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Prior to becoming a screenwriter and film director in 1971, Ottokar Runze spent his entire career acting and free-lance directing in German theater. Between 1947 and 1950, he acted at the Deutsches Theater, and from 195--56 he directed the British Centre's Berlin theater. He went free-lance until 1968 when he began producing independent films. As a writer and filmmaker, Runze has done much work for television. His feature-film credits include Viola und Sebastian (1971), Im Namen des Volkes (1974) and his homage to influential German poet/playwright Bertolt Brecht, Hundert Jahre Brecht/Hundred Years of Brecht (1998).