Pamela Katz

Pamela Katz is a screenwriter and author with a special interest in historical and biographical subjects. She wrote four films for Margarethe von Trotta', including, Hannah Arendt, starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival; Rosenstrasse, based on a true story of resistance to the Third Reich; and The Other Woman, about Stasi Romeos in former East Germany. Katz also wrote Remembrance, based on a true story about a pair of lovers who escape Auschwitz only to lose each other in postwar Poland. They reunite thirty years later. Most recently, she wrote The Force for director Xavier Artigas, about Simone Weil’s participation in the Spanish Civil War. 

Katz has also written a non-fiction book about the spectacular partnership of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (writer and composer of The Threepenny Opera) titled The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women and Germany on the Brink, which was published by Doubleday/Nan A. Talese Books. Her current project, An Unlikely Assassin, is about Monika Ertl, the last and only female leader of Che Guevara’s National Liberation Army. It will be published by Monthly Review Press.

Courses

Writing the Feature I and II

Education

Dartmouth College - B.A.