Ernst Krüger (producer)

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Ernst Krüger (born March 25, 1898 in Graudenz ; † February 19, 1995 in Wiesbaden ) was a German film producer and association official of the FSK .

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Born in West Prussia and the son of a lawyer, Ernst R. Krüger attended the naval school in Mürwik (a well-known district of Flensburg ) after attending grammar school in his native Graudenz . Subsequently, from 1915 to 1919, he served as an active naval officer and studied political science in Berlin until 1924 (doctorate).

Before he was hired by the UFA film company in 1932 , Dr. Krüger held various positions at Deutsche Bank in Berlin, the Telegraphen-Union intelligence service belonging to the Hugenberg empire , the Hugo Stinnes group, Telefunken GmbH and the Deutsches Gewerbehaus. From 1926 to 1928 he was working in Turkey .

In the winter of 1933/34 Krüger began his practical film work as a production assistant for Karl Hartl's science fiction classic Gold with Hans Albers , and the following year he founded his own production unit with the Krüger-Ulrich production group. Until 1938, Ernst Krüger and his partner Hans-Herbert Ulrich had produced a wealth of entertainment films with little depth for a wide variety of companies. After his production management of the Terra adventure film Fire in the Ocean , he was reactivated when the war broke out in 1939 and served as the reserve corvette captain for the entire duration of the war .

Krüger's return to civilian life took place in 1946 when he was appointed deputy director at the Flensburg Municipal Theaters for three years . With the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949) Ernst Krüger entered the service of the recently founded Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry , or FSK for short. Krüger quickly made a career there: in 1954 he became chairman of the working committee and in 1960 head of the FSK.

In 1970/71 Krüger visited ministries, parliaments and authorities and even Federal President Gustav Heinemann in order to prevent the ban on pornography from falling away in the wake of the sex wave . He always showed three separate cut roles, one with violence and two with sex scenes, which, as he said, were cut on the instructions of the FSK and had not been shown in German cinemas. He finally got the promise of the chairman of the decisive criminal law reform special committee Adolf Müller-Emmert that not only the FSK was absolutely worth preserving, but also that during the deliberations of paragraph 184, contrary to the government draft, public porn film screenings should continue to be prohibited.

1979 Krüger became chairman of the FSK appeal committee. It was not until 1986 that he left the FSK at the age of 88. His prominent functionary posts earned him recognition at home and abroad. For example, Krüger was a member of the jury at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1962, and in 1976 the recipient of the Great Federal Cross of Merit (1959) was awarded the Gold Film Ribbon for his many years of service to the German film industry.

In his free time, Krüger occupied himself with drawing and painting (he published a book, Joy in Drawing ). In 1967 his works could be viewed in an exhibition in his adopted home Wiesbaden.

Films (as production or line manager)

  • 1935: Sustaining society
  • 1935: The monastery hunter
  • 1936: Vogelöd Castle
  • 1936: a strange guest
  • 1936: honeymoon
  • 1936: The hour of temptation
  • 1936: Standschütze Bruggler
  • 1936: Men before marriage
  • 1936: Annemarie
  • 1936: The Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1936: The beautiful Fraulein Schragg
  • 1937: The silence in the forest
  • 1937: The secret of Betty Bonn
  • 1937: Two by two in a four-poster bed
  • 1937: Thunderstorm in May
  • 1937: Between the parents
  • 1938: triad
  • 1938: rubber
  • 1939: Fire in the ocean

literature

  • Who is who? The German who's who. Volume XXII. Lübeck 1983, p. 700 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 245 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and FSK association official
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1995
Place of death Wiesbaden