Gedeon Kovács
Gedeon Kovács (born May 27, 1931 ) is a Hungarian - German film director .
Act
Kovács attended the State University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. From the mid-1960s he made a number of television films in which actors such as Renate Schroeter ( The Maria Schäfer Case ), Bernhard Minetti ( The Case of the Generals ), Violetta Ferrari and Harald Juhnke ( Adieu Mademoiselle ), Hans Söhnker ( Kellerassel ) , Peter Weck and Erika Pluhar ( interlude ) as well as Günther Ungeheuer and Herbert Fleischmann ( I to order ) participated. He also shot the episode The Postcard of the television series Das Kriminalmuseum , starring Paul Dahlke , Dieter Kirchlechner and Erik Schumann . In 1966 he made a television play about the Auer / Ranneth case . His two-part film Farewells was based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and a story by Barbara Frischmuth . His last directorial work was Kein Platz für Idioten (ZDF 1994), based on the play of the same name by Felix Mitterer , with Gilbert von Sohlern and Monika Baumgartner . Kovács was a lecturer at the German Institute for Film and Television (DIFF) in Munich and had lectureships at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Gedeon Kovács lives in Berchtesgaden.
Filmography
- 1965 The case of Maria Schäfer
- 1965: Adieu Mademoiselle
- 1965: The Crime Museum (TV series)
- 1966: The Auer / Ranneth case - innocent behind bars
- 1966: The fall of the generals
- 1967: The renegade
- 1968: in one fell swoop!
- 1968: Me to order (after Ray Bradbury )
- 1968: The Bremen Town Musicians
- 1969: In this hell
- 1969: Let it stay
- 1969: cellar louse
- 1970: The performance ends at midnight
- 1971: Interlude or The New Marriage (based on the interlude (Schnitzler) )
- 1973: Macbett (after Eugène Ionesco , William Shakespeare )
- 1976: Regina
- 1986: Farewells
- 1988: The Königsstechen (screenplay Thomas Strittmatter )
- 1991: visiting time
- 1994: No place for idiots
Web links
- Gedeon Kovacs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brief portrait at Deutsches Filmhaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix Mitterer, Helmut Demel: Felix Mitterer: Materials to Person and Work . Haymon Publishing House, 1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kovács, Gedeon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1931 |