Ferdinand Khittl
Ferdinand Khittl (born January 20, 1924 in Franzensbad , Czechoslovakia , † February 28, 1976 in Munich ) was a German film director and screenwriter . On February 28, 1962, he read the Oberhausen Manifesto on behalf of the DOC 59 group .
Life
Khittl was born in 1924 in Františkovy Lázně (Franzensbad) , which had belonged to the German Empire since 1938. During the Second World War he was captured by the Allies as a sailor in the German Navy. After his release, he lived in the Federal Republic of Germany and kept himself afloat with various odd jobs, including as a bricklayer, baker and chicken farmer.
In 1951 he got a job as a representative of a small cinema distributor. Three years later he worked as a volunteer director on the experimental art documentary Die Ewige Kunde . He also worked as a film editor for Luis Trenker .
He then made a number of short and documentary films, mostly on behalf of the Society for Visual Films .
On April 9, 1959, he founded the DOC 59 group in Munich together with Haro Senft , Enno Patalas , Hans Posegga and others . The aim of the association was to renew German cinema and to promote the young film to the public. This led to the elaboration of the Oberhausen Manifesto , which was read out by Khittl in 1962 and heralded a radical turnaround in the German film landscape.
In 1962 he presented his first and only feature film, Die Parallelstrasse . Embedded in a framework story, documentary recordings are used here that Khittl made together with his cameraman Ronald Martini on two world trips in 1959 and 1960 in Asia, Africa and South America. Although the film received a lot of attention at the Cannes and San Sebastián festivals , Khittl was largely denied recognition in Germany.
Ferdinand Khittl died on February 28, 1976 at the age of 52 in Munich. In 1982 he was awarded the German Film Prize as a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto posthumously with the honorary award “for outstanding services to German film” .
Filmography
- 1954: The Eternal Customer (short film) - co-director
- 1954: Cavaliers in the ice (short film) - cut
- 1955: Behavior is a matter of luck - editing
- 1956: Let's go (short film) - director
- 1957: Hungary in Flames - director
- 1958: Großmarkthalle (short film) - director
- 1959: A city celebrates its birthday (short film) - director, screenplay
- 1960: The Magic Band (short film) - director, screenplay
- 1962: The parallel street - director
Awards
- 1956: Silver film tape in the "Best Color Short Film" category (Let's go)
- 1959: Silver film tape in the “Best Short Film” category (A city celebrates its birthday)
- 1960: Silver film tape in the category "Best Short Short Film" (The Magic Tape)
- 1982: Honorary award for the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto (posthumous)
Web links
- Ferdinand Khittl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans Scheugl: Die Parallelstraße edition-filmmuseum.com, accessed on April 5, 2013
- ^ Ferdinand Khittl filmportal.de, accessed on April 5, 2013
- ↑ Olaf Möller: Ferdinand Khittl ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oberhausener-manifest.com, accessed on April 5, 2013
- ↑ Signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oberhausener-manifest.com, accessed on April 5, 2013
- ↑ 50 Years of Oberhausen Manifesto arsenal-berlin.de, May 2012, accessed on April 29, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khittl, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Franzensbad , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1976 |
| Place of death | Munich |