Egon Günther Explained

Egon Günther
Birth Date:	30 March 1927
Birth Place:	Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Death Place:	Potsdam, Germany
Occupation:	Film director Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1961 – 2002

Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)^[1] was a German film director and writer.

His film Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] In 1985, his film Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Selected filmography

• The Dress (co-director: Konrad Petzold, 1961) — (based on The Emperor's New Clothes)
• Lots Weib (1965)
• Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam (1966, released 1990)
• (1968) — (based on a novel by Johannes R. Becher)
• (1970, TV film) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
• Anlauf (1971, TV film) — (based on a story by Benito Wogatzki)
• Her Third (1971) — (based on a story by Eberhard Panitz)
• Erziehung vor Verdun (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
• Die Schlüssel (1974)
• Lotte in Weimar (East Germany/West Germany, 1974) — (based on )
• (1976) — (based on The Sorrows of Young Werther)
• (Switzerland/East Germany, 1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by Gottfried Keller)
• Exil (1981, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger)
• Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen (1982, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Chancellor von Müller)
• Hanna von acht bis acht (1983, TV film)
• Morenga (1985) — (based on a novel by Uwe Timm)
• Mamas Geburtstag (1985, TV film)
• Die letzte Rolle (1986, TV film)
• (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Siegfried Lenz)
• (1990)
• (1991)
• Lenz (1992, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
• (1999) — (film about Goethe and Christiane Vulpius)
• Else – Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (2000, TV film) — (based on a novel by Angelika Schrobsdorff)

Notes and References

1. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/regisseur-und-schriftsteller-egon-guenther-ist-tot/20266316.html Egon Günther ist tot
2. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Lotte in Weimar . 28 April 2009 . festival-cannes.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926154557/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2163/year/1975.html . 26 September 2012 .
3. Web site: Berlinale: 1985 Programme . 9 January 2011 . berlinale.de.