Fritz Umgelter

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Fritz Umgelter in the early 1960s

Fritz Umgelter (born August 18, 1922 in Stuttgart ; † May 9, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German film and television director . Before his directing career, he also worked as an actor and set designer .

Life

Fritz Umgelter began as an actor at the Wiesbaden State Theater and took part in the Second World War. He then studied philology in Strasbourg, Tübingen and Munich. He first worked as a set designer in Tübingen , then as a theater director in Augsburg and Wiesbaden. In 1953, at the age of 31, he got a position as a director at the Hessischer Rundfunk , where from 1955 he was head of the television drama, entertainment and documents department.

His colleague Walter Oehmichen , whom he knew from the Augsburg City Theater, worked as a director in Frankfurt and persuaded him to work there as well. Since no recording technology was available, Fritz Umgelter staged eight live broadcasts from the Augsburger Puppenkiste for HR in 1953/54 . He worked as a freelance stage and television director in Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Munich and Vienna. He was a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts . His grave is in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart . His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Act

Umgelter directed a total of six films. While this film directing work was not given particular attention by the critics, his directing work and screenplays for television, for which he delivered over one hundred works of various types in different genres, were even perceived as television events. Fritz Umgelter was a director in numerous Tatort episodes. He also directed the lavish and internationally acclaimed series The Winter That Was a Summer (1976) about the intervention of German forced mercenaries in the American War of Independence . His last directorial work was six episodes for the ZDF series Das Traumschiff (1981).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

As speaker:

Award

In 1967 he was awarded the television film award for best director in fried potatoes included .

In 1971 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize from the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia for directing Like a tear in the ocean .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Umgelter Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
  2. ↑ http://www.dvd-sucht.de/movie.php?id=6180
personal data
SURNAME Umgelter, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, actor and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1981
Place of death Frankfurt am Main