Dieter Meichsner (Writing)

Heidi Kabel - Zwei neue Stücke zum 80. Geburtstag und ein bißchen mehr

Release Date:1994-08-27

Character:Self

The Trial

In over eight years of research, "Der Prozess" follows the longest criminal proceedings in Germany′s legal history - the "Majdanek Trial". In interviews with judges, the accused, victims and eye witnesses, and with the use of documentary footage and reports, the film recounts (in three parts) the legal trials against the workers and perpetrators of the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp from the first day to the pronouncement of the judgment.

Release Date:1984-11-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

Schwarz Rot Gold

Release Date:1982-05-12

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:7

Tarabas

An adaptation of a novel by Joseph Roth.

Release Date:1981-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Little Godard

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

Release Date:1978-06-08

Women in New York

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist, the governess, the teacher, the tailor etc. – who work for them. Naturally, the wives themselves do not pursue careers, they depend on their husbands’ money. This is why most of their thoughts revolve around the husband. And because the husband only appears as “the” man, there is no man in this film. All women fight for the same man. Those who have one, want to keep him no matter what. And those who do not have one yet only have one goal: To take away somebody else’s husband.

Release Date:1977-06-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

Die Liebe zum Land

Release Date:1975-02-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Im Fahrwasser

Release Date:1971-12-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Geschäfte mit Plückhahn

A German TV-Drama

Release Date:1971-07-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Klassenphoto

In this two-part documentary, Eberhard Fechner reconstructs the story of a class of pupils who passed their A-levels at Berlin's Lessing-Gymnasium in 1937. The starting point for the research is the class photo that gives the film its title. The conversations with the men, which revolve around their lives, bring back memories. However, it becomes clear how many of them have repressed the events of the Nazi era. Apologies, excuses and trivialization of the violence and crimes come out of many mouths.

Release Date:1971-01-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Zwei ganze Tage

Release Date:1970-12-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Gezeiten

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father and, for the sake of his wife, becomes an innkeeper ashore, but he is still driven by wanderlust.

Release Date:1970-02-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Preis der Freiheit

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …

Release Date:1966-02-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Release Date:1966-01-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date:1964-01-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Nachruf auf Jürgen Trahnke

Release Date:1962-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay