Ernst W. Kalinke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ernst-Wilhelm Kalinke (often as Ernst W. Kalinke , born September 23, 1918 in Berlin , † January 14, 1992 in Munich ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Ernst W. Kalinke trained as a film copyist and was a camera assistant from 1934. As chief cameraman he only came into play after the Second World War. Kalinke made mostly homeland films and comedies in the 1950s .

In the 1960s, Kalinke became the first choice when shooting the Karl May films and Edgar Wallace films . He captured the start of the Karl May films The Treasure in Silbersee on celluloid, as did the Winnetou trilogy . The first Edgar Wallace film , The Frog with the Mask , goes to his account as well as the particularly successful productions The Eerie Monk and The Blue Hand .

In later years Kalinke was behind the camera for very different projects, such as Ludwig Ganghofer film adaptations, but also for ambitious work such as Anita Drögemöller and the rest of the Ruhr and Der Bockerer . He was also responsible for several Lederhosen films , and with Die liebestollen Lederhosen from this genre he was responsible for his only directorial work under a pseudonym. In the last years of his life he limited himself to additional recordings like Schtonk! by Helmut Dietl . The grave of Ernst W. Kalinke is in Baierbrunn near Munich.

Filmography

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kalinke, Ernst W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalinke, Ernst-Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1992
Place of death Munich