Georg Tressler

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Hans Georg Karl Philipp Tressler (born January 25, 1917 in Vienna ; † January 6, 2007 in Belgern , Saxony ) was an Austrian film director .

Life

Georg Tressler was the son of castle actor , senior director and councilor Otto Tressler and Eleonore Keil von Bündten. After graduating from secondary school in Vienna and graduating from high school, he went to Berlin in 1938 . He worked as a trainee director and draftsman, played in small roles in films, although in 1935 he made his debut in a small role in a film production. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service in 1940 and deployed to the Eastern Front - in Poland and the Soviet Union - and later on leave after contracting and developing jaundice .

After the Second World War, Tressler began working again in the film industry, this time as a director. In 1947 he directed his first short film Urlaub im Schnee . After a brief activity as an actor, from 1949 he made around 16 short and documentary films for public / state institutions, but also for the then US occupation powers, the so-called Marshall Plan films. Since he was unable to find financial support for a full-length film in Austria at that time, Tressler decided to go to Berlin in 1956.

His first feature film , Die Halbstarken (with jazz music by Martin Böttcher ) from 1956, which he was able to realize with film producer Wenzel Lüdecke , caused an uproar in German fifties cinema. Horst Buchholz , who played the leader of a street gang with a dubious past, became internationally known with this film based on a script by Will Tremper and was awarded the Federal Film Prize for his performance . Tressler's productions of Endstation Liebe (1958) and Das Totenschiff (1959), both also starring Horst Buchholz , also had great success . An attempt to gain a foothold in Hollywood in 1960 failed. He has worked regularly for television since 1962 and has shot series such as Graf Yoster gives himself the honor and permission, my name is Cox , episodes for the crime series Tatort and several television films with Inge Meysel .

Georg Tressler was married to Gudrun Tressler for the second time from 1961 to 1994, whom he knew from the filming of Die Halbstarken . Under her maiden name Gudrun Krüger , she had taken on the role of Gabi at the time. She later worked in Endstation Liebe (1958) and Der Lift (1972). The connection resulted in two children, Daniel and Melanie Tressler. The latter also worked as an actress.

On January 6, 2007, Georg Tressler died shortly before his 90th birthday in Belgern as a result of a stroke .

style

Tressler's role models were directors of Italian neorealism such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini . Many of his films therefore have a documentary feel to them, and early in his career he also made a few documentaries. Tressler preferred to film, unfamiliar to German cinema in the post-war era, "on the street" and not on artificial film studio stages.

In his obituary for Tressler in Die Welt , Hans Günther Pflaum wrote that, in retrospect, it could hardly be explained why German cinema had so carelessly renounced him. Perhaps Tressler had just gotten between the generations: For the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto , he was perhaps a few years too old and thus part of “Papa's cinema”. In doing so, Tressler often expressed his distance to the often unrealistic German film industry of the 1950s: “I never understood these films. There is such a theatrical feeling in German cinema. It was said about OW Fischer that he played so well, but I couldn't stand this deliberate nature. ”Pflaum wrote that Tressler might have worked in the wrong country at the wrong time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Günther Pflaum: Georg Tressler dead, director of the "youngsters" . In: THE WORLD . January 10, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed on May 1, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Georg Tressler | filmportal.de. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tressler, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tressler, Hans Georg Karl Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2007
Place of death Belgern , Saxony