---
name: "Peter Steinbach"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-steinbach"
fi1m_id: "peter-steinbach"
imdb_id: "nm0825689"
tmdb_id: 63908
wikidata_id: "Q1720689"
roles: ["Idea"]
born: "10 December 1938"
died: "6 February 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:58.202542+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."
---

# Peter Steinbach

## Identity

Peter Steinbach

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-steinbach
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-steinbach
- **IMDb ID:** nm0825689
- **TMDB ID:** 63908
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1720689
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1720689, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825689/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63908

Idea. Born 10 December 1938 in Leipzig, Germany. Died 6 February 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Idea
- **Born:** 10 December 1938, Leipzig, Germany
- **Died:** 6 February 2019
- **Also known as:** Peter F. Steinbach
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1720689, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825689/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63908

## 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.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Amnesia* (2015), Screenplay
- *Heimat Fragments: The Women* (2006), Writer
- *Liebesau - Die andere Heimat* (2002), series, Writer
- *Jahrestage* (2000), series, Teleplay
- *Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland* (1999), series, Creator
- *C'est la vie* (1991), Director
- *Autumn Milk* (1989), Screenplay
- *Heimat* (1984), series, Writer, Idea, Story, Screenplay, Script — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages* (1982), Writer
- *Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold* (1980), Assistant Director
- *Kalte Heimat* (1979), Director
- *Germany in Autumn* (1978), Screenplay
- *Zero Hour* (1977), Writer
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Friedrich Hebbel Award 1978: Friedrich Hebbel Award (won)

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

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