German Department News

German Department Writer-in-Residence

Our Writer-in-Residence for spring semester 2000 will be Oliver Schuette. He studied film and theater in Berlin and has been a screenwriter for film and television since 1986. He won the German Screenwriting Award in 1988 for his first screenplay, Koan. Since 1990, he has been working as a Script Consultant. From 1995 on he has been the director of the Master School Drehbuch, an institution for the basic and advanced education of screenwriters, dramaturgists and producers. In 1997, he co-founded the "Script House" development agency in Berlin. He is now the author of The Art of Reading a Screenplay and is also co-author of Unternehmen Drehbuch (How to make money scriptwriting.) He teaches seminars in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. He also teaches at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Screenplays:

Koan with Peter Kramm, 1986. Deutscher Drehbuchpreis 1987.

Tote leben nicht allein with Peter Kramm and Nina Grosse, 1989. ZDF.

Look. Concept for TV-Series, 1990. ORB.

Coco&Co. Concept for TV-Series, 1990. ORB.

Zwischen Leben und Tod. Concept for TV-Series, 1991. Objektiv - Film.

Schuldig with Ralf Cordes, 1992-93. Funded by nrw.

OP ruft Dr. Bruckner. Rewrites, 1994. RTL Serie/Phoenix Film.

Down Under with Peter Kramm, 1998. Provobis.

Film Series, fall semester 2000 - UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Here is a list of this semester's films:

Date	Film Name

Native-Speaker Language Assistant

This year's language assistant is Jan Fischer, from the Humboldt Universitaet in Berlin. His office is on the second floor of ARH, and you can contact him by dialing ext. 3235 to set up an appointment.