Günter Stahnke

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Günter Stahnke (born October 10, 1928 in Międzyzdroje ; † November 11, 2018 ) was a German theater, film and television director who also wrote scripts and worked as an actor.

life and work

The best-known is Stahnke's 1965 DEFA film Spring Needs Time , which was banned shortly after its premiere on November 26, 1965. After that he turned mainly to the television direction of cheerful entertainment with over 100 productions.

But Stahnke had problems with censorship before too. To mark the 10th anniversary of the German TV Broadcasting Corporation (DFF) in December 1962, he had staged a 36-minute television film “ Monologue for a Taxi Driver ” based on a book by Günter Kunert , which was to be broadcast as part of an anniversary festival week, but had been banned beforehand has been; this little film only had its world premiere on April 26, 1990. His short TV film "Fetzers Flucht" - another collaboration with Kunert - was also criticized, but it was first broadcast on December 20, 1962 in the DFF.

Günter Stahnke was married to the actress Helga Piur until his death . The family lived in Brandenburg, near the Scharmützelsee . From his first marriage to the actress Doris Abeßer he had a son (* 1963).

Filmography (selection)

  • Where the train doesn't stop long, DEFA (1959/1969), assistant director
  • Vom König Midas , DEFA (1962), directed and co-screenplay
  • Fetzers Flucht, DEFA (1962), director and co-screenplay
  • Monologue for a taxi driver , 36-minute television film (1962), world premiere: 1990, director
  • Spring takes time , DEFA (1965), director and screenplay
  • Märchenbrunnen, TV film (1969), director
  • Florentine 73 (1972), actor
  • Fish pulls, TV film (1973), director, screenplay and actor
  • Männerwirtschaft , Fernsehschwank (1975) Director
  • The Birnchen family, Fernsehschwank (1975), director and co-screenplay [landed in the poison cabinet and was only broadcast once in 1982]
  • Maxe Baumann from Berlin, TV film (1986/1987), director
  • The Millionaire , made-for-TV (1996), director

literature

  • Günter Agde: Between millstones. The director Günter Stahnke and his film SPRING NEEDS TIME (1965) . In: Filmblatt, Vol. 17, No. 48, Spring 2012, ISSN  1433-2051 , pp. 33–45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of the film director Günter Stahnke. Berliner Zeitung, November 19, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stahnke, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Miedzyzdroje
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2018