Egon Günther

This article is about the film director and screenwriter. For the gallerist, printmaker and photographer, see Egon Guenther.

Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)^[1] was a German film director and writer.

Egon Günther
Egon Günther in 1988
Born	(1927-03-30)30 March 1927 Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Died	31 August 2017(2017-08-31) (aged 90) Potsdam, Germany
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1961 – 2002

His film Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] In 1985, his film Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Selected filmography

• The Dress (co-director: Konrad Petzold, 1961) — (based on The Emperor's New Clothes)
• Lots Weib (1965)
• Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam (1966, released 1990)
• Abschied [de] (1968) — (based on a novel by Johannes R. Becher)
• Junge Frau von 1914 [de] (1970, TV film) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
• Anlauf (1971, TV film) — (based on a story by Benito Wogatzki)
• Her Third (1971) — (based on a story by Eberhard Panitz)
• Erziehung vor Verdun (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
• Die Schlüssel (1974)
• Lotte in Weimar (East Germany/West Germany, 1974) — (based on Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns)
• Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [de] (1976) — (based on The Sorrows of Young Werther)
• Ursula [de] (Switzerland/East Germany, 1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by Gottfried Keller)
• Exil (1981, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger)
• Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen (1982, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Chancellor von Müller)
• Hanna von acht bis acht (1983, TV film)
• Morenga (1985) — (based on a novel by Uwe Timm)
• Mamas Geburtstag (1985, TV film)
• Die letzte Rolle (1986, TV film)
• Heimatmuseum [de] (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Siegfried Lenz)
• Rosamunde [de] (1990)
• Stein [de] (1991)
• Lenz (1992, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
• Die Braut [de] (1999) — (film about Goethe and Christiane Vulpius)
• Else – Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (2000, TV film) — (based on a novel by Angelika Schrobsdorff)