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Richard Reitinger

German screenwriter (born 1951)

Richard Reitinger
Born	1951 (age 72–73)^[1] Munich, West Germany
Occupation	Screenwriter

Richard Reitinger (born 1951) is a German screenwriter. He is known for co-writing the 1987 film Wings of Desire with Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders. As Handke submitted writings for the project, Reitinger assisted Wenders in scripting scenes around Handke's contributions.^[2] Reitinger later reunited with Wenders to write the Wings of Desire sequel Faraway, So Close! with Ulrich Ziegler,^[3] with Reitinger and Ziegler responsible for the bulk of the screenplay.^[4] Faraway, So Close! went on to win the Grand Prix at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.^[5]

Originally from Munich, Reitinger later resided in Kleinmachnow and worked as an art director at Hamburg Media School.^[1]

Filmography

His films include:^[6]

Wings of Desire (1987)
The Match Factory Girl (1990) (actor)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
City of Angels (1998) (based on Wings of Desire)
SuperTex (2003)

References

^ ^a ^b "Autorinnen und Autoren, Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber". Bertz + Fischer Verlag. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
^ Wenders, Wim (1997). "Excerpts from Interviews with Wenders". The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition. Wayne State University Press. p. 67. ISBN 0814325785.
^ Cook, Roger; Gemünden, Gerd (1997). "Filmography". The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition. Wayne State University Press. p. 262. ISBN 0814325785.
^ Fry, Carrol Lee (2008). Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film. Associated University Presses. p. 88. ISBN 978-0934223959.
^ "IN WEITER FERNE, SO NAH !". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
^ "Richard Reitinger". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.