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Als 1987 die erste bundesdeutsche Maßnahme zur Ausbildung von Drehbuchautoren ins Leben gerufen wurde, war Jochen Brunow als Seminarleiter, Juror und Stoffbetreuer dabei. Er holte später den berühmten amerikanisch/tschechischen Drehbuchlehrer Frank Daniel zu einer ersten Veranstaltung nach Deutschland.


Jochen Brunow unterrichtete an diversen Universitäten auch in Zürich, wo er die Filmstudenten der HGKZ zehn Jahre lang bei der Entwicklung ihrer Abschluss Projekte begleitete. Am amerikanischen Liberal Arts College in Grinnell wirkte er als „writer in residence“.


Von 2007 bis 2017 leitete er die Drehbuchakademie der dffb. Dort entwickelte er mit Kollegen aus Prag, Amsterdam und London das Programm „Writers for Europe.“
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Writers for Europe
Together with Hans Heesen from Amsterdam, Brian Ward from London and Pavel Jech from Prague I initiated the Program Writers for Europe. The Program was launched in 2010 as a symposium in Berlin, during the meeting of the screenwriters departments of the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie Berlin (DFFB), the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield (NFTS), and the Netherlands Film Academy. In the years that followed, this has grown into a regular meeting between these schools including the film school of Prague (FAMU), and has been organized alternately in one of these cities.
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The goal of the symposium was to help students develop a sense for European stories, and projects with international appeal. To learn through collaboration to go across linguistic and national boundaries, and become the leading international screenwriters of the near future. The first session was documented in a booklet.


When I left as head of the DFFB Screenwriting Department I could not prevent the DFFB from falling out of the program and being replaced by Barcelona.