Günter Rohrbach
- Known For
- Production
- Born
- October 23, 1928 in Neunkirchen, Germany
- Active Years
- 1948–2023 (76 Years)
- Total Credits
- 41 credits in database
Biography
Günter Rohrbach is a German film producer born in Neunkirchen on October 23, 1928. He is known for producing the war drama Das Boot, the fantasy film The Neverending Story, and the Loriot comedies Ödipussi and Pappa Ante Portas. Rohrbach studied German literature, philosophy, psychology, and dramatics in Bonn, Paris, Munich, and Cologne, and attended the student film club in Paris. He worked as an assistant director and a studio stage manager in Saarbrücken. Beginning in 1961, he worked as an editor for the German television channel WDR and served as head of the teleplay department from 1965 to 1979. From 1979 to 1994, he was chief executive of Bavaria Atelier GmbH, and he has held a professorship at the Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film since 1992.
Career overview
Günter Rohrbach is a German film producer born on October 23, 1928, in Neunkirchen, Germany. He is perhaps most well known for producing the war drama Das Boot, the fantasy film The Neverending Story, and the Loriot comedies Ödipussi and Pappa Ante Portas.
His professional background includes working as an assistant director and a studio stage manager in Saarbrücken starting in 1950. From 1961, he worked as an editor for the German television channel WDR, where he served as headmaster of the teleplay department between 1965 and 1979. Following his tenure at WDR, Rohrbach acted as chief executive of the German production company Bavaria Atelier GmbH from 1979 to 1994.
Alongside his production and executive work, Rohrbach has held a professorship at the Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film in Munich since 1992. His educational background includes studying German literature, philosophy, psychology, and dramatics in Bonn, Paris, Munich, and Cologne during the 1950s.
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Full Filmography
41 titles- Loriot 100 (2023) as Self
- U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023) as Self
- Melting Ink (2023) as Self
- Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021) as Self - Das Boot Producer
- How Holocaust came to Television (2019) as Self
- Fassbinder (2015) as Self
- Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015) as Self
- Der weisse Äthiopier (2015) Producer
- Hotel Lux (2011) Producer
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today (2010) as Self
- Effi Briest (2009) Producer
- A Woman in Berlin (2008) Producer
- Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story (2007) as Self
- Fernsehgeschichte(n). Deutsch (2007) as Self
- The White Masai (2005) Screenplay
- The White Masai (2005) Producer
- Aimée & Jaguar (1999) Producer
- The Pharmacist (1997) Producer
- Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung (1996) as Self
- Rudy, the Racing Pig (1995) Producer
- Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994) Producer
- The Invincibles (1994) Producer
- Stalingrad (1993) Producer
- Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East (1992) Producer
- I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992) as Self
- Schtonk! (1992) Producer
- Pappa ante Portas (1991) Producer
- Go Trabi Go (1991) Executive Producer
- Blauer Panther (1989) as Self
- Silence Like Glass (1989) Executive Producer
- The Cat (1988) Producer
- Ödipussi (1988) Co-Producer
- Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy (1986) Producer
- The NeverEnding Story (1984) Co-Producer
- The Roaring Fifties (1983) Producer
- Das Boot (1981) Producer
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Producer
- Bavarian Film Awards (1979) as Self
- TV Intim (1969) as Self
- Grimme Award (1964) as Self
- Bambi (1948) as Self
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Günter Rohrbach was born on October 23, 1928 in Neunkirchen, Germany.
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Günter Rohrbach has accumulated over 41 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1948 to 2023.
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Günter Rohrbach is a German film producer born in Neunkirchen on October 23, 1928. He is known for producing the war drama Das Boot, the fantasy film The Neverending Story, and the Loriot comedies Ödipussi and Pappa Ante Portas. Rohrbach studied German literature, philosophy, psychology, and dramatics in Bonn, Paris, M...
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Age in their best-rated roles
- Bambi (1948) as Self — aged about 19
- Bavarian Film Awards (1979) as Self — aged about 50
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