Georg Wildhagen (director)

Georg Wildhagen (born September 15, 1920 in Hanover ) was a German film and television director.

Life

The Merry Wives of Windsor was the second opera adaptation that Georg Wildhagen shot for DEFA after Figaro's wedding (1949) . After disputes over the finale of the film, which had to be changed shortly before the premiere , Wildhagen did not shoot another film for DEFA and moved to Hamburg.

Filmography

1949: The Marriage of Figaro (screenplay and direction)
1950: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Director)
1951: The Dubarry (director and co-script)
1953: One night in Venice (get on the gondola )
1954: Wedding Bells (Director)
1966: A Day in Paris (TV film, director)
1967: Ransom for Milady (TV movie, director)
1970: Paul Klee (Radio Bremen, TV film, director, 30 min.)
1970: The Feldherrnhügel
1971: On neutral ground (TV film, director)
1975: Artists of our time - Diether Kressel (ZDF television film, 30 min.)
1978: Jealousy (TV film, director)

literature

Walter Habel (Ed.): Wildhagen, Georg , in: Who is who? The German Who's Who , Volume 15, Berlin: Arani-Verlag, 1967, p. 2178 u.ö .; Partial digitization via Google books
John Davidson, Sabine Hake: Take Two: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany . Berghahn Books, 2007.

Web links

Georg Wildhagen at filmportal.de
Georg Wildhagen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

References and comments

↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Wildhagen ... (see literature)
↑ Note: According to Filmportal.de the place of birth is Hanover , according to Davidson / Hake p. 212 Hamburg
↑ One plays, the other sings , film review, in: Der Spiegel, 49/1949, December 1, 1949
↑ The Merry Wives of Windsor . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 376.
^ The second life of the film city Babelsberg: DEFA-Spielfilme 1946-1992 , ed. from the Filmmuseum Potsdam, editor Ralf Schenk, Henschel, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89487-175-X , p. 57

personal data
SURNAME	Wildhagen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover

[Wer_ist_wer?-1] Walter Habel (Ed.): Wildhagen ... (see literature)

[2] Note: According to Filmportal.de the place of birth is Hanover , according to Davidson / Hake p. 212 Hamburg

[3] One plays, the other sings , film review, in: Der Spiegel, 49/1949, December 1, 1949

[4] The Merry Wives of Windsor . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 376.

[5] The second life of the film city Babelsberg: DEFA-Spielfilme 1946-1992 , ed. from the Filmmuseum Potsdam, editor Ralf Schenk, Henschel, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89487-175-X , p. 57