Anton Kutter

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Anton Kutter (born June 13, 1903 in Biberach an der Riß ; † February 1, 1985 ibid) was a German director , well-known amateur astronomer and designer of a new mirror telescope , the Kutter-Schiefspiegler .

Life

Anton Kutters observatory in Biberach an der Riss

Anton Kutter was born in the historic "Haus zum Kleeblatt" on the market square in Biberach. He attended high school in Ravensburg and then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart . Since 1922 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Alania Stuttgart .

But Kutter's great passion was film. After completing his studies, he went to Cologne in 1926 and worked at the “phototechnical laboratory” there. In the same year he made his first films, including a portrait of his hometown Biberach. From 1931 to 1949 he worked successfully for “ Bavaria-Filmkunst ” in Munich and was honored with two gold medals at the Venice Biennale . In 1936 he shot the docudrama "Ein Meer sinks" about a fictional conference about the pros and cons of the Atlantropa project. In 1939 he used material from the film projects Space Ship 18 and Incident in Space and created the science fiction film Space Ship I starts about a flight to the moon on June 13, 1963, his 60th birthday. In total, Kutter made over fifty documentaries and feature films .

After the Second World War, he took over the Biberach film theater from his father-in-law, which was operated by his son Adrian Kutter until 2007 with the second cinema, the “Urania Theater”, which opened in 1955 , and which is now known as the “Star Palace” with eight cinemas the most modern cinemas in the region.

In the Film and Cinema Museum Baden-Württemberg in the Biberach cinema center "Star Palace" his life and details of his films are presented.

astronomy

In addition to film, Kutter was very interested in astronomy . At the age of twelve he built his first telescope out of old glasses and a toy lens. During his studies he worked as an assistant at the Stuttgart public observatory and exchanged ideas with the famous lunar researcher Philipp Fauth . Throughout his life he was looking for the optically ideal telescope. Professor Anton Staus , the author of the work "Telescope mountings and their protective structures", made him aware of a type of telescope for which the Austrians J. Forster and Karl Fritsch applied for a patent in 1877 as the " Brachy telescope" (Greek for short ) had. Kutter took up the principle and developed it further, with the support of the opto-mechanical works Georg Tremel in Munich from 1936 . After four years of intensive work, the development was completed. During the war, he wrote a treatise about it, which appeared in 1953 under the title "The Schiefspiegler, a mirror telescope for high image definition" and included instructions for self-construction. Kutter's instructions met with great interest. In 1952 his telescope was presented in the USA . After a very positive report by the magazine “ Sky & Telescope ” in December 1958, Kutters Schiefspiegler became internationally known. About the Kosmos-Verlag , a kit for a telescope with 110 mm opening was from 1965 to 1974 offered its aesthetics Dieter Lichtenknecker came, the mechanics presented Manfred Wachter ago. Even today there are “fan communities” who produce Schiefspiegler themselves because of their excellent imaging performance.

After the war, Kutter set up his own observatory in Biberach , which was equipped with a Schiefspiegler with a main mirror measuring 30 cm. Kutter was an excellent speaker and you could hear the proverbial needle drop during his lectures. Since the 1970s he lived in seclusion with his family and died in 1985 after a long illness.

Names after Kutter

The asteroid (400308) 2007 TX 184 was named after Anton Kutter.

Filmography (selection)

Director

Printed publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Kutter in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).Template: JPL Small-Body Database Browser / Maintenance / Alt
  2. ↑ Ten farmers under one hat. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kutter, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and designer of the Kutter-Schiefspiegler
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1985
Place of death Biberach an der Riss