Hans W. Geissendörfer

Director. Writer. Producer. Has studied germanistics, theatre, psychology and african languages between 1962 and 1967. Has travelled Africa and Asia. In 1971 co-founder of the german Filmverlag der Autoren. 1983 he founded his own production company. Geissendoerfer is producer and partly director of the first real German soap opera Lindenstraße (1985), which nowadays (1995) has had more than 500 episodes on air since December 1984.