---
name: "Richard Reitinger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-reitinger"
fi1m_id: "richard-reitinger"
imdb_id: "nm0718637"
tmdb_id: 2306
wikidata_id: "Q2150430"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 April 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T01:19:30.023701+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."
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# Richard Reitinger

## Identity

Richard Reitinger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-reitinger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-reitinger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0718637
- **TMDB ID:** 2306
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2150430
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reitinger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2150430, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2306

Writer. Born 6 April 1951 in München, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 April 1951, München, Germany
- **Active:** 1987–1998
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 55 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reitinger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2150430, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2306

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wings of Desire*](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Richard Reitinger is a German screenwriter born on 6 April 1951 in Munich. He began writing for film and television in 1985 after earlier work as a street singer, streetworker and publisher.

He co-wrote the screenplay for *Wings of Desire* (1987) with Wim Wenders and Peter Handke. Reitinger later collaborated again with Wenders on the sequel *Faraway, So Close!* (1993), sharing credit with Ulrich Zieger. His original screenplay for the first film provided the basis for the 1998 Hollywood remake *City of Angels*. Other credits include the screenplay for *Jungle Child* (2011) and episodes of television series such as *Einsatz in Hamburg*.

From 2007 to 2022 Reitinger was professor of screenwriting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and artistic director of the Hamburg Media School.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *City of Angels* (1998), Fi1m 55, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *The Show* (2022), Thanks
- *Jungle Child* (2011), Screenplay
- *The Secret of the Whales* (2010), Writer
- *Messy Christmas* (2007), Screenplay
- *Feuer in der Nacht* (2004), Writer
- *City of Angels* (1998), Original Film Writer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *Faraway, So Close!* (1993), Screenplay
- *Amazon* (1990), Writer
- *The Match Factory Girl* (1990), as Man in Bar
- *Cha Cha Cha* (1989), Writer
- *Helsinki Napoli All Night Long* (1987), Writer, Dialogue
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

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