Herbert Lichtenfeld

Herbert Lichtenfeld ( born June 16, 1927 in Leipzig, † 11 December 2001 in Hamburg ) was one of the most successful television writers in Germany. He wrote a total of 300 scenarios according to own data. Many of his written by him series, episodes and movies were big successes.

Life

After graduation and an investigation begun studying music in Leipzig moved Lichtenfeld, who had grown up as the son of a laborer, 1950 in the Federal Republic. There he worked as a reporter for several daily newspapers. After working among others with the Badische Tageblatt in the Murg Valley and the New Rhein Zeitung in Cologne, he was Head of the television at the magazine Hörzu in the sixties. Lichtenfeld began at that time books, especially radio plays to write. Since 1968 he has worked full time as a screenwriter. His very first television film trip to Germany (1970, NDR) was awarded the prestigious Grimme Prize.

Author for crime series

A little later they started cooperation with the then-unknown director Wolfgang Petersen. Together they developed (played by Klaus Schwarzkopf ) for the ARD TV series Tatort Kiel Commissioner Finke. The thoughtful as well as refined episodes of Finke crime scenes had great success with the audience, the audience were in some cases in excess of seventy percent. The highlight was the result of secondary school leaving certificate (1977 ) with Nastassja Kinski and Christian Quad Fly, about a love affair between a teacher and a student.

While Wolfgang Petersen moved to the cinema ( The Boat) and successfully works in Hollywood, Herbert Lichtenfeld remained true to its genre. He continued to write, especially screenplays for the scene, but also for other Crime series such as The Old Man.

Even outside of the crime genre, he has authored numerous books for radio plays, television films and television series. Light field screenplays were always very exciting and rich in detail, the language to the dialog sometimes very accurate, often not without a touch of irony - wanted to know as he himself is not understood by conviction as a writer or even as a do-gooder, but the term " use author " accepted with the sentence: " How nice for an author when he is needed! ".

Successful ZDF series

Light field is often referred to as the inventor of the Black Forest Clinic. But the idea of ​​making a series about a hospital in the Black Forest was born in ZDF than in 1985 producer Wolfgang Rademann light box mandated to write the screenplays. The often criticized as cheesy mother of all hospital series became the biggest success of the series ZDF. Up to 25 million viewers tuned in as Professor Brinkmann ( Klausjürgen Wussow ) his white coat Plated.

By the end of the Black Forest Clinic 1988 Lichtenfeld wrote all the scripts, although he only the primary effects occurred at the beginning to write. 1987 invented the light field also for ZDF his own doctor series " The Country Doctor ". The stories about the doctor Dr. Matthiesen ( Christian Quadflieg ) in the fictional town Deekelsen (Schleswig -Holstein ) was also successful and will be continued up to the present ( with Walter Plathe as Dr. Teschner since 1991). Until 1997, Lichtenfeld wrote the scripts for the series.

Herbert Lichtenfeld became the late eighties / early nineties, mainly through the success of the Black Forest Clinic as one of the most sought after scriptwriters in the German television, especially for series on ZDF. He wrote, inter alia, for " The Love Boat ", "Hotel Paradise " (1990), "Our Hagenbeck " (1991). Also several successful TV movies are from the light field spring, such as " Vater wider Willen " ( 1995/ARD ). Light field last film ( " youthful indiscretion " with Harald Juhnke ) ran in 2000 in the ARD.