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name: "Edgar Reitz"
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tmdb_id: 72908
wikidata_id: "Q64392"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 November 1932"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:17.152013+00:00"
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# Edgar Reitz

## Identity

Edgar Reitz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edgar-reitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edgar-reitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0718671
- **TMDB ID:** 72908
- **Wikidata ID:** Q64392
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Reitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64392, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718671/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72908

Producer and director. Born 1 November 1932 in Morbach, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 November 1932, Morbach, Germany
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Reitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64392, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718671/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72908

## Biography

Edgar Reitz is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Born in 1932 in Morbach in the Hunsrück region, he studied German, journalism, art history and theatre in Munich before working as a camera, editing and production assistant from 1953. He was a signatory of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto and co-founded the Institute for Film Design at the Ulm School of Design, where he taught.

Reitz is best known for the *Heimat* series, beginning with the eleven-part *Heimat* (1984), on which he served as director, writer, story author, screenwriter, creator and producer. The epic chronicle of life in a fictional Hunsrück village spans much of the twentieth century and was followed by further instalments, including *Die zweite Heimat* (1992) and *Heimat 3* (2004), as well as the feature *Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision* (2013). He has been Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe since 1995 and has received multiple German Film Awards and honours for his body of work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heimat* (1984), Fi1m 91, Story, Writer, Producer, Screenplay, Idea, Director, Script, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting* (2025), Writer, Director
- *Subject: Filmmaking* (2024), Director, Writer
- *Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), Director
- *Heimat Fragments: The Women* (2006), Director
- *Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings* (2004), series, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Schabbach ist überall* (2004), Producer
- *The Night of the Filmmakers* (1995), Director
- *Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation* (1993), series, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Heimat* (1984), series, Director, Producer, Writer, Idea, Story, Screenplay, Script, Creator — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *Biermann-Film* (1983), Director
- *The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages* (1982), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography
- *Susanne tanzt* (1979), Producer, Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
- *The Tailor from Ulm* (1978), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Germany in Autumn* (1978), Screenplay, Director
- *Altstadt - Lebensstadt* (1977), Editor, Cinematography, Director, Producer
- *Zero Hour* (1977), Director, Writer, Producer
- *In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death* (1974), Writer, Director
- *Tales of the Dumpster Kid* (1974), Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
- *The Journey to Vienna* (1973), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Golden Thing* (1972), Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
- *Cardillac* (1970), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Cat Has Nine Lives* (1968), as Party Guest (uncredited)
- *Die Erben von Papas Kino* (1968), Actor
- *E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher* (1968), Director of Photography
- *Yesterday Girl* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Lust for Love* (1967), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Die Kinder* (1967), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Varia Vision* (1965), Director, Writer
- *Speed* (1963), Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
- *Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung* (1962), Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Yucatan* (1961), Cinematography, Writer, Director
- *Cotton* (1960), Writer, Director, Director of Photography
- *Story of an Opera House* (1958), Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Edgar Reitz](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-3f7a8bb8395a.jpg) Edgar Reitz — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Edgar_Reitz_at_the_2025_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-68043.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Reitz_at_the_2025_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-68043.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Edgar Reitz 2015. Foto: Günter Endres (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-76d6ec34776c.jpg) Edgar Reitz 2015. Foto: Günter Endres (2021) — Thomas Hönemann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/EdgarReitz-FotoGEndres.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Edgar Reitz, 2015](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-5fdd8acaf9c8.jpg) Edgar Reitz, 2015 — Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Edgar_Reitz_6345.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Reitz_6345.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Edgar Reitz, 2015](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-73129c222722.jpg) Edgar Reitz, 2015 — Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Edgar_Reitz_6336.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Reitz_6336.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Edgar Reitz](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-fdcab7630155.jpg) Edgar Reitz — Image via TMDB
- ![Edgar Reitz](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-2c10a1841ec4.jpg) Edgar Reitz — Image via TMDB
- ![Edgar Reitz](https://film.one/media/person/6774770/gallery-9358732254f4.jpg) Edgar Reitz — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1978: Golden Bear (nominated), for *Germany in Autumn*

### Other awards — 10 won, 2 nominated

- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 2016: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (won)
- German Film Award for Best Direction 2014: German Film Award for Best Direction (won), for *Home from Home*
- German Film Award for Best Feature Film 2014: German Film Award for Best Feature Film (nominated), for *Home from Home*
- German Film Award for Best Screenplay 2014: German Film Award for Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Home from Home*
- Kulturgroschen 2009: Kulturgroschen (won)
- Konrad Wolf Prize 2007: Konrad Wolf Prize (won)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2006: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal 2004: Carl Zuckmayer Medal (won)
- David di Donatello Luchino Visconti 1993: David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (won)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1992: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- German Film Honorary Award 1982: German Film Honorary Award (won)
- German Film Award for Best Feature Film 1977: German Film Award for Best Feature Film (won), for *Zero Hour*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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