Wolfgang Schleif

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Wolfgang Schleif (born May 14, 1912 in Leipzig , † August 21, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German film editor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Wolfgang Schleif studied philosophy, education and psychology at the University of Leipzig . In 1934 he passed the state examination for teaching at the elementary school. But then he took lessons at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he trained in directing.

From 1935 he worked in film, from 1938 as an assistant director , from 1939 as a screenwriter and finally as an editor. Among other things, he was responsible for editing the propaganda films Jud Suss (1940) and Kolberg (1945). Nevertheless, Schleif was taken over by DEFA in 1947 . In 1948 he directed the anti-capitalist production Grube Morgenrot for the first time, followed in 1949 by Johann Friedrich Böttger's film biography Die Blaue Schwerter .

After June 17, 1953 , Schleif went to West Germany. With the children's and homeland film Die Mädels vom Immenhof in 1955 he achieved an extraordinary success, which for years also focused his work on the staging of such materials. He shot several hit films with Freddy Quinn in the spotlight, but also war films like Rommel calls Kairo and crime films like Der Rote Rausch and, in the early 1970s, the Immenhof stragglers Die Zwillinge vom Immenhof and Frühling auf Immenhof .

Since the mid-1960s, Schleif worked intensively for television. He has often directed series and multi-part films, particularly the five-part Russian Civil War (1967).

He was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery.

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SURNAME Schleif, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1984
Place of death Berlin