Bernhard Redetzki

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Bernhard Redetzki (born May 17, 1907 in Skirwieth , Niederung district , East Prussia , German Reich ; † June 6, 1973 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German filmmaker (documentary and nature filmmaker) with an excursion to directing feature films.

Live and act

The son of the businessman Gustav Redetzki and his wife Emma Natau first attended secondary school and then a ballet school until he graduated as a ballet master. According to Glenzdorf's International Film Lexicon, he claims to have worked as a theater director and senior stage director afterwards, but the German stage yearbooks of that time nowhere show his name. During the Second World War Redetzki served in the Africa Corps Field Marshal Rommel and was eventually captured. He spent the rest of the war in the US POW camp at Camp Hearne in Texas. There Bernhard Redetzki played a key role in performances of the camp theater.

Back at home in Germany, Redetzki settled in Baden-Württemberg and founded his own small production company, Hansa-Filmproduktion Stuttgart, with which he specialized in the production of documentary films. From 1951 Redetzki produced and directed short films with his company that took him to Persia, Egypt, Lebanon, Madeira and even Japan. Redetzki benefited from his experience as a soldier in North Africa when he made his only feature film in 1954, Homesickness for Germany . Afterwards, with the founding of his new company, Bernhard Redetzki Film, which was based in his last place of residence, Esslingen, he concentrated again entirely on the production of nature and documentary films.

Filmography

As a director and producer of short documentaries, unless otherwise stated

  • 1949: Home is work (only direction)
  • 1951: The magic of romance
  • 1952: Persia, focus of the world (feature film)
  • 1952: clouds over Abadan
  • 1952: Dreamland
  • 1953: Five thousand years of Egypt
  • 1953: Mediterranean stroll
  • 1953 Treasury of the Pharaohs
  • 1954: Homesickness for Germany (only feature film direction)
  • 1955: Big city in the desert
  • 1955: Land of the Cedars
  • 1955: Tut-ench-Amon
  • 1955: Arabian thoroughbred
  • 1956: Flower in the Atlantic
  • 1956: Foray into Madeira
  • 1956: City in the ocean
  • 1957: Japan smiles again (feature film)
  • 1957: Face of a City (also screenplay)
  • 1957: encounter with Buddha
  • 1958: Two artists - one motif
  • 1960: Motive by the sea
  • 1963: Construction in the Middle East (medium-length film)

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, third volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1361 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film archive Kay Less
  2. ↑ Michael R. Waters: Lone Star Stalag. German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne. S., Texas A&M University Press 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Redetzki, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redetzky, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker (producer and director)
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Skirwieth , Niederung district , East Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1973
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar , Federal Republic of Germany