Curt Linda

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Curt Linda (born April 23, 1919 in Budweis (today České Budějovice, Czech Republic ), † April 30, 2007 in Aschheim ) was a German animation filmmaker and film producer .

Life

Linda came as the son of the actor Josef Linda and his wife Maria, geb. German to the world. In 1909 his father opened the first movie theater in Budweis. After the Second World War , Curt Linda , who was engaged at the Munich Residenztheater , played minor roles and worked as a writer and director for the dubbing department of Bavaria-Film . In 1960 he was hired by the film director František Čáp as a screenwriter, assistant director and actor for the Yugoslav film Spion X-25 ( X-25 Javlja ), which was set during the German occupation . This engagement was followed by a one-year internship at the animation department of Triglav-Film in Ljubljana and at the animation studio of Zagreb-Film. Back in Germany, he worked part-time in the production team of the ARD series Caution Camera! Moderated by Chris Howland . With. In December 1961 Curt Linda founded his own animation studio Linda-Film Produktion in Munich - in the three-story garden building of the famous Art Nouveau building at Ainmillerstraße No. 22.

The themes of his first three animated short films were based on his own short stories written for Bayerischer Rundfunk : Linda's first animated film Doppelter Saldo tells the story of a shopkeeper who becomes the owner of a department store through dubious credit schemes with banks and a cleverly simulated bankruptcy. With pardon , Linda used a "stain technique", which was later also used for the skins of the animals in The Conference of Animals , in which no drawn-out figures are created, but outlines, heads and limbs of the figures develop from a stain-like structure. In 1967, Linda received the silver ribbon for his short film The Specialist .

In order to find a distributor for his first feature film project, Linda invested the cash bonus from the Federal Film Prize in a pilot film. In view of the popularity of the author Erich Kästner , he chose his parable The Conference of Animals as material . This first full-length German cartoon in color was a great commercial success at home and abroad and became a classic for children's films.

Against the backdrop of the 400th anniversary of Johannes Kepler's death in 1971, Linda conducted extensive research for an animated film about the tragic life story of the astronomer. Despite well advanced preparations, the project failed in 1970 when the Federal Foreign Ministry withdrew as a co-producer. The documentary short film Charlotte Salomon - A Diary in Pictures 1917-1943 , in which Charlotte Salomon's diary-like pictures depict the life of the Jewish woman who died in 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp, found international recognition .

In the 1970s, Linda worked almost exclusively for television. For ZDF he produced the animation series Stories from History , which tells of the deeds of Heracles and, due to its great success, is continued with the adventures of Odysseus . Later a legend parody of the Nibelungs and the cartoon series King Ortnit were created for ZDF . For the television series Larry's Showtime , Linda designed the cat "Larry", which was copied as an animated character in music contributions by popular American singing stars. As founder and board member of the German group " Association internationale du film d'animation ", Curt Linda took part in an ASIFA project in the mid-1970s: animators from 19 European countries produced a total of 39 contributions for the series Märchen der Völker , which was broadcast in the Federal Republic of the ZDF. Linda's contribution, based on Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine , tells the fantastic-erotic story of a sea mermaid fighting for her soul and love for a person. In the Opera presto series , Linda parodied 13 different opera classics in ten-minute films.

Curt Linda took up the biblical legend of Joseph with his cinema production Shalom Pharao . Premiered at the end of the 87th German Catholic Convention in Düsseldorf in 1982 , the film tells the story of Joseph, sold as a slave by his brothers, who made a career in ancient Egypt as the pharaoh's dream interpreter . In Harold and the Ghosts , Linda combined a full-length film plot drawn throughout with real film sequences: the main character Harold and the ghosts living in his castle ruins are drawn. A female spirit, for whose release from a curse a quarrel breaks out between Harold and the spirits, is embodied by a real actress ( Ursula Karven ).

The little ghost (based on the story ofthe same name by Otfried Preußler ) tells of a ghost that accidentally wakes up during the day and cannot find its way to its castle in the light of the brightness. Die kleine Zauberflöte , loosely based on the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was Linda's last full-length production. In 1998 he closed his animation studio in Munich-Schwabing and withdrew from production. In 2001 he received the honorary award of the German Film Prize for outstanding services to German film. In 1969 Linda had already been awarded the German Critics' Prize.

Curt Linda died on April 30, 2007 in his home in Aschheim.

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