Herman Weigel
Herman Weigel ( born March 22, 1950 in Moers ) is a German film producer and screenwriter.
Mid-1970s, he graduated from the University of Television and Film Munich.
His debut as a screenwriter, he was in 1976 with the Ludwig Anzengruber adaptation Sternsteinhof ( Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer ). In the same year he began his fruitful collaboration with director Uli Edel, with the episode The postmaster within the TV - movie The stories Bjelkins after Pushkin. With precious as a director of the 1978 TV miniseries was The Thing.
His first international success was Weigel in 1981 as a screenwriter of the film Christiane F. - We Children from Bahnhof Zoo recorded. Again led by Uli Edel directed.
In 1984 he wrote the screenplay of the film version of Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story (directed by Wolfgang Petersen ). Next Weigel wrote, among other screenplays for the films Charley's Aunt (1996, directed by Sönke Wortmann ) and Autobahnraser ( 2004).
As co - producer or producer, he worked among others in The Name of the Rose (1986 ), the two - Uli Edel films Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) and Body of Evidence (1993 ), the animated films Werner - Beinhart! (1990) and Werner - Beinhart is later! (2003) and the television miniseries Vera Brühne (2001, filming of the criminal case by Vera Brühne, written and directed by Hark Bohm ).
The actor and comedian Tom Gerhardt Herman Weigel worked as a producer along with the movies full normaaal (1994 ), Ballermann 6 (1997) and Siegfried (2005, also a screenwriter ). Also with Tom Gerhardt he is the initiator and one of the authors regularly broadcast since 1999 television comedy series Hausmeister Krause - order must be.