Gregor Edelmann
{{Short description|German journalist}}
Gregor Edelmann (born 1954) is a German journalist, screenwriter and dramaturge based in Berlin.{{cite web |url=http://www.deutscher-fernsehpreis.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/content_1999_Programmheft_1999_1999_15_Buch_Serie.pdf |title=Nominierungen: Gregor Edelmann|work=Der Deutsche Fernsehpreis |page=31 |date=1999 |publisher=Deutscher Fernsehpreis GmbH, Köln|accessdate=2 March 2016}}
Life
Edelmann was born in Suhl, an industrial town near Erfurt in the southern part of what was then the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). He studied Germanistics and, later, Dramaturgy. His teachers included Heiner Müller. Between 1981 and 1989, he was employed as a dramaturge for East German drama by Henschel-Theaterverlag (theatrical publishers) in Berlin.{{cite web|url=http://www.ksta.de/zur-person-gregor-edelmann-13021888|title=Gregor Edelmann|date=12 November 2009|publisher=Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger|accessdate=2 March 2016}}
Between 1988 and 2006, he lived with the actress Vera Oelschlegel. In 1990, together with the theatrical polymath {{Interlanguage link multi|André Plath|de}}, they founded the {{Interlanguage link multi|Theater des Ostens|de}} (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 1990.{{cite web|url=http://www.oelschlegel.ch/Theater-des-Ostens/|title=Vera Oelschlegel: Schauspielerin Regisseurin Dozentin ... Theater des Ostens Berlin|accessdate=23 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131025056/http://oelschlegel.ch/Theater-des-Ostens/|archive-date=31 January 2016|url-status=dead}} Various directoral assignments ensured, notably Strindberg's
Dance of Death and Racine's Phèdre.
Edelmann became a theatre critic with the Berliner Zeitung (newspaper) and started writing regularly for the mass circulation Bild-Zeitung. In 1996, he appeared as a press spokesman for Peter Zadek and Heiner Müller at the Berliner Ensemble.{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/die-neue-krimiserie--flemming--im-zdf-will-etwas-ganz-besonderes-sein-anders-als-die-anderen-14854398|title=Die neue Krimiserie "Flemming" im ZDF will etwas ganz Besonderes sein Anders als die anderen|author=Klaudia Wick|date=13 November 2009|publisher=Berliner Verlag GmbH (Berliner Zeitung)|accessdate=2 March 2016|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307034239/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/die-neue-krimiserie--flemming--im-zdf-will-etwas-ganz-besonderes-sein-anders-als-die-anderen-14854398|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.krimilexikon.de/aazeuge.htm| author1=Ulrich Mühe|author2=Gregor Edelmann (interviewee)|work=Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren|title=Der letzte Zeuge| publisher=Reinhard Jahn, Essen |accessdate=2 March 2016}} More recently, between 2009 and 2012, he wrote 15 of the 22 episodes of the innovative psycho-police drama series, Flemming.
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Category:21st-century German journalists