Erich Gusko

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Erich Gusko (born February 19, 1930 in Dresden ) is a German cameraman .

Life

In his hometown Gusko attended school and high school; Even before taking the Abitur in 1945, he was drafted into the Volkssturm . In 1946 he applied for an apprenticeship as a camera assistant at the medium-sized advertising film company Boehner-Film . About eight weeks later he received a contract of employment as an assistant at the DEFA production Saxony , the successor in public property transferred Boehner film . From 1949 Gusko became a cameraman for the DEFA studio for popular science films , later for the DEFA studio for feature films (1955).

In 1955 he worked for director Richard Groschopp together with Joachim Hasler for the first time as a cameraman for a full-length feature film, the production 52 weeks are a year . In the period that followed, Gusko was mainly involved in " spines ", film adaptations of literature, period films and contemporary productions. He was also a lecturer at the Babelsberg Film School, specializing in camera. His best-known works are The Rabbit I'm Me and The Girl on the Board by Kurt Maetzig , and The Third and Stone by director Egon Günther .

His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

Awards

literature

  • DEFA Foundation (ed.), Horst E. Brandt : We, the picture makers . Cameramen in the DEFA studio for feature films. Berlin 2007, pp. 90-94

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Gusko Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Gusko, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden