Rainer Simon (born 11 January 1941) is a German

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He directed 17 films between 1964 and 2000. His '' How to Marry a King'' (1969) and '' Six Make it Through the World'' (1972) are highly imaginative adaptations of fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers, and together with his 1975 ''

Till Eulenspiegel Till Eulenspiegel (; ) is the protagonist of a European narrative tradition. A German chapbook published around 1510 is the oldest known extant publication about the folk hero (a first edition of is preserved fragmentarily), but a background i ...

,'' which is based on Renaissance stories that had been Christa and Gerhard Wolf recast into a film narration incorporating period history, present a very substantial contribution to World Cinema's carnevalesque film genre. His 1985 film '' The Woman and the Stranger'' won the

Golden Bear The Golden Bear () is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival and is, along with the Palme d'Or and the Golden Lion, the most important international film festival award. The bear is the heraldic an ...

award at the

35th Berlin International Film Festival The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985. The retrospective was dedicated to ''Special effects''. The Golden Bear was jointly awarded to '' The Woman and the Strangler'' directed by Rainer Simon a ...

. His 1980 film '' Jadup and Boel'' entered into the

16th Moscow International Film Festival The 16th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 July 1989. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Italian film '' The Icicle Thief'' directed by Maurizio Nichetti. Jury * Andrzej Wajda (Poland – President of the Jury) * G ...

in 1989.

Selected filmography

* '' How to Marry a King'' (1969) * '' Six Make It Through the World'' (1972) * ''Till Eulenspiegel'' (1975) — film about

(18+) * '' Jadup and Boel'' (1980) * ' (1983) — based on a novel by Fritz Rudolf Fries * '' The Woman and the Stranger'' (1985) — based on a novella by

Leonhard Frank Leonhard Frank (4 September 1882 in Würzburg – 18 August 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel ''The Robber Band'' (1914, tr. 1928). When a Be ...

* ' (1989) — film about

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...

* ' (1991) — screenplay by

Ulrich Plenzdorf Ulrich Plenzdorf (; 26 October 1934 – 9 August 2007) was a German author and dramatist. Life Born in Berlin, Plenzdorf studied Philosophy in Leipzig, but graduated with a degree in film. He found work at DEFA. He became famous in both East Ge ...

, based on a story by Franz Fühmann

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* 1941 births Living people People from Hainichen, Saxony Film people from Saxony Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany Directors of Golden Bear winners {{Germany-film-director-stub