Jonathan Briel

Biography

Jonatan Karl Dieter Briel was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor born on June 9, 1942, in Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony. He is best known for his literary biographical films, particularly those focused on 19th-century German poets and dramatists, such as Heinrich von Kleist and Christian Friedrich Hebbel. Briel's film "Wie zwei fröhliche Luftschiffer" won the jury prize at the Mannheim International Film Festival in 1969, and he also worked on the critically acclaimed "Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press" (1984).