Günter Kunert
Writing · Dialogue · Screenplay · Writer
Born Mar 6, 1929 · Berlin, Germany
Active 1953–2019 · Awards: Mainz resident writer, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, America Award in Literature, Heinrich Heine Prize, Heinrich Mann Prize, Stadtschreiber von Bergen, Georg Mackensen Literary Prize, Ernst Robert Curtius Award
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertolt Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED…
Filmography
Endstation Harembar (1992) — WriterMonolog für einen Taxifahrer (1990) — WriterEine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin (1986) — DirectorThe Return of the Time Machine (1984) — ScreenplayUnterwegs nach Atlantis (1977) — WriterBeethoven - Days in a Life (1976) — WriterBerlin mit Unterbrechungen (1976) — WriterKarpfs Karriere (1971) — WriterFarewell (1968) — WriterFrauen von Ravensbrück (1968) — DialogueMemento (1966) — StoryVom König Midas (1963) — WriterThe Second Track (1962) — WriterFetzers Flucht (1962) — WriterGuten Tag, lieber Tag (1961) — WriterSeilergasse 8 (1960) — WriterDas Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte (1953) — Writer