Wolfgang Menge

Writer

April 10, 1924 (88 years)

† October 17, 2012

Berlin, Germany

Biography

Wolfgang Menge was a German writer, primarily a screenwriter, and journalist.

Filmography

6.2

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

8.7

Ein Herz und eine Seele

Ein Herz und eine Seele is a German cult sitcom based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part by Johnny Speight. The show premiered on January 15, 1973 and lasted for about twenty episodes, airing its last on November 4, 1974. In 1976, the show had a short-lived revival with another four episodes. Ein Herz und eine Seele was written by Wolfgang Menge. The show was extremely successful during its initial run and it still proves very popular in reruns. Two episodes in particular, Silvesterpunsch and Rosenmontagszug have gained such popularity that they are now shown traditionally on German TV on New Year's Eve and Rosenmontag, respectively.

6.0

End of Innocence

End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.

8.0

Die Katze im Sack

Vic Malloy discovers the letter of a girl in his letter tray. The shnodder detective has probably forgotten to open it some time ago. He now learns that the young millionaire should have come to life immediately after sending the letter. But who inherited the fortune? The sister who says in the letter that she should be in the violence of blackmailers. With his detective colleague Jack, Vic goes after the matter. They encounter a secret crime.

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Motzki

Motzki is a German television series.

8.0

Baldur Blauzahn

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6.4

The Green Archer

The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?

6.1

The Red Circle

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.

4.0

The Molesters

In exploring sex offenses, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and masochism. After the criminals are arrested and given psychological tests, they may be sentenced to an institution or undergo brain surgery (with their consent) in order to be rehabilitated.

6.0

Punishment Battalion

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.

6.8

The Million Game

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.

6.7

Mann im Schatten

Crime Thriller with Helmut Qualtinger as Chief Inspector who investigates a Murder in 1961 Vienna. The murder is based on a real murder, the "bathub murder", which gained quite some media attraction in austria in the 1940's.

5.9

Smog

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.

5.0

I’m an Elephant, Madame

The pupil Rull rehearses the uprising at a grammar school in Bremen and tries to break through the authoritarian structures of his school. The result is a humorous protest movement that demands a democratic school form.

6.3

Four Against the Bank

One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank. He recruits members of his golf club that are not paying their fees.

8.0

Rebellion der Verlorenen

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10.0

Das Traumhaus

Four young people dream of a simple life. In the middle of Berlin, they retreat to an idyllic villa with a garden, where they want to provide for themselves and lead an alternative lifestyle. But then an unscrupulous property developer wants to demolish the villa to build a modern residential complex.

4.8

Der Partyphotograph

A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes.

4.7

Polizeirevier Davidswache

A drama that illustrates a few days at a busy Hamburg police station.

10.0

Die Dubrow Krise

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