--- name: "Günter Rohrbach" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gunter-rohrbach" fi1m_id: "gunter-rohrbach" imdb_id: "nm0737582" tmdb_id: 5238 wikidata_id: "Q1560949" roles: ["Producer"] born: "23 October 1928" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-12T04:13:16.651240+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Günter Rohrbach ## Identity Günter Rohrbach - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gunter-rohrbach - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gunter-rohrbach - **IMDb ID:** nm0737582 - **TMDB ID:** 5238 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1560949 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1560949, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5238 Producer. Born 23 October 1928 in Neunkirchen, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 23 October 1928, Neunkirchen, Germany - **Active:** 1981–1988 - **Also known as:** Rohrbach - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1560949, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5238 ## Biography Günter Rohrbach is a German film and television producer. He studied Germanistics, philosophy, psychology and theatre studies in Bonn, Munich, Paris and Cologne, and was awarded a doctorate in 1957 for a dissertation on Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus. From 1961 he worked as an editor at the WDR television channel, becoming head of its teleplay department between 1965 and 1979. In 1979 Rohrbach was appointed chief executive of Bavaria Film in Munich, a post he held until 1994. During this period he produced Das Boot (1981) and served as co-producer on The NeverEnding Story (1984). He later worked as an independent producer on films including Stalingrad (1993), Schtonk! (1992), Aimée & Jaguar (1999) and A Woman in Berlin (2008). He has held a professorship at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München since 1992 and was a founding president of the Deutsche Filmakademie. *Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, dw.com, filmportal.de.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Das Boot* (1981), Fi1m 89, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/das-boot.md) ## Complete filmography (23) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Der weisse Äthiopier* (2015), Producer - *Hotel Lux* (2011), Producer - *Effi Briest* (2009), Producer - *A Woman in Berlin* (2008), Producer - *The White Masai* (2005), Screenplay, Producer - *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999), Producer - *The Pharmacist* (1997), Producer - *Rudy, the Racing Pig* (1995), Producer - *The Invincibles* (1994), Producer - *Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen* (1994), Producer - *Stalingrad* (1993), Producer - *Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East* (1992), Producer - *Schtonk!* (1992), Producer - *Pappa ante Portas* (1991), Producer - *Go Trabi Go* (1991), Executive Producer - *Silence Like Glass* (1989), Executive Producer - *Ödipussi* (1988), Co-Producer - *The Cat* (1988), Producer - *Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy* (1986), series, Producer - *The NeverEnding Story* (1984), Co-Producer - *The Roaring Fifties* (1983), Producer - *Das Boot* (1981), Producer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/das-boot.md) - *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (1980), series, Producer ## Gallery - ![Günter Rohrbach](https://film.one/media/person/103075/gallery-ea7b45d367fb.jpg) Günter Rohrbach — Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/G%C3%BCnter_Rohrbach_6378.jpg/1280px-G%C3%BCnter_Rohrbach_6378.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Christian Franckenstein, Jan S. Kaiser, Günter Rohrbach, Iris Ostermaier and Fred Burcksen presenting the Netflix series "Freud (TV series)" at the Berlinale 20 (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/103075/gallery-b893a7848334.jpg) Christian Franckenstein, Jan S. Kaiser, Günter Rohrbach, Iris Ostermaier and Fred Burcksen presenting the Netflix series "Freud (TV series)" at the Berlinale 20 (2020) — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/MJK_70366-67_Christian_Franckenstein%2C_Jan_S._Kaiser%2C_G%C3%BCnter_Rohrbach%2C_Iris_Ostermaier_und_Fred_Burcksen_%28Freud%2C_Berlinale_2020%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_70366-67_Christian_Franckenstein%2C_Jan_S._Kaiser%2C_G%C3%BCnter_Rohrbach%2C_Iris_Ostermaier_und_Fred_Burcksen_%28Freud%2C_Berlinale_2020%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Der Film- und Fernsehproduzent Günter Rohrbach, Laudator in der Frankfurter Paulskirche zur "Überreichung des Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preises 2018 an Margarethe von T](https://film.one/media/person/103075/gallery-b2d6bcfae852.jpg) Der Film- und Fernsehproduzent Günter Rohrbach, Laudator in der Frankfurter Paulskirche zur "Überreichung des Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preises 2018 an Margarethe von T — Dontworry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Theodor-w.-adorno-preis-2018-paulskirche-ffm-guenter-rohrbach-3345.jpg/1280px-Theodor-w.-adorno-preis-2018-paulskirche-ffm-guenter-rohrbach-3345.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Der Film- und Fernsehproduzent Günter Rohrbach, Laudator in der Frankfurter Paulskirche zur "Überreichung des Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preises 2018 an Margarethe von T](https://film.one/media/person/103075/gallery-0952ce4523dd.jpg) Der Film- und Fernsehproduzent Günter Rohrbach, Laudator in der Frankfurter Paulskirche zur "Überreichung des Theodor-W.-Adorno-Preises 2018 an Margarethe von T — Dontworry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Theodor-w.-adorno-preis-2018-paulskirche-ffm-guenter-rohrbach-3347.jpg/1280px-Theodor-w.-adorno-preis-2018-paulskirche-ffm-guenter-rohrbach-3347.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - honorary citizenship 2023: honorary citizenship (won) - Film Award of the City of Munich 2007: Film Award of the City of Munich (won) - Bavarian TV Awards 1990: Bavarian TV Awards (won), for *Rote Erde* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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