Karl-Eberhard Schäfer

 

Vita

• degree in education

• worked in youth and adult education

• Worked for the Frankfurter Filmproduktion from 1987 to 1997. During that time he produced numerous tv-movies and shows e.g. 15 tv movies based on novels by Rosamunde Pilcher, shot in England; 26 episodes of „5 Freunde“ based on the books of Enid Blyton in co-production with Zenith North; the crime mini series „Kommissar Beck“ as a co-production with sweden, denmark and germany.

• 1997 one of the founders of U5 Filmproduktion, which by now produced more than 50 tv movies and documentaries, e.g. „Prisoners of Paradies“, a canadian-british-german co-production, nominated for the Oscar in 2003, and „Harmony“, inspired by HRH Prince Charles.

• Karl-Eberhard Schäfer is involved in film politics. He is chairman of the Vereinigung Hessischer Filmschaffender e.V. and was a long time member of the committee of Hessen-Invest-Film.

 

 

selected productions

• 1989, TV-Serie "Lauter nette Nachbarn", ARD

• 1991, TV-Serie "Tisch &Bett", ARD

• 1994, TV-Movie "Fatale Mutterliebe", ProSieben

• 1995, TV-Movie "Die einzige Zeugin", ProSieben

• 1993-1997, 15 TV-Movies nach Romanen von Rosamunde Pilcher, u.a. "Wilder Thymian", "Schlafender Tiger" etc., ZDF

• 1991-1996, TV-Kinder-Serie "Käpt\'n Blaubärs Seemannsgarn" u. "Käpt\'n Blaubärs Club", Ravensburger Film &WDR TV-Serie

• 1996, 26 Folgen "5 Freunde", ZDF & Portman/Zenith North

• 1996, TV-Movies "Hostile Force" u. "The Heist", ProSieben &Saban Entertainment

• 1997, 8 TV-Movies "Kommissar Beck", ARD & Victoria Film

• from 1998 see U5