Hans Poppe

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Hans Albert Poppe (born November 23, 1928 in Berlin ; † August 13, 1999 ) was a German production designer .

Life

Poppe was the son of the music director and organist Hans Karl August Poppe and the singing teacher Margarethe Poppe. He graduated from Leibniz Gymnasium in 1945 with an emergency qualification and from 1946 studied stage design at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee. He then sat in 1949 at DEFA and worked there as an artist. From 1953 he was a member of the team of production designer Erich Zander and from 1956 worked as an independent production designer at DEFA.

From the beginning Poppe dedicated himself to the children and youth film, so in 1958 the story of poor Hassan was made , in 1959 of course the Nelli! and 1960 Hatifa . In the 1960s , his works included fairy tale films and biographical works, including The Lost Angel by Ralf Kirsten, about the life of the sculptor Ernst Barlach . Numerous contemporary films were made in collaboration with the directors Ralf Kirsten, Rainer Simon and Horst Seemann .

Poppe was married to production designer Marianne Willmann and lived in Kleinmachnow, not far from Berlin, until his death in 1999.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Hans Poppe . In: Eberhard Berger, Joachim Gliese (Ed.): 77 fairy tale films. A movie guide for young and old . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00447-4 , p. 399.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See defa.de
personal data
SURNAME Poppe, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poppe, Hans Albert Poppe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scenographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1999