Life
After graduating, Lichtenfeld moved into the Federal Republic, and there worked as a reporter on several newspapers. In the 1960s he became the television correspondent for Hörzu magazine. At this time he started to write radio plays and books. From 1968 he worked full-time as a screenplay writer. His first television film Deutschlandreise (German Journey) (1970, co-production between NDR og NRK) was co-written with Adolf Grimme-Preis.
A little later he began a partnership with the then still unknown director Wolfgang Petersen. Together they developed a series of detective TV movies called Kriminalreihe (Crime Scene). These achieved ratings of over seventy per cent. The high point of this series was School Leaving Certificate (1974) with Nastassja Kinski and Christian Quadflieg, about a relationship between a teacher and a pupil.
While Wolfgang Petersen moved to the cinema and today works successfully in Hollywood, Lichtenfeld remained a writer for television. Besides writing further Kriminalreihe scripts he wrote for other crime film series such as Der Alte (The old man).
Also outside of the crime film genre he wrote numerous books, radio plays, television films and television series. Lichtenfeld's film scripts were always complex, with very precise dialogue, often not without a shot of irony.
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