Reiner E. Moritz


Reiner Eberhard Moritz is a German film director and film producer.

Biography

Moritz studied musicology, German and Romance studies. He graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1970. In 1977, he founded the RM Creative Fernseh- und Film-GmbH in Munich, which still exists today. In 1978 he founded the RM Arts Fernseh- und Film GmbH, which later passed to the Kirch Group and since 2005 has rights to some 900 productions owned by the Arthaus Musik label. RM Arts produced a large number of documentaries in the field of music and visual arts.
In 1981, RM Arts started the series 1000 Meisterwerke for the WDR under the direction of Moritz. Moritz knew Dmitri Shostakovich and produced the documentary Ein Mann mit vielen Gesichtern about him.

Honours

As director