Manfred Richter
Manfred Richter was a German writer, scriptwriter and dramaturg.
Life and career
Manfred Richter was born in Dresden on 16 October 1929 as the son of a tram conductor. He first worked as a miner for the Wismut company, studied acting in Dresden and Berlin and at the DEFA-Nachwuchsstudio in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Nevertheless, he later decided to become an art teacher and took his exams in Erfurt. There Richter also wrote his first work, the children's book Das Zauberfaß, which made him known as a young author. Louis Fürnberg became aware of him and persuaded him to study at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, which he did. Furthermore, he completed specialist training as a scenarist at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.Richter became a staff writer at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, later a dramaturge at the Landestheater in Dessau and finally a screenwriter at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films in Babelsberg. He wrote his first screenplay for the East German film production company in 1962 for and with : Als Martin 14 war. After the of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, he was dismissed from DEFA in the mid-1960s due to cultural-political disagreements and in 1966 was punitively transferred to Filmfabrik Wolfen as artistic director of the Kulturhaus, where he worked until 1975. Since then, he has worked as a freelance writer, interrupted by a six-year stint as a screenwriter at DEFA.
Richter wrote a number of scripts for about a dozen cinema and television films as well as various plays.
Richter died on 29 September 2023, at the age of 93.
Filmography
- 1964: '
- 1973: Reife Kirschen
- 1974: Der Untergang der Emma
- 1976: Ein Wigwam für die Störche
- 1982: Familienbande
- 1982: Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck
- 1986: '
- 1987: Interrogating the Witnesses
- 1991: ''Die kriegerischen Abenteuer eines Friedfertigen''
Books
- 1980: Das Ei in der Trompete. Ein Roman für Kinder, aber auch für Erwachsene, die noch wissen möchten, worauf es im Leben manchmal ankommt. Kinderbuchverlag Berlin
- 1981: Der vertauschte Vati. Kinderbuchverlag Berlin
- 2000: Der Schickedietenheimer Turm. Children book with illustrations by Manfred Bofinger; beigelegte CD mit dem Text. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst,
- 2004: Legende Lövenix. Ein ungesicherter Bericht über die Liebe und anderes Merkwürdige im Leben des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Als E-Book: Edition digital, Godern 2012,
- 2005: Jakobs Augen. Tales. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst