Karl Fruchtmann

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Karl Fruchtmann (born December 10, 1915 in Meuselwitz ; † June 10, 2003 in Bremen ) was a German director , author and filmmaker .

Life

Karl Fruchtmann was born into a Polish-Jewish family. He grew up with four siblings in the small town of Meuselwitz in Thuringia. In 1936 he and his brother Max were deported to the Sachsenburg concentration camp near Chemnitz. Karl Fruchtmann later came to the Dachau concentration camp , from where he was released again in 1937 with the assurance that he would leave Germany immediately. In the same year he emigrated to Palestine . He spent some time in London and New York in the 1950s. In 1958 he returned to Germany and learned the cinematic craft at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (television). He directed for the first time in 1962; In 1963 he began working with Radio Bremen , where he often shot with the cameraman Günther Wedekind . He also worked as a director in theaters.

In 1991 he was awarded the Culture and Peace Prize of the Villa Ichon in Bremen .

He was with the Canadian painter Janet, b. Clothier, married. His older brother was the writer Benno Fruchtmann .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1963: Preparations for a death
  • 1969: Kaddish for a living person
  • 1974: Ward 6
  • 1978: a simple person
  • 1978: Gesche Gottfried
  • 1981: Priam's treasure
  • 1981: Witnesses - testimony to the murder of a people
  • 1999: a single murder

Literary work, video, audio

  • Jack Popplewell , - (German edit.): A death is being prepared. Detective piece in 3 acts .
  • Someone. A pantomime monologue. For Ulla to play . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964.
  • Suddenly. Piece in one act . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1966.
  • John B. Priestley , - (Translator): To the rose and crown. A play in one act . German amateur play publisher, Weinheim an der Bergstrasse 1966.
  • Witnesses. Statements about the murder of a people. Documentary in two parts. TV broadcast, June 5, 1994 (part 1) . 1 video cassette (SVHS, 120+ min, sp, mono, color). ARD, s. l. 1982.
  • Witnesses. Statements about the murder of a people . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-462-01520-6 .
  • Martin Walser, - (Staging.): Martin Walser, In Goethes Hand. Scenes from the 19th century. Akademietheater, 1982/83 season, issue 3. Program booklet . Accompanying materials: cast sheet. Austrian Federal Theater Association, Vienna 1983.
  • -, Jakow Silberberg, Rachel Vidal: A simple person . 1 video cassette (VHS, 105 min, sp, mono, color). arte, s. l. 1994.
  • The pit. Screenplay for a film . Donat, Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-931737-44-6 .

Awards

literature

  • Torsten Musial, Nicky Rittmeyer (ed.): Karl Fruchtmann. A Jewish narrator . edition text + kritik, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86916-751-0 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists 1933 to 1945. With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the kindergarten of psychology . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 13, 1971, p. 6, top right.
  2. ↑ Karl Fruchtmann Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
  3. ↑ Permalink German National Library .
  4. ↑ Permalink German National Library .
  5. ↑ Permalink German National Library .
  6. ↑ Permalink German National Library .
  7. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  8. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  9. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
personal data
SURNAME Fruchtmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2003
Place of death Bremen