- 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.
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