Carlos Dudek
Carlos Dudek , bourgeois Wilhelm Julius Carl Dudek (born September 5, 1910 in Essen - Stoppenberg , † February 23, 1992 in Munich ), was a German architect .
life and work
Carlos Dudek was born in Stoppenberg (Essen) in 1910. In 1935 he passed the examination to become a qualified economist in Hamburg , two years later he became a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts as an architect . The stage name Carlos Dudek was officially approved as an official pseudonym for him in 1954.
After the Second World War, he became known as an interior designer in the construction and reconstruction of numerous cinemas and theaters, for which he mostly designed the interior with lighting, water organs and colorful furniture. He worked for various cinema companies and film distributors who rebuilt, renovated or completely rebuilt their movie theaters. These included the Tivoli (1949), the Urania-Filmbühne (1951) and the Kleine Komödie (1953) in Hamburg. After moving to Munich, he designed various Gloria film studios and film theaters, including in Munich (Gloria-Filmpalast in Laim , 1955) and Frankfurt am Main . His film house built in 1953in Spitalerstraße has the first helicopter landing pad in the city center of Hamburg on its roof. In 1948 he worked on the reconstruction of the Lichtburg in his hometown of Essen.
From 1948 Carlos Dudek was an architect for the young film Union of Rolf Meyer worked that in a restaurant in 1948 by building the first productions Bendestorf erected. The atelier hall of the film studios, designed by Dudek in 1950, with an area of around 1000 square meters, is considered remarkable for its time .
In the 1950s, Dudek built houses, villas, country houses and holiday homes for film people, film stars and industrialists in and outside Germany. Customers were, for example, Aenne Burda , Gert-Rudolf Flick , Willy Messerschmitt , Hans-Günther Sohl and the industrialist Carl Adolf Vogel . Dudek died in Munich in 1992 at the age of 81.
literature
- Klaus Lange: The park of Villa Sohl. A later landscape garden in Düsseldorf-Hubbelrath , in: Denkmalplege im Rheinland 29 (2012) Heft 3, pp. 97-108
- Walfried Malleskat: 100 years of Rolf Meyer. The Junge Film-Union in Bendestorf , brochure for the special exhibition 2010 in the Bendestorf Film Museum , October 2010.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dudek, Carlos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dudek, Wilhelm Julius Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essen - Stoppenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1992 |
| Place of death | Munich |