Fred Breinersdorfer

Fred Breinersdorfer is a German writer and lawyer. He has two children, Leonie, also lawyer and writer and Julian, who studies architecture in Vienna/Austria and Berlin. Fred Breinersdorfer was born in 1946, grew up in Mainz and studied law and sociology at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen. He finished his education with the doctor's degree (PHD) in 1975 at the University of Tübingen and started to practice as an attorney at law, specialized on constitutional law and administration law in Stuttgart. In 1980 Fred Breinersdorfer published his first crime novel. Others followed. The books (and later also films) with an attorney called Jean Abel as main character, a guy with a French background, became a remarkable success. Film scripts, theatre plays and short stories came out in the next years. His work contains now 12 novels, two theatre games and a long row of short stories and four radio plays. More than 55 prime time TV movies - lots of them awarded – he wrote since 1983. Fred Breinersdorfer was the president of the German Writer’s Association (VS) and he is member of the German P.E.N and the "Deutsche Filmakademie". In 1994 Fred Breinersdorfer run for office for the German Federal Parliament as a candidate of the SPD, the party of Willy Brandt. He failed closely. Fortunately, he says today. After the elections he dropped his law job (but not his licence) and became a professional writer. His hobbies are painting and running. He finished the Berlin Marathon, the New York City Marathon and in 2004 the Chicago Marathon. He was (among others) awarded with the "German Film Award", the "Adolph Grimme Preis mit Gold" (the so called German TV Oscar) and nominated for several other prices. With the Movie "Sophie Scholl - the final days" he had a world success - as writer and coproducer. The movie was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award (Foreign Language Film).