Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)
in:

Tagesspiegel ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (meaning ''The Daily Mirror'') is a German daily newspaper. It has regional correspondent offices in Washington D.C. and Potsdam. It is the only major newspaper in the capital to have increased its circulation, now 148,000, s ...

, 31 August 2017. was a German film director and writer. His film '' Lotte in Weimar'' was nominated for the

Palme d'Or The Palme d'Or (; en, Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Fe ...

at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. In 1985, his film '' Morenga'' was nominated for the

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at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the

Socialist Unity Party of Germany The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East German ...

Selected filmography

* ''

The Dress The dress was a viral phenomenon on the Internet in 2015. Viewers of the image disagreed on whether the dress depicted in a photograph was coloured black and blue, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour percept ...

'' (co-director:

Konrad Petzold Konrad Petzold (26 April 1930, Radebeul - 12 November 1999, Kleinmachnow) was a German film director, writer and actor. Biography Born the youngest of six children in a poor family, he was the son of a worker and a housewife. After an interns ...

, 1961) — (based on ''

The Emperor's New Clothes "The Emperor's New Clothes" ( da, Kejserens nye klæder ) is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects. The tale has been translated into over 100 languages.A ...

'') * ''Lots Weib'' (1965) * ''Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam'' (1966, released 1990) * ' (1968) — (based on a novel by

Johannes R. Becher Johannes Robert Becher (, 22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writin ...

) * ' (1970, TV film) — (based on a novel by

Arnold Zweig Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist and socialist. He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I. Life and work Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son ...

) * ''Anlauf'' (1971, TV film) — (based on a story by Benito Wogatzki) * ''

Her Third ''Her Third'' () is a 1972 East German (then GDR) film directed by Egon Günther and starring Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus, Rolf Ludwig and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The film is based on the short story ''Unter den Bäumen regnet es zweimal'' by Eb ...

'' (1971) — (based on a story by

Eberhard Panitz Eberhard Panitz (16 April 1932 – 1 October 2021) was a German writer, screenwriter, literary editor and publicist. He wrote epic works, documentaries, audio plays and scripts for films and television. He was committed to socialist realism, and ...

) * ''Erziehung vor Verdun'' (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by

) * ''Die Schlüssel'' (1974) * '' Lotte in Weimar'' (East Germany/West Germany, 1974) — (based on '' Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns'') * ' (1976) — (based on ''

The Sorrows of Young Werther ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (; german: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the ''Sturm ...

'') * ' (Switzerland/East Germany, 1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by

Gottfried Keller Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel '' Green Henry'' (German: ''Der grüne Heinrich'') and his cycle of novellas called ''The People from Seldwyla'' (''Die Leu ...

) * '' Exil'' (1981, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Ju ...

) * ''Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen'' (1982, TV film) — (film about

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

and Chancellor von Müller) * ''Hanna von acht bis acht'' (1983, TV film) * '' Morenga'' (1985) — (based on a novel by

Uwe Timm Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer. Life and work Uwe Timm was born in the year 1940 in Hamburg. Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died i ...

) * ''Mamas Geburtstag'' (1985, TV film) * ''Die letzte Rolle'' (1986, TV film) * ' (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by

Siegfried Lenz Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's bi ...

) * ' (1990) * ' (1991) * ''Lenz'' (1992, TV film) — (film about

and

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (23 January 1751, or 12 January in the Julian calendar – 4 June 1792, or 24 May in the Julian calendar) was a Baltic German writer of the ''Sturm und Drang'' movement. Life Lenz was born in Sesswegen (Cesvaine), ...

) * ' (1999) — (film about

and

Christiane Vulpius Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Biography Vulpius spent her childhood in ''Luthergasse'', one of the oldest parts of Weimar. Her pat ...

) * ''Else – Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau'' (2000, TV film) — (based on a novel by

Angelika Schrobsdorff Angelika Schrobsdorff (24 December 1927 – 30 July 2016) was a German writer. Life Schrobsdorff's was born the daughter of Else Kirschner (1893–1949), an assimilated Jew from Berlin, and her second husband Erich Schrobsdorff (1893–195 ...

)

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* 1927 births 2017 deaths People from Schneeberg, Saxony East German writers Writers from Saxony Mass media people from Saxony Socialist Unity Party of Germany members Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin German male writers {{Germany-film-director-stub