Awards & Winners

Herbert Reinecker

Date of Birth 24-December-1914
Place of Birth Hagen
(Arnsberg, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Alex Berg, Herbert Dührkopp
Profession Writer, Screenwriter
Herbert Reinecker was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, Jungvolk. In the same year he also co-authored a book, Jugend in Waffen. This was a time when the Nazis had already been in power for three years and when the media had long been gleichgeschaltet. In 1943 he was editor-in-chief of a book entitled Der Pimpf about the training system of the Hitler Youth. Throughout World War II Reinecker served in a Propagandakompanie of the Waffen SS. In the early 1940s Reinecker also wrote a number of plays, among them Das Dorf bei Odessa and Der Mann mit der Geige. In 1944 he wrote an award-winning screenplay, Junge Adler. After the war, he started working for radio and television. At the same time he wrote screenplays for the series of German feature films of the 1960s that were loosely based on Edgar Wallace's novels as well as TV adaptations of Francis Durbridge novels and plays. In the late 1960s Reinecker and producer Helmut Ringelmann wanted to create a truly German police detective. At first tentatively conceived as a "German Maigret", Reinecker's Kommissar Keller soon metamorphosed into a full-fledged character. Erik Ode was chosen to play Keller in the TV series, Der Kommissar, which was finally launched in 1969 and which became a huge success. In 1974, Reinecker and Ringelmann started a new, similar series, Derrick.

Awards by Herbert Reinecker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Herbert Reinecker.

1955


German Film Award for Best Script
Honored for : Canaris: Master Spy

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Script Canaris: Master Spy

1953


German Film Award - Film Dealing Outstandingly with Social Problems
Honored for : Weg in die Freiheit

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award - Film Dealing Outstandingly with Social Problems Weg in die Freiheit