Egon Schlegel
Egon Schlegel (born December 13, 1938 in Zwickau ; † February 22, 2013 in Groß Glienicke ) was a German film director , screenwriter and actor .
Life
Schlegel first completed an apprenticeship as an electrician before catching up on his Abitur at evening school and studying directing at the German Academy for Film Art Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1961 to 1966 . His planned graduation film Ritter des Regens , a co-production between the film school and the DEFA film studio shot with a hidden camera, among other things, had to be canceled during the shoot in 1965 during the 11th plenary session of the SED Central Committee . Schlegel was not taken over directly by DEFA afterwards, but from 1966 worked as assistant director to Andrew Thorndike in the DEFA studio for documentary films. He made his first documentary films as a director and appeared in the DEFA fairy tale film How do you marry a king? in a supporting role as a miracle doctor.
In 1972 Schlegel moved to the DEFA studio for feature films. After his first work as assistant director Ralf Kirstens on the film Unterm Birnbaum , Adventurer with Blasius Schlegel's first children's film came out in 1974 as a director. The German-Czechoslovak co-production was a great success and enabled Schlegel to continue working as a director. As a result, other fictional films were made for children: The comedy Who rips out straight from the devil (1979) based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm , the highly acclaimed youth drama The Horse Girl and Max and Seven and a Half Boys (1980). It was not until 1980 that Schlegel was permanently hired by the DEFA studio for feature films. His fifth children's film, Noah's Ark , was released in 1983 and is Schlegel's last feature film. The film received the Findlingspreis for feature film in 1983 .
In professional circles he was also known as a radio amateur . Here he was, among others, in the development of amateur radio - transceiver Teltow directly involved.
Schlegel last lived in Groß Glienicke near Potsdam , where he died in February 2013.
Filmography
- 1968: How do you marry a king? (Actor)
- 1969: Iron and Blood (Director, Screenplay)
- 1973: Unterm Birnbaum (assistant director)
- 1975: Till Eulenspiegel (actor)
- 1974: Adventure with Blasius (director)
- 1976: Front camera men (director)
- 1977: who's going to run away from the devil (director, screenplay)
- 1979: The Horse Girl (Director, Screenplay)
- 1980: Max and seven and a half boys (director, screenplay)
- 1983: Noah's Ark Shots (Director)
literature
- Egon Schlegel . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , p. 431.
Web links
- Biography on defa-stiftung.de
- Egon Schlegel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Egon Schlegel at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See DEFA Foundation newsletter, No. 1, February 2013, p. 6. (PDF; 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Werner Hegewald, DL2RD; Andreas Suske, DL9UNF: "40 years of Teltow - a birthday and a review" in Funkamateur , No. 3/2014 , p. 245
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlegel, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, screenwriter and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 2013 |
| Place of death | Great Glienicke |