Hammermörder
- 2003 Adolf Grimme Award, Best Writing, for Hope Dies Last
- 2003 ver.di Fernsehpreis Best Writing, for Hope Dies Last
- 2005 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Producing, for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2005 German Film Awards, Best Producing, for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2005 German Film Awards, Nomination Best Writing, for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2005 European Film Awards, Nomination Best Producing, for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2006 Academy Award (Foreign Language Film) Nomination for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2007 The 58th Annual Christopher Award, Feature Film, for Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
- 2008 Ostfriesischer Kurzfilmpreis Best Directing, Shortfilm Summersunday
- 2008 Murnau Kurzfilmpreis Best Directing, Shortfilm Summersunday
- 2010 Bernd Burgemeister Fernsehpreis Best Producing, for Der verlorene Sohn
- 2012 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- 2012 Eyes & Ears Award Best Writing, for Filmmakers in Prison der Deutschen Filmakademie
- 2014 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2015 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Producing, for 13 Minutes
External links
- Fred Breinersdorfer at the Internet Movie Database
- Personal webpage
- Fred Breinersdorfer, writer of Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, speaks with the WSWS 17 August 2006 with Richard Phillips on the World Socialist Web Site