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Gregor Edelmann

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Gregor Edelmann (born 1954) is a German journalist, screenwriter and dramaturge based in Berlin.[1]

Life

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Edelmann was born in Suhl, an industrial town near Erfurt in the southern part of what was then the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He studied Germanistics and, later, Dramaturgy.[1] His teachers included Heiner Müller.[1] Between 1981 and 1989, he was employed as a dramaturge for East German drama by Henschel-Theaterverlag (theatrical publishers) in Berlin.[2]

Between 1988 and 2006, he lived with the actress Vera Oelschlegel. In 1990, together with the theatrical polymath André Plath [de], they founded the Theater des Ostens [de] (Theatre of the East) which for nearly two decades recalled and celebrated the theatrical traditions of the separate Germany that had come to an end in 1990.[3] Various directoral assignments ensured, notably Strindberg's Dance of Death and Racine's Phèdre.

Edelmann became a theatre critic with the Berliner Zeitung (newspaper) and started writing regularly for the mass circulation Bild-Zeitung. In 1996, he appeared as a press spokesman for Peter Zadek and Heiner Müller at the Berliner Ensemble.[4] The focus of his subsequent work has been on screenwriting. He is the creator of the long-running television crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The last witness) on which he worked intensively between 1996 and 2006.[5] More recently, between 2009 and 2012, he wrote 15 of the 22 episodes of the innovative psycho-police drama series, Flemming.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Nominierungen: Gregor Edelmann" (PDF). Der Deutsche Fernsehpreis. Deutscher Fernsehpreis GmbH, Köln. 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Gregor Edelmann". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Vera Oelschlegel: Schauspielerin Regisseurin Dozentin ... Theater des Ostens Berlin". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b Klaudia Wick (13 November 2009). "Die neue Krimiserie "Flemming" im ZDF will etwas ganz Besonderes sein Anders als die anderen". Berliner Verlag GmbH (Berliner Zeitung). Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  5. ^ Ulrich Mühe; Gregor Edelmann (interviewee). "Der letzte Zeuge". Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren. Reinhard Jahn, Essen. Retrieved 2 March 2016.