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)_ (qv), which nowadays (1995) has had more than 500 episodes on air since December 1984.::Oliver Heidelbach