Über Land

Secret of the Midwife

Die Tote im Moorwald

Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar

Andreas Hofer

Die Rosenheim-Cops

SOKO Kitzbühel

Madame Bäurin

Der Leibwächter

Kir Royal

Das Hintertürl zum Paradies

Magdalena

Ich werde warten

Menschen

Trokadero

Der falsche Pass für Tibo

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Zeit zum Aufstehen

Je später der Abend

Polizeiruf 110

Scene of the Crime

Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst

New Perspectives

Música Para Si

Trip to Happiness

Jail Bait

Franz Xaver Kroetz (German: [fʁant͡s ˈksaː.vɐ kʁœt͡s] ; born 25 February 1946) is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. He achieved great success beginning in the early 1970s. Persistent, Farmyard, and Request Concert, all written in 1971, are some of the works conventionally associated with Kroetz.
Kroetz is part of a generation of playwrights who modified the critical folk-piece, emphasizing in his works of the early 1970s the underside of West Germany's affluence through realistic portrayals of the lives of the poor. He later began writing for television, which led to a wider audience. His more analytical, Brecht-influenced plays were generally not well-received, though Upper Austria (1972) and The Nest (1974) achieved critical and commercial success. Some later works of social realism like Through the Leaves (1976) and Tom Fool (1978) are also highly regarded.
Kroetz's plays have been translated and performed internationally. Simon Stephens argued in 2016, "Kroetz was identifying how poverty can give rise to brutality, to cynicism, despair and fear. His plays are as resonant now as they've ever been."