Günther Wedekind

Günther Wedekind (born July 15, 1929 in Barbis , Lower Saxony ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Günther Wedekind started his professional career as a young cameraman in the early years of television. From 1954 to 1959 he worked for the Canadian local television station CKCO in Kitchener , Ontario . Then he returned to Germany and became first cameraman at Radio Bremen . Günther Wedekind has designed numerous studio productions, television documentaries and television plays as a cameraman. These include, for example, the Beat Club , the Rudi Carrell Show , Amlauf Band , Rudi's Tagesshow , Loriot Cartoon or the travel documentary Hardy's log book with Hardy Krüger and Dieter Seelmann and some episodes of the Radio Bremen series Frauengeschichten and Very Personal . With his close friend, the director Karl Fruchtmann , he shot Kaddisch after a living person in 1969 . By 1992 more than 20 other television games followed, also with directors Peter Zadek , Wolfgang Petersen and Rainer Wolffhardt . His wife Marlies died in 1983. He has been married to the psychologist and television journalist Heide Nullmeyer since 2008. Together with his son Ronald, they created the films Tracking down the dream of life (dream research according to Ortrud Grön) and Go! (Biographical answers to questions in the life of Annelie Keil)

Filmography (selection)

• 1961: Moony's child
• 1961: Four tea times
• 1962: Hardy's logbook - "Flight to Tanganyika", "The Animal Catchers"
• 1962: The Jubilee - Director: Peter Zadek
• 1963: Hardy's logbook - "Weekly wages in diamonds", "Somewhere on the Rio Xingu"
• 1963: Men on Sunday - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1964: The Joker - Director: Peter Zadek
• 1965: Late love - directed by Karl Fruchtmann
• 1966: Memory of two montages - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1967: Biedermann and the arsonists - Director: Rainer Wolffhardt
• 1967: Philadelphia, I'm Here - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1969: Kaddisch after a living one - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1969: Jester - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1969: Believer - Director: Klaus Bertram, Leonard Steckel
• 1970: Suddenly - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1972: Anna and Totò - Director: Wolfgang Petersen
• 1973: Alfie - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1974: Sick room 6 - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1977: Churning out - with Rudi Carrell
• 1978: Gesche Gottfried - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1981: Witnesses, statements about the murder of a people - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1981: Women's stories - Marika Rökk - Director: Heide Nullmeyer
• 1981: Rudi's daytime show
• 1985: Women's stories - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher - Director: Heide Nullmeyer
• 1986: Mademoiselle Fifi - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 1987: A Simple Person - Director: Karl Fruchtmann, Grimme Prize in Gold
• 1992: The Monkey of God - Director: Karl Fruchtmann
• 2007: On the trail of the dream of life - Director: Heide Nullmeyer
• 2013: it works! - Direction: Heide Nullmeyer, R. Wedekind

Web links

• Günther Wedekind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Günther Wedekind at filmportal.de
• CKCO television histories (English)
• Report on the television series Hardy's log book on fernsehserien.de