Friedl Behn-Grund
Friedl Behn-Grund (born August 26, 1906 as Karl Friedrich Behn in Bad Polzin (now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland ), † August 2, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman .
Life
The son of the theater manager Otto Gottschalk and the actress Emmy Behn grew up with his mother in Germany, in different places. In 1918 they came to Berlin; In the following year he had his first film appearance as a child actor.
In 1924 he took up an assistant position at Ufa cameraman Erich Waschneck , who employed him as a second cameraman. In 1925, Waschneck entrusted him for the first time with independent camera work for his film Kampf um die Scholle . He named him Friedl in the opening credits and Behn-Grund kept this form of name from then on for all other productions. He had already taken over the addition of the name reason from a love affair with his mother.
In 1929 he shot Leo Mittler's Jenseits der Straße for the Prometheus film . Contemporary critics praised Behn-Grund's realistic images in an otherwise melodramatic film. Behn-Grund was also working for Terra Film and Nero-Film at the time. It was with the latter that he came into contact with talkies for the first time , for example in Richard Oswald's Vienna, you city of songs (1930). In the early 1930s he worked several times with Oswald.
From 1936 to 1945 Friedl Behn-Grund was employed by Tobis . In addition to numerous entertainment films, he also made I accuse and the lavish Titanic . On the last day of the war, he was injured by a grenade and lost a leg.
In the early years of DEFA he was responsible for the recordings of important films such as Wolfgang Staudte's The Murderers Are Among Us , as well as Marriage in the Shadow and The Council of Gods by Kurt Maetzig . From 1950 Behn-Grund worked as a freelance cameraman in West Germany, where he, among other things, The flying classroom , Gerhard Lamprecht's successful film My Father's Horses Part I Lena and Nicoline and My Father’s Horses Part II His Third Wife and the Thomas Mann film adaptations Buddenbrooks and confessions of the impostor Felix Krull . His last feature film was made in 1966, after which he worked for television, most recently he made medical educational films in 1970/71 .
Friedl Behn-Grund, married to Babi Mayer-Seebohm since April 12, 1933, was an honorary member of the Federal Camera Association (BVK). In 1974 he was awarded the gold film ribbon.
Awards
- 1949: National Prize of the GDR 2nd class in the collective for Ehe im Schatten and Die Buntkarierte
- 1950: National Prize of the GDR 1st class in the collective for The Council of Gods
- 1956: Film tape in silver (best camera work) for a girl from Flanders
- 1974: Filmband in gold for many years of outstanding work in German film
- 1986: German camera award, special award as old master of the camera
Filmography
literature
- Matias Bleckmann, Jörg Schöning (MBM, JPS): Friedl Behn-Grund - cameraman , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Volume 15 (1989)
Web links
- Friedl Behn-Grund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Friedl Behn-Grund at filmportal.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Behn-Grund, Friedl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Behn, Karl Friedrich (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Polzin (today: Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland) |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1989 |
Place of death | Berlin |