Friedl Behn-Grund

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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.

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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