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Gero Wecker (born April 22, 1923 in Göttingen ; † June 24, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German film producer .

Life

Gero Wecker was the son of the high school teacher Otto Wecker (1882–1965). After serving as a tank officer in World War II , he joined the film distribution business at the end of the war and achieved considerable success in 1952 when he released the Swedish film You danced for only one summer in Germany, which caused a sensation because of a brief nude appearance by Ulla Jacobsen .

In 1953 he founded Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH, the company headquarters was in Göttingen. With the children's film Die Mädels vom Immenhof in 1955 he met the expectations of his audience. Further Immenhof films followed in 1956 and 1957, as well as in 1973 and 1974 .

At the beginning of 1955, Wecker presented his full-length documentary film So was the German soldier to the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (FSK) . This film was mainly glued together from footage from newsreel reports and underlaid with a new text. The FSK criticized this text because of "militaristic, nationalistic and National Socialist tendencies". Wecker expressed the conviction that he had made an outspoken anti-war film, which was not particularly topical because of its pessimistic, negative, to a certain extent defensive attitude.

“All of the films that he has presented in Wiesbaden so far [March 1955] have been objected to in the first instance - always for moral reasons. As an importer of Swedish and French films, he first impressed with the Ulla Jacobsen film "She only danced for a summer", then with the Françoise Arnoul films "Forbidden Fruit", "Damned to Love", "In the dormitory of the big girls "and" French Can Can "."

In addition to music, war and homeland films, Wecker repeatedly produced films with an exotic-erotic background. His Liane films became particularly well-known with his discovery Marion Michael , which he signed for his film company in a seven-year contract. In the sixties he made several crime films based on the model of the successful Edgar Wallace films .

In April 1966, he tried his hand by establishing the team Filmverleih GmbH again in film distribution , thus making but less than a year later bankruptcy and focused only on film production. At the end of the decade he initiated the sex wave with the educational films by Oswalt Kolle . His last productions at the beginning of the 1970s once again followed the Immenhof episodes.

Wecker died of heart failure at the age of 51.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 294.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ That was the newsreel. In: Der Spiegel. 13/1955, p. 38f.
personal data
SURNAME Alarm clock, Gero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1974
Place of death Berlin