Creatives: Write!

Welcome to the Sooner Channel "Creatives: Write!". Here you can immerse yourself in the world of words and discover the fascinating processes behind writing, be it in the form of poetry, novels, screenplays or journalistic works. Our carefully selected films and documentaries offer you a deep insight into the life and work of writers and poets who have moved the world with their pen.
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  • Gottes zerstreute Funken - Jüdische Mystik bei Paul Celan

    Gottes zerstreute Funken - Jüdische Mystik bei Paul Celan

    2016

    1h.7min

    0 FSK

    This film essay traces the life of influential poet Paul Celan, and illuminates his interest in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah.


  • Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance

    Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance

    2021

    1h.35min

    16+

    The only documentary about Czech writer Milan Kundera's legacy.


  • Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

    2018

    1h.8min

    16+

    Discover the extraordinary impact of a renowned author who revolutionized American literature by popularizing science fiction.


  • Latest News from the Cosmos

    Latest News from the Cosmos

    2016

    1h.25min

    16+

    Hélène writes with biting humor. And yet this poet can't hold a pen, can't speak, and has never learned to read or write.


  • Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez

    2015

    1h.30min

    0

    Gabriel García Márquez, known as "Gabo", achieved world fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967).


  • Brecht

    Brecht

    2018

    3h.0min

    12 FSK

    East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back.


  • Friendship of Men

    Friendship of Men

    2018

    1h.25min

    12 FSK

    Cult director Rosa von Praunheim explores the question of how gay Goethe and his contemporaries were. How did they perceive homosexuality?


  • William S. Burroughs – A Man Within

    William S. Burroughs – A Man Within

    2011

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    William S. Burroughs: cult figure, novelist and pioneer of the underground cultures. In the docu his closest friends: Laurie Anderson, David Cronenberg, ...


  • Bulgaria Of All Places

    Bulgaria Of All Places

    2007

    1h.34min

    0 FSK

    This documentary chronicles the life of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff's family, who fled from Berlin and Nazi Germany to Bulgaria in 1939.


  • Tardi - Black on White

    Tardi - Black on White

    2006

    50min

    16+

    Jacques Tardi is one of the most important graphic novel authors in the world. Director Pierre-André Sauvageot has created a cinematic memorial to him