Gunther Scholz was born 1944 in Goerlitz, Germany. Scholz completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter, before changing to drama and directing in 1967.

He became an assistant director at the DEFA studios and worked as a director there as of 1978. Since 1991 he has worked as a freelance author and director for television series and documentaries on the ARD, ZDF, SAT 1, and RTL networks. His documentary Einschub in den Bericht des Politbueros (1998) was awarded the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Short Film Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.

Filmography

Feature Films: Ein April hat 30 Tage (April Has 30 Days) 1978; Ab heute erwachsen (Adult after Today) 1985; Vernehmung der Zeugen (Interrogation of the Witnesses) 1987; Das Licht der Liebe (The Light of Love) 1980. Documentaries: Insertion to the Polit Office Report (Einschub in den Bericht des Politbueros) 1998; Fat Lipinski (Der dicke Lipinski) 1984; Hermann Henselmann. Architect 1905 (Hermann Henselmann. Architekt, Jahrgang 1905) 1986; Once Upon A Wednesday (Es war einmal ein Mittwoch) 1988; That Was The DDR: Part III (Das war die DDR: Teil III) 1994; When The Wall Came Tumbling Down (Als die Mauer fiel) 1998. Television: Imken, Anna and Maria (Imken, Anna und Maria) 1994; Crimes That Made History (Verbrechen, die Geschichte machten) 1996; Holy Are The Poor (Selig sind die Armen) 1996; Felix – A Friend for Life (Felix - ein Freund fuers Leben) 1996; I Killed Him (Ich habe ihn umgebracht) 1998.