Editing Wolfgang Petersen (section)

==Career==
Petersen's first productions were for German television, and it was during his work on the popular German ''[[Tatort]]'' (''Crime Scene'') TV series that he first met and worked with the actor [[Jürgen Prochnow]]<ref name="Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen (ARD) 2016" /> — who would later appear as the [[U-boat]] captain in Petersen's famous {{lang|de|Das Boot}}. The most famous of his ''Tatort'' episodes is ''[[Reifezeugnis]]'' (Maturity Certificate) from 1977 with the young [[Nastassja Kinski]].<ref name="DER SPIEGEL 2022" /> He shot 6 ''Tatort'' episodes.<ref name="NDR.de 2022_2" />

Petersen made his first theatrical feature film in 1974, the [[psychological thriller]] ''[[One or the Other of Us]]'', based on the novel ''Einer von uns beiden'' by Horst Bosetzky and published anonymously under his pseudonym and starring Jürgen Prochnow.<ref name="tagesschau.de 2022" /> He next directed the 1977 film ''[[Die Konsequenz]]'', a black/white adaptation of [[Alexander Ziegler (Swiss writer)|Alexander Ziegler]]'s autobiographical novel of homosexual love.<ref name="tagesschau.de 2022" /> In its time, the film was considered so radical that when first broadcast in Germany, the [[Bavaria]]n network [[Bayerischer Rundfunk]] turned off the transmitters rather than broadcast it.<ref name="web.ard.de" />

His next feature was the [[World War II]] epic {{lang|de|[[Das Boot]]}}, released in early 1982.<ref name="GmbH 2022" /> The film chronicles the experiences of a German submarine crew engaged in the "[[Battle of the Atlantic]]".<ref name="Fakultät für Informatik - OvGU Magdeburg Fakultät für Informatik"/> Though not an immediate financial success, the film received highly positive reviews and was nominated for six [[Academy Awards]], two of which (for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]) went to Petersen;<ref name="Smith 2022" /> he was also nominated for a [[BAFTA Award]] and [[DGA Award]].<ref name="AllMovie" /> The film starred [[Jürgen Prochnow]] as the U-boat Captain,<ref name="Arts 2022" /> who became a good example of Petersen's action characters, a man at war who confronts danger and fate at sea.

[[File:Stanley O'Toole, Dennis Quaid, Wolfgang Petersen.jpg|thumb|From left to right: [[Stanley O'Toole]], [[Dennis Quaid]] and Petersen in 1984]]
After ''[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|The NeverEnding Story]]'' (1984),<ref name="Michael Ende 2011" /> Petersen's first English-language film, he directed ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]'' (1985),<ref name="DER SPIEGEL 1985" /><ref name="Smith 2022" /> which was not a critical or box office success. He hit his stride in 1993 with the assassination thriller ''[[In the Line of Fire]]''.<ref name="Coyle 2022" /> Starring [[Clint Eastwood]] as an angst-ridden presidential [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] guard,<ref name="Coyle 2022" /> ''In the Line of Fire'' gave Petersen the box office clout he needed to direct another suspense thriller, ''[[Outbreak (1995 film)|Outbreak]]'' (1995), starring [[Dustin Hoffman]].<ref name="FILMSTARTS.de 1995" /> The 1997 Petersen blockbuster ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'' did very well at the box office, with generally positive critical reviews from movie critics. For both ''Air Force One'' and ''Outbreak'', Petersen teamed up with the German cinematographer [[Michael Ballhaus]],<ref name="B.Z. – Die Stimme Berlins 2017" /> who has also worked frequently with director [[Martin Scorsese]].<ref name="GmbH 1970" />
[[File:Wolfgang Petersen.jpg|thumb|right|Petersen at the filming location of ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'']]
By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic {{lang|de|Das Boot}} in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers. As such, he was originally considered to direct the first movie in the [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'' film series]], ''[[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''. Petersen pulled out of the running in March 2000.<ref name="R2" />

In the 2000s, Petersen continued to direct two summer blockbusters, the films ''[[The Perfect Storm (film)|The Perfect Storm]]'' (2000) and ''[[Troy (film)|Troy]]'' (2004). The success of the former helped his Radiant Productions company to sign a deal with [[Warner Bros.]]<ref name="R3" />

[[File:Wolfgang Petersen - Boulevard der Stars.jpg|thumb|Petersen, Boulevard der Stars, Berlin]]
Petersen's $160 million epic film ''[[Poseidon (film)|Poseidon]]'', a re-telling of the 1969 [[Paul Gallico]] novel ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (novel)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' (previously adapted for the [[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|1972 disaster film]]), was released by Warner Bros. in May 2006. The film performed poorly in the U.S., barely exceeding $60 million in domestic box office receipts by early August, but international sales surpassed $121 million.<ref name="Duffy 2022" />

Although hired to direct [[Ender's Game (film)|the film adaptation]] of ''[[Ender's Game]]'' by [[Orson Scott Card]] that was scheduled for release in 2008, he later "moved on"<ref name="R4" /> from the project. His potential projects included a live-action adaptation of the 2006 anime film ''[[Paprika (2006 film)|Paprika]]''<ref name="R5" /> and a film adaptation of the science fiction novel ''[[Old Man's War]]''.<ref name="R6" />

After a ten-year hiatus, Petersen returned in 2016 as director of the heist comedy ''[[Vier gegen die Bank (2016 film)|Vier gegen die Bank]]'', his first German-language film since {{lang|de|[[Das Boot]]}} in 1981.<ref name="R7" />