Fritz Thiery

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Fritz Thiery , born as Friedrich Philipp Thiery (born December 19, 1899 in Mannheim ; † March 2, 1986 ) was a German sound engineer , film producer and film director .

Life

Thiery studied engineering and then, working for Siemens , did research in the field of electroacoustics . In addition, he also worked as a trainer. Prepared in this way, the largest German film production company, UFA , hired him and made him their first sound engineer. In this role, Thiery was responsible for sound engineering not only the very first UFA sound film Melodie des Herzens with Willy Fritsch and Dita Parlo , but also a number of the following top UFA films such as The Blue Angel , The Congress Dances , A Blonder Traum , FP1 does not answer , Viktor and Viktoria and Amphitryon - happiness comes from the clouds .

From the beginning of March to May 1938, Thiery took a break and went to Vienna to direct the film Princess Sissy, which cost 381,000 Reichsmarks, for the Austrian production company Mondial . The male lead actor Paul Hörbiger was responsible for the dialogue . The film about the young Bavarian princess and later Empress Austria-Hungary is considered the first Sissi film in history. In the middle of the shooting, the Anschluss of Austria fell .

Back in Berlin, Thiery also took over the management of the UFA film department in 1939/1940, and in 1940 he ended his audio work. After directing Josef von Baky's UFA anniversary film Münchhausen , Fritz Thiery was hired as a film producer for the remaining two years of the war. During this time he produced several ambitious film biographies and literary adaptations, mostly in his own production group.

The US-American, allied occupation authorities appointed Thiery as trustee of Bavaria Filmkunst on November 1, 1946 . As its managing director, he was responsible for managing the company and overseeing the film production. In the years to come, he only appeared once as a producer, in 1953 at the confusion game Musik bei Nacht , produced by Helios Filmproduktion on the Geiselgasteig site under the direction of Kurt Hoffmann . In March 1956, Thiery was promoted to the company's executive board. As a result of a catastrophic financial year 1956/57, both Bavaria board member Peter Ostermayr and Bavaria board member Thiery resigned from their offices on November 26, 1958. Then Fritz Thiery retired to Grünwald for private life .

Filmography

As a sound engineer

As a production manager or production manager or producer

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 742.
  • 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. 1727.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the Kay Less film archive , based on information from a southern German registration authority
  2. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 10th year 1939, p. 147. Berlin 1999
  3. ↑ The Spiegel article Bavaria. A new era?
personal data
SURNAME Thiery, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiery, Friedrich Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer, film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1986