Biography
Briefly glancing back at Gunar’s career, he created the popular action series Lasko - Miracles still happen for the German TV channel RTL and co-authored the pilot screenplay Deathtrain, starring Arnold Vosloo, which originally successfully broadcast in Germany and has since been syndicated worldwide. He wrote the screenplay of the movie project Platty's Run, a family feature film about a platypus on the run located in Australia, as well as the TV movie screenplay Full House, a sarcastic comedy about a shifty real estate speculator (commissioned by German TV channel Pro Sieben), and dialogues for the long-running daily soap Forbidden Love.
The highly acclaimed Fascination India 3D was authored by Gunar, as was the documentary road movie Brezelkaefer Diaries, depicting an adventurous journey along the Panamericana Highway to the southern tip of South America. He wrote and directed the full-length documentary Silver Sensual Sexy and developed the series Treasures of the World - Heritage of Mankind which were produced by public German TV networks SWR and ZDF in cooperation with UNESCO. For this series, he scripted and directed films on Stonehenge, the City of Bath, Westminster, Warsaw and other places of note. In addition, he scripted feature-length documentaries about the Azores, Rio de Janeiro and the American Southwest. He authored First Step - From Earth to the Moon, a VR documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. For the German TV network ZDF, he wrote and directed the TV series The Firing Line.
Gunar has written, produced and directed a myriad of commercials and marketing videos for various well-known corporations such as Berlin Adlershof (Germany’s leading science and technology park and the capital’s #1 location for business and media), German Telekom, Start Amadeus, the telephone company Berlikomm and many others. He wrote and directed highly successful live presentations for automobile multinationals such as Renault and Honda and scripted business oriented theatre plays for prestigious companies such as Deutsche Bahn and LBS Munich. Moreover, he scripted and directed a highly acclaimed live radio show on the long-running German TV crime series Tatort for the Berlin radio network RBB.
At the University of Potsdam, Gunar taught classes in screenwriting. Prior to that, he was part of the TV department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany’s leading daily newspaper). In his position as editor, he scripted, produced and directed a variety of TV programs. His short movie The Aphrodisiac of Nicolas Flamel received the Short Film Award from the Movie Theatre Owners of Germany. He was also a jury member of the International EMMY Awards competition.
Gunar began his professional career as an assistant director, dubbing director, location manager and stills photographer for TV series, thrillers and documentaries. In addition, he has written more than 1,000 film reviews for major German newspapers and radio networks. In this context, he extensively interviewed legendary film directors such as Federico Fellini, Richard Attenborough, Wim Wenders, John Boorman and François Truffaut.
