Franz Josef Wild
Franz Josef Dietrich Wild (born June 4, 1922 in Riedenburg, Upper Palatinate , † April 10, 1998 in Munich ) was a German director and pioneer of domestic television.
Live and act
The son of forester Bernhard Wild had passed the Abitur in 1939 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . Then, in World War II , Wild did his military service. Back in civil life, Wild received artistic training at the Otto Falckenberg School and worked as an actor at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1945 to 1952 . There he learned everything about directing as assistant to artistic director Erich Engel . Wild staged plays for the first time in the 1950s, and later also several operas. Wild was involved in building German post-war television almost from the start. In the period that followed , he directed a wealth of television films for Bayerischer Rundfunk , mostly productions based on literary sources. He has also produced a wide variety of BR films by hand. Johnny Belinda , the story of a deaf-mute girl played by Violetta Ferrari , had a measured visual participation rate of 78 percent and an extremely high level of approval in 1961 (according to Infratest : +9). From 1956 until his retirement in 1988, Wild also acted as senior game director and head of the BR's television game department.
His only excursion to the movie Ms. Cheney's End , based on a model by Frederick Lonsdale , found little support despite the prominent cast - the married couple Lilli Palmer and Carlos Thompson as well as Martin Held played the leading roles.
In his television career spanning almost three and a half decades, Franz Josef Wild has worked with a number of important German-speaking actors. The list ranges from Camilla Horn , Peter Pasetti , Karlheinz Böhm and Paul Hubschmid in the 50s to Hildegard Knef , Adolf Wohlbrück and Rudolf Forster in the 60s, Albert Lieven , Barbara Rütting , Dietmar Schönherr and Elfriede Irrall in the 70s Judy Winter , Elfriede Kuzmany , Heidelinde Weis , Maria Schell and Christa Berndl in the 80s. He repeatedly worked with Carl-Heinz Schroth , Hans Reiser , Gertrud Kückelmann , Hannes Messemer , Gustav Knuth and Ruth-Maria Kubitschek .
Several times, such as the creation of the scripts for Die Rote Rosa, The Conspiracy, The Deadly Strike and Mrs. Jenny Treibel , the author Wild collaborated with the Tuebingen philosophy professor Walter Jens . W. mainly stages theater-style plays and prefers the electronic recording process in order to make “the language of the human face” as effective as possible, in contact with the television viewers who are not arrogantly instructed and should not be hurt. He himself said: "I am relatively certain that outsiders see an honest presentation of conventional drama as a sign of my efforts."
Wild had been married to Dorothea Siersetzki since 1947 and had two daughters with her. For a while he also taught at the University of Television and Film in Munich .
Filmography
as a director on television, unless otherwise stated.
This list is incomplete.
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Individual evidence
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1886.
- Who is who? The German Who's Who . Issue XXIII 1983, p. 1320
- Egon Netenjakob: TV film lexicon. Directors, authors, dramaturges 1952-1998 . Frankfurt am Main 1994. p. 429 ff.
- Franz Josef Wild , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1992 from May 11, 1992, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Franz Josef Wild in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franz Josef Wild at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wild, Franz Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wild, Franz Josef Dietrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, screenwriter and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riedenburg, Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1998 |
| Place of death | Munich |