Hartmann Schmige studied journalism, sociology, and political science in Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin with a masters final thesis in the montage theories by Eisenstein, Kracauer and Bazin.
In the 1980s Hartmann Schmige became renowned for writing the Dieter Hallervorden feature films together with writer Christian Rateuke.
Non-Stop Trouble with My Double [de] marks one of Hartmann Schmige's biggest successes.
Book: Eisenstein, Bazin, Kracauer |1977| About Film Montage Theory Schmige also wrote the musical Schlemihl in 1987 together with Christian Rateuke.
Other episodes (since 2000) for popular German crime series such as Sperling, Ein Fall für zwei, Der Ermittler and Tatort.