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Manfred Richter (16 October 1929 – 29 September 2023) was a German writer, scriptwriter anddramaturg.
Manfred Richter was born in Dresden on 16 October 1929 as the son of a tram conductor. He first worked as a miner for theWismut company, studied acting in Dresden and Berlin and at theDEFA-Nachwuchsstudio in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Nevertheless, he later decided to become an art teacher and took his exams in Erfurt. There Richter also wrote his first work, the children's bookDas Zauberfaß (The Magic Barrel), which made him known as a young author.Louis Fürnberg became aware of him and persuaded him to study at theGerman Institute for Literature in Leipzig, which he did. Furthermore, he completed specialist training as a scenarist at theKonrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
Richter became a staff writer at theDeutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, later a dramaturge at the Landestheater in Dessau and finally a screenwriter at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films inBabelsberg. He wrote his first screenplay for the East German film production company in 1962 for and withWalter Beck [de]:Als Martin 14 war (based on a story by Hans Schönrock). After the11. Plenum des ZK der SED [de] of theSozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, he was dismissed from DEFA in the mid-1960s due to cultural-political disagreements and in 1966 was punitively transferred to Filmfabrik Wolfen as artistic director of the Kulturhaus, where he worked until 1975. Since then, he has worked as a freelance writer, interrupted by a six-year stint as a screenwriter at DEFA (1984-1990).
Richter wrote a number of scripts for about a dozen cinema and television films as well as various plays.
Richter died on 29 September 2023, at the age of 93.[1]
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