Fritz Lehmann (cameraman)

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Fritz Lehmann (born January 12, 1912 in Großröhrsdorf , Saxony , † December 26, 2006 in Ramelsloh , Lower Saxony ) was a German cameraman .

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Born in Saxony, he had to break off his training as an engineer as a result of the catastrophic economic conditions in Germany at the end of the 1920s and instead began to turn to photography. In 1931/32 Lehmann studied photography and film at the State School for Photography in Munich .

He began his practical career in 1933 as a cameraman for the small Dresden production company Boehner-Film, to which he would remain associated for ten years. During this time, the documentary film We drive to America 1938 was his first major work for the cinema. Lehmann toured the US cities of New York City , Chicago , Detroit , Washington, DC , Pittsburgh , Philadelphia , Atlantic City and Mount Vernon for this production . The film, which was premiered in Hamburg on January 15, 1939 , was an advertising production for the USA and was only allowed to be shown in closed morning events in front of guests invited in writing on the instructions of the film inspection agency. It was accepted into the American Federal Archives in Washington as a masterpiece of the German film industry.

From 1944 Lehmann was stationed as a soldier in Italy and then interned as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 1947 . Back in Germany, Lehmann served as a cameraman for DEFA from 1948 to 1954 and photographed a number of feature films of minor importance in Berlin-Johannisthal and Babelsberg . In 1955 Lehmann moved to the Federal Republic and from then on worked as a freelancer. He could hardly get any more commissions for feature films.

Finally, Fritz Lehmann was in Hamburg-Rahlstedt down and was in the early 60s for the NDR as a cinematographer and camera assistant on several successful crime series from Studio Hamburg involved. Since then, Lehmann has only been shooting industrial and cultural films, but since founding his own company HKF (Hanseatic-Kontakt-Film Hamburg) in 1961, primarily for advertising. He also dealt with the development of the improved front projection with pan and zoom based on his own patents. From 1977 Lehmann concentrated entirely on front projection in film and television and associated tricks such as dual screen and traveling mats in his company Frontpro-Technik F. Lehmann.

Lehmann spent his twilight years in the Lower Saxony Seevetal - Ramelsloh at the gates of Hamburg. There he died at the age of almost 95.

Filmography

  • 1938: We're Going to America (Documentary)
  • 1940: Trip to Karlovy Vary. In a Volkswagen on Goethe's footsteps from Weimar to Karlsbad (short documentary film)
  • 1941: Buildings in New Germany (short documentary film)
  • 1949: Quartet of five
  • 1950: The happy people's boat
  • 1950: Teacher Heider
  • 1950: The boys from Kranichsee
  • 1951: The Sonnenbrucks
  • 1951: career in Paris
  • 1953: jacket and pants
  • 1954: Carola Lamberti - One from the circus
  • 1954: The Lost City - Dresden (documentary film)
  • 1956: Max and Moritz
  • 1960: Secret of a Steel (short documentary)
  • 1960: It all started with the 'Adler' (short documentary film)
  • 1961: From producer to consumer (short documentary film)
  • 1962: Stahlnetz (an episode of the TV crime series)
  • 1963: Port Police (TV crime series, camera assistant)

literature

  • Camera Guide 94th year book of the BVK Bundesverband Kamera eV, p. 33. Munich 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German Feature Film Almanach 1929-1950, 2nd edition Munich 1976. P. 483 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Großröhrsdorf , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2006
Place of death Ramelsloh , Lower Saxony