Realized film projects

Since the founding of Suhrkamp Verlag, numerous works from the Suhrkamp catalogue have been adapted for cinema and television productions by renowned filmmakers. We have compiled a selection of remarkable film adaptations from recent years and decades:
 
   

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WEISSBIER IM BLUT
based on the novel of the same name by Jörg Graser
Screenplay: Jörg Graser
Director: Jörg Graser
Production: Ulrich Limmer / Ralf Zimmermann
Cinema release: 2.6.2021
 
NARZISS UND GOLDMUND
based on the novel of the same name by Hermann Hesse
Screenplay: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Production: Helge Sasse, Christoph Müller
Cinema release: 12.3.2020
 
KRUSO
based on the novel of the same name by Lutz Seiler
Screenplay: Thomas Kirchner
Director: Thomas Stuber
Production: UFA Fiction / MDR
First broadcast: 26.9.2018 (Das Erste)
 
MACKIE MESSER – BRECHTS DREIGROSCHENFILM
based on „Die Dreigroschenoper“ by Bertolt Brecht
Screenplay: Joachim A. Lang
Director: Joachim A. Lang
Production: Zeitsprung Pictures
Cinema release: 13.9.2018
 
ZWEI HERREN IM ANZUG
based on the novel „Mittelreich“ by Josef Bierbichler
Screenplay: Josef Bierbichler
Director: Josef Bierbichler
Production: X-Filme / BR / ARTE / WDR
Cinema release: 22.3.2018
 
JUNGES LICHT
based on the novel of the same name by Ralf Rothmann
Screenplay: Till Beckmann, Nils Beckmann, Adolf Winkelmann
Director: Adolf Winkelmann
Production: Michael Smeaton, Christiane Schaefer-Winkelmann
Cinema release: 12.5.2016
 
DER VERLORENE BRUDER
based on the novel „Der Verlorene“ by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Screenplay: Ruth Toma
Director: Matti Geschonneck
Production: Claussen + Putz
First broadcast: 9.12.2015 (Das Erste)
 
ICH UND KAMINSKI
based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Kehlmann
Screenplay: Thomas Wendrich, Wolfgang Becker, Achim von Borries
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Production: X-Filme
Cinema release: 17.9.2015

CHUZPE
based on the novel „You Gotta Have Balls“ by Lily Brett
Screenplay: Andrea Stoll
Director: Isabel Kleefeld
Production: Thomas Hroch, Gerald Podgornig, Gudula von Eysmondt
First broadcast: 5.9.2015 (Das Erste)
 
GRENZGANG
based on the novel of the same name by Stephan Thome
Screenplay: Hannah Hollinger
Director: Brigitte Bertele
Production: Christian Granderath, Ariane Krampe, Michael André
Erstsendung: 27.11.2013 (ARD)

DER TURM
Based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Tellkamp
Screenplay: Thomas Kirchner
Director: Christian Schwochow
Production: Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hoffmann, Matthias Adler
First broadcast: 3./4.10.2012 (ARD)

DIE HEIMKEHR
based on the novel of the same name by Hermann Hesse
Screenplay: Jo Baier
Director: Jo Baier
Production: Bavaria Fiction
First broadcast: 2.5.2012 (ARD)
 
DIE PERLMUTTERFARBE
based on the novel of the same name of Anna Maria Jokl
Screenplay: Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Christian Lerch
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Production: Robert Marciniak, Uli Aselmann
Cinema release: 8.1.2009

EIN FLIEHENDES PFERD
based on the novel of the same name by Martin Walser
Screenplay: Kathrin Richter, Ralf Hertwig
Director: Rainer Kaufmann
Production: Rikolt von Gagern
Cinema release: 20.9.2007

WILLENBROCK
based on the novel of the same name by Christoph Hein
Screenplay: Laila Stieler
Director: Andreas Dresen
Production: Norbert Sauer
Cinema release: 17.3.2005

HOMO FABER
based on the novel of the same name by Max Frisch
Screenplay: Rudy Wurlitzer, Volker Schlöndorff
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Production: Bioskop-Film
Cinema release: 21.3.1991

DER TANGOSPIELER
based on the novel of the same name by Christoph Hein
Screenplay: Roland Gräf
Director: Roland Gräf
Production: DEFA, CSM, WDR
Cinema release: 28.2.1991
 
MALINA
based on the novel of the same name by Ingeborg Bachmann
Screenplay: Elfriede Jelinek
Director: Werner Schroeter
Production: Steffen Kuchenreuther, Thomas Kuchenreuther
Cinema release: 17.1.1991

SIDDHARTHA
based on the novel of the same name by Hermann Hesse
Screenplay: Conrad Rooks
Director: Conrad Rooks
Production: Conrad Rooks
Cinema release: 1972