Fred Breinersdorfer

Birthday: 6 December 1946, Mannheim, Germany

Fred Breinersdorfer was born on the 6th December 1946 in Mannheim, Germany. He studied law and sociology at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen and received a PhD from the University of Tübingen. ...Show More

Fred Breinersdorfer was born on the 6th December 1946 in Mannheim, Germany. He studied law and sociology at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen and received a PhD from the University of Tübingen. As a young lawyer he specialized in constitutional and administration law in Stuttgart. He lives in Berlin, Germany and has two children, Leonie, a lawyer and writer, and Julian, an architect. He wrote his first crime novel in 1980 and further developed it into a successful detective book and movie series about French attorney Jean Abel. In 1994, Breinersdorfer lost a close political race, running for German Federal Parliament as a SPD candidate for the party of Willy Brandt. After the race and ready for a change, he closed his law practice to become a full-time professional writer. His credits include 12 novels, a formidable list of short stories, theatrical productions, radio plays, and 65 films and prime-time TV movies. He was the president of the German Writer's Association (VS) and is a member of the German P.E.N. and the Deutsche Filmakademie. He wrote and co-produced the Academy Award nominated feature film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005), which became a surprise success worldwide. Fred Breinersdorfer has received the German Film Award and the Adolf Grimme Preis and continues to write for TV and cinema. Hide