Claus Hardt

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Claus Hardt (born June 15, 1925 in Germany , † July 8, 2014 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a German journalist , screenwriter , line producer and film producer .

Life

Hardt had settled in Munich after the Second World War and began to work there as a journalist and film journalist. In 1954 he was actively involved in a cinema production for the first time (as an unnamed script editor for the classic war film 08/15 written by Ernst von Salomon ). In the following year he worked as a dialogue author (for “Gesperrte Weg”) and now also named screenwriter (for OW Fischer's Ich sucht Dich ) for the film. In 1956 Hardt worked again with Fischer (on the melodrama My Father, the Actor ) and for the first time also took on the position of production manager. He then worked in this field for various companies (including Divina and Kurt Ulrich) until the end of the 1950s.

On this path into the production area, Hardt founded the joint film production company TV-60 with his author colleague Utz Utermann in 1960 , which in the following three years made some very successful cinema productions ("Pater Brown" films) with Heinz Rühmann . After 1963, however, hardly any movies were made there. In 1978 the company was transformed into TV60Filmproduktion GmbH. In place of the retired Utermann, Hardt's colleague Bernd Burgemeister was added. Hardt, in turn, left this company in 1991. Claus Hardt was also the founder and long-time chairman of the Federal Association of German Television Producers, one of the three founding associations of the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television. His first wife (from 1955) was the journalist Lore Augstein, Rudolf Augstein's first wife.

Filmography (selection)

as line producer or film producer, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 599.

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personal data
SURNAME Hardt, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2014
Place of death Los Angeles , United States