Biography
Peter F. Steinbach was a German screenwriter. Born in Leipzig in 1938, he moved to West Germany in 1954 and worked in various jobs, including as a sailor and taxi driver, before beginning to write around 1975.
He specialised in radio plays and television films. Steinbach co-wrote the screenplay for the series Heimat (1984) with Edgar Reitz, for which he received the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in Gold in 1985 for the episode "Hermännchen" and again in 1986 for the series. Other credits include Deutschland im Herbst (1978), Kalte Heimat (1979) and the screenplay for Herbstmilch (1989). He also wrote novels and children's literature.
Steinbach died in Svendborg, Denmark, in 2019.
