Gerhard Grindel
Gerhard Grindel (born December 8, 1902 in Berlin , † August 7, 1965 in Berlin) was a German film director and screenwriter of documentaries .
Grindel studied art history and was an early writer. He worked with Ernst Lönner on performances of anti-fascist plays in the working-class districts of Berlin and wrote chansons for them. In February 1933 he was banned from writing. He went to Vienna with Lönner , where he was involved in his emigrant ensemble "Gruppe Ernst Lönner" in the Small Theater on Praterstrasse . In 1944 he was used for forced labor.
After the end of the war, Grindel worked briefly as a journalist for the Berliner Zeitung . He wrote for the Tagesspiegel and edited the art magazine Dionysos . Grindel wrote his first screenplay for the feature film in 1947 ... and above us the sky by Josef von Baky with Hans Albers in the lead role. It was the first German film to be produced in the US zone of occupation after the Second World War . From 1950 on, scripts for short fiction and documentary films followed. In 1954 he wrote the script for the full -length documentary Football World Cup 1954 by Sammy Drechsel and Horst Wiganko . Grindel's most important work was the 1953 documentary Until five past twelve - Adolf Hitler and the 3rd Reich . Here Grindel, as one of the first West German filmmakers as a screenwriter and director, dealt with the growth and decline of the so-called Third Reich . With this film, Grindel had massive problems with the West German censorship authorities . After that he shot almost only short documentaries. Grindel did his last work in 1958, including as a narrator for the compilation film That Was Only Once .
Web links
- Gerhard Grindel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Grindel at the German Film Portal
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- ^ Alfred Kantorowicz , Richard Drews: "Verboten und burnnt" - German literature suppressed for 12 years , Ullstein / Kindler, Berlin / Munich, 1947; (new) Kindler Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 87
- ↑ Paulus Manker : “The theater man Gustav Manker . Searching for traces. ” [1] Amalthea, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grindel, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter of documentaries |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1965 |
| Place of death | Berlin |