Jutta Goetze Jutta Goetze i(A8164 works by) (a.k.a. Jutta Erika Goetze)
Also writes as: Samantha Wilde
Born: Established: 1956
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Tanzania,
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East Africa, Africa,
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Gender: Female
Heritage: German
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BiographyHistory

Born on a coffee plantation in East Africa to German parents, Jutta Goetze spent her childhood on an orchard in Gippsland. She grew up speaking Swahili, Hindi, and German, the first two languages forgotten when she arrived in Australia. Goetze studied acting at Flinders University in South Australia before realising she was a writer, not an actor. Since she began at Crawfords in 1980, she has worked as a writer and script editor on a number of successful shows, as well as writing for children and young adults. In her adult years, Goetze has lived in semi-rural Cockatoo, situated in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.

Goetze's earliest television scripts were for Crawford Productions' Cop Shop. She has also written for Crawfords' The Flying Doctors and The Saddle Club. Goetze has written for a number of children's programs, including Sky Trackers and Lift Off for the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Horace and Tina for Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, and Wormwood (based on the Paul Jennings short stories) for Paul Barron's Great Western Entertainment. However, she has also written extensively for adult programs, including The Power and the Passion, Embassy, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Janus, Halifax f.p., Something in the Air, and Always Greener.

In 2008, Goetze and fellow script-writer Elizabeth Coleman collaborated to create Bed of Roses, for which Goetze also contributed scripts. Goetze had previously occupied a development role with Deadly, an animated children's series based on Morris Gleitzman's writing.

Goetze's work as a script editor/story consultant has been as extensive as her work as a script-writer, and includes feature films Finn and the Big Guy and Maestro, television advertisements, and the television programs Eugénie Sandler, PI; Good Guys, Bad Guys; Halifax f.p.; Simone De Beauvoir's Babies; Janus; Phoenix II; All the Rivers Run II; Acropolis Now; The Henderson Kids (series two); and Skyways.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Bed of Roses ( dir. Paul Moloney et. al. )agent 2008 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Ruby Entertainment , 2008-2011 10692770 2008 series - publisher film/TV humour

'Bed of Roses is about Louisa Atherton (Kerry Armstrong) handling her life after she discovers her husband has died in the arms of another woman, leaving her broke. She returns to her home town of Rainbow's End to live with her feisty mother, Minna (Julia Blake). Rainbow's End is in a 'growth corridor' with neighbouring town of Indigo. Besides problems with Minna, Louisa encounters trouble with her teenage daughter Holly (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence) and local residents. Louisa has few financial assets except "Mary Kelly's Shack" she inherited from her father. Louisa decides to demolish the shack and build a new house to sell. Holly has taken the death of her father very hard and insists on carrying around his ashes. Louisa's irresponsible driving results in numerous traffic offences, which she can ill afford.' (Production summary)

2009 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
form y separately published work icon Always Greener ( dir. Scott Hartford-Davis et. al. )agent Australia : Seven Network Southern Star Entertainment , 2001-2003 24553471 2001 series - publisher film/TV
2004 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2003 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2002 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
form y separately published work icon McLeod's Daughters ( dir. Ali Ali et. al. )agent Australia : Nine Network Southern Star Entertainment , 2001-2009 Z1858228 2001-2009 series - publisher film/TV
2006 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2004 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
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