Gregor Edelmann (born 1954) is a German journalist, screenwriter and

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

based in Berlin.

Life

Edelmann was born in

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, an industrial town near Erfurt in the southern part of what was then the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He studied

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and, later, Dramaturgy. His teachers included

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. Between 1981 and 1989, he was employed as a

for East German drama by Henschel-Theaterverlag (theatrical publishers) in

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. Between 1988 and 2006, he lived with the actress

Vera Oelschlegel Vera Franziska Oelschlegel (born 5 July 1938) is a German actress, singer, artistic director, drama director and professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a celebrity in East Germany before 1989. After that, from 1 ...

. In 1990, together with the theatrical polymath , they founded the (Theatre of the East) which for nearly two decades recalled and celebrated the theatrical traditions of the separate Germany that had come to an end in

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. Various directoral assignments ensured, notably Strindberg's Dance of Death and Racine's

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. Edelmann became a theatre critic with the

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(newspaper) and started writing regularly for the mass circulation

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. In 1996, he appeared as a press spokesman for

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and

at the

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. The focus of his subsequent work has been on screenwriting. He is the creator of the long-running television crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The last witness) on which he worked intensively between 1996 and 2006. More recently, between 2009 and 2012, he wrote 15 of the 22 episodes of the innovative psycho-police drama series,

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