Claus Peter Witt
Claus Peter Witt (born March 24, 1932 in Berlin ; † May 8, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German television director , screenwriter , actor and dramaturge .
biography
After dropping out of law studies, Claus Peter Witt attended drama school and began his artistic career in 1952 as an actor and assistant director under Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Landestheater Darmstadt . In 1955 he moved to Wiesbaden as a dramaturge and director , and in 1957 to the City Theater of Konstanz . In 1960, Witt became director and chief dramaturge in Braunschweig .
In 1961 he went to the television department of NDR as assistant director and dramaturge under Egon Monk . His first television production followed in 1966, Koll by Hermann Moers . From 1966 he was a freelance director in Hamburg . One of his first larger works, The Gentlemen Ask for Cashier , came about through the death of the intended director John Olden . In 1983 he became program manager in the film and television division at Gruner + Jahr . From 1990 to 2002 Witt was the director of Lindenstrasse .
Claus Peter Witt was married to the actress Eva Zlonitzky . He was buried on June 9, 2017 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Awards
Witt received the Golden Camera for directing Die Gentlemen bitten zum Cashier .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1964: Coll
- 1964: As in bad novels
- 1965: The incorrigible
- 1965: Intercontinental Express (pilot episode)
- 1965: The smith of his luck
- 1966: The gentlemen ask for cash
- 1966: The incorrigible - nothing learned
- 1966: Social aristocrats
- 1967: The incorrigible and their optimism
- 1967: Palm tree in the rose garden
- 1968: The incorrigible ... and their worries
- 1969: The incorrigible ... and their knowledge of human nature
- 1969: Captain Harmsen
- 1969: Mathilde Möhring
- 1970: The case next door
- 1970: The model student
- 1970: The incorrigible ... and love
- 1970: Hamburg Transit
- 1971: The incorrigible ... and their pride
- 1971: Business with Plückhahn
- 1972: Hooper's last hunt
- 1972: Berlin, Keithstrasse 30
- 1973: Black Coffee
- 1974: Arms don't steal
- 1974: A divorced woman
- 1974: Local site lower left
- 1974: Prussian Parade No. 17
- 1975: stories from a class
- 1975: PS (Follow stories about the car )
- 1976: Oblomov's love
- 1977: The demons
- 1978: PS (Follow Brodzinski )
- 1978: fathers and sons
- 1979: Union of the Firm Hand (2 parts)
- 1979: Another opera
- 1979: PS (episode Feuerreiter )
- 1979: Two men around a stove
- 1979: A murder everyone commits
- 1980: Waldwinkel
- 1981: Password butterfly
- 1981: Kudenow or Weeping at Stranger Waters
- 1981: Country air
- 1981: Death of a student
- 1982: the blue bidet
- 1982: Foreign Country or When Freedom Was Still Available
- 1983: Those Drombuschs
- 1983: Consul Möller's heirs
- 1983: crime scene: flower dreams
- 1987: The Wilsheimers
- 1988: Lorentz & Sons
- 1988: Micha's escape
- 1989: The beggar from Kurfürstendamm
- 1990: Hotel Paradies
- 1990–2002: Lindenstrasse
- 1992: mother and sons
- 1996: Schlosshotel Orth
Web links
- Claus Peter Witt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claus Peter Witt: Film list Deutsches Filmhaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b TV director Claus Peter Witt has died. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH, May 19, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ according to the theater archive Kay Less .
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Claus Peter Witt
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Witt, Claus Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2017 |
Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |