Gunther Kortwich

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Gunther Kortwich (born September 15, 1928 in Berlin ; † September 30, 2015 there ) was a German sound engineer .

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The son of the sound engineer, screenwriter, producer, production manager and director Werner Kortwich and an opera singer was originally supposed to become a lawyer according to his father's wishes and a dancer after his mother's. Instead, Gunther Kortwich completed an apprenticeship as a boat builder during World War II. Spared military service in the Wehrmacht shortly before the end of the war in 1945, Kortwich grew up in Hiddensee and Berlin. In the emergency years immediately after the end of the war, Kortwich kept afloat with all sorts of temporary jobs: He worked on the construction site, carried coal and worked in a chocolate factory. When an Allied film company was looking for a driver, Gunther Kortwich was there and started his career in the cinema.

Kortwich gained his first practical experience at Gero Wecker's production company Arca, for which he initially (since 1953) also worked as a driver. From 1955 he worked for Wecker as a sound assistant for box office hits like the Immenhof - film romances and the jungle snout Liane, the girl from the jungle . In 1963, Gunther Kortwich was first employed as the chief sound engineer in the East-West escape drama Delay in Marienborn , which took place during the Cold War . In the nearly four decades that followed, he oversaw nearly 150 films in this capacity and worked with a wide variety of directors, including representatives from “Opas Kino” such as Franz Antel , Géza von Cziffra , Alfred Vohrer and Helmut Käutner as well as representatives from the filmmaker's cinema, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Hark Bohm , Marianne Lüdcke , Helma Sanders-Brahms , Helke Sander , Alexander Kluge , Hans Noever and Wim Wenders . The artists Loriot ( Pappa ante portas ) , Peter Stein ( summer guests ) and Peter Zadek ( Ice Age , The Wild Fifties ) also secured the cooperation of the experienced sound specialist. In addition, the native of Berlin was also involved in several television series and TV individual productions. Immediately after the turn of the millennium, Kortwich ended his active film career.

With "Gunther Kortwich Film-Ton-Technik" he also had his own company, with which Kortwich supplied film productions with sound equipment after the end of his active time until his death (the years 2001 to 2015). Gunther Kortwich had a daughter and a stepdaughter (who was brought into the marriage by his second wife).

Filmography

as the chief sound engineer for a movie, unless otherwise stated

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SURNAME Kortwich, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2015
Place of death Berlin