Wolfgang Petersen
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Wolfgang Petersen (born 14 March 1941) is a German film director, film producer, and screenwriter.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981).
The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Troy (2004), and Poseidon (2006).
Early life
Petersen was born in Emden on March 14, 1941, the son of a naval officer. Petersen attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg from 1953 to 1960.
Although still at school, he made his first films with an 8-mm camera. He was directing plays at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater in the 1960s. Petersen attended the Film and Television Academy in Berlin (1966–1970), after studying theater in Berlin and Hamburg.
Personal life
Ursula Sieg, an actress, was Petersen's first marriage; they had a boy. Maria Borgel, his secretary, married him in 1978. Petersen immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986 and gained American citizenship.
Career
Petersen's first films on German television were for German television, and it was during his time on the hit German Tatort (Crime Scene) TV series that he first met and worked with actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Petersen's famous Das Boot. With the young Nastassja Kinski, Reifezeugnis (Maturity Certificate) from 1977 is one of his Tatort episodes. He appeared in six episodes of Tatort.
Petersen made his first theatrical feature film in 1974, the psychological thriller One or the Other of Us, based on Horst Bosetzky's book Einer von uns beiden and released anonymously under his pseudonym and starring Jürgen Prochnow. He then produced Die Konsequenz, a black/white reinterpretation of Alexander Ziegler's autobiographical book of homosexual passion. In its time, the film was considered so experimental that when it first premiered in Germany, Bayerischer Rundfunk, a Bavarian company, cut off the transmitters rather than broadcast it.
Das Boot, the World War II epic, was released in 1982. The film chronicles the adventures of a German submarine crew in the "Battle of the Atlantic." Despite being a temporary financial success, the film was nominated for six Academy Awards, two of which (for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) went to Petersen; he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and the DGA Award. Jürgen Prochnow played the U-boat Captain, giving Petersen's action characters a great example, a man at war who confronts danger and fate at sea.
Petersen's first English-language film, The NeverEnding Story (1984), was not a critical or box office success, but it was not a critical or box office hit. With the assassination thriller In the Line of Fire, he hit his stride in 1993. Clint Eastwood, the angst-ridden presidential Secret Service guard, gave Petersen the Line of Fire clout he needed to direct another suspense thriller, Outbreak (1995), starring Dustin Hoffman. The 1997 Petersen blockbuster Air Force One did well at the box office, with generally favorable critical feedback from movie critics. Petersen worked with German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who has also worked closely with director Martin Scorsese on Air Force One and Outbreak.
Petersen had been an established Hollywood producer by 1998, with the ability to both re-release his masterpiece Das Boot in a new director's role and to direct star-studded action-thrillers. He was originally scheduled to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Harry Potter film series. In March 2000, Petersen dropped out of the race.
Petersen continued to produce two summer blockbusters, The Perfect Storm (2000) and Troy (2004). The former's popularity helped his Radiant Productions firm sign a Warner Bros contract.
Poseidon, Petersen's re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel The Poseidon Adventure (previously made for the 1972 disaster film) was released by Warner Bros. in May 2006. The film did poorly in the United States, grossing just over $60 million in domestic box office sales by early August, but international sales exceeded $121 million.
Despite being hired to direct the film version of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, which was supposed to be released in 2008, he later "stepped away" from the venture. A live-action recreation of the 2006 anime film Paprika and a film adaptation of the science fiction book Old Man's War were among his potential projects.
Petersen returned to his role as director of the heist comedy Vier gegen die Bank in 2016, his first German-language film since Das Boot in 1981, after a ten-year absence.