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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1985.

On April 8, 2011 he received the Lola for his life's work from the German Film Academy. In his acceptance speech he said: "I am not only delighted but also encouraged. And you need that at any age.".

From 1952 Kohlhaase was a freelance screenwriter and author.

He began writing while still at school and became a volunteer and editor at the youth magazine Start in 1947. A copy of Start with an article by Kohlhaase also reached the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp where Kohlhaase senior was in 1947. His father thus rose in prestige with the prison authorities; he received both more food and easier work and was thus able to survive the camp.

He was a German film director and was one of the GDR's most well-known and prolific film screenwriters.

In collaboration with director Gerhard Klein he created the so-called 'Berlin Films', a popular genre about young East Berliners inspired by Italian neorealism.

In 1980, along with Konrad Wolf, he co-directed the film Solo Sunny. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where Renate Krößner won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

One of his hobby 'ss was boxing; for decades he boxed in the senior group at SG Narva.

He was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.

Kohlhaase had his first articles published while still attending school. Later on he worked as trainee writer for youth journals and as assistant Dramaturge for DEFA before becoming a freelancer in 1952.

From 1950 to 1952, he worked as a dramaturgy assistant at DEFA in Potsdam-Babelsberg.