Hans Wolff (filmmaker)

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Hans Wolff

Hans Wolff (born October 2, 1911 in Berlin , † June 1, 1979 there ) was a German screenwriter , film editor , production manager , actor and film director .

Life

Hans Wolff was born the illegitimate son of Otto Wolff and a domestic worker. On March 15, 1916, Anna (who could not have children herself) and Otto Wolff adopted him . He received the family name Wolff and a year later a new first name. His brother, who was also adopted, was Otto Wolff von Amerongen . Hans Wolff himself adopted a son who later gave him three grandchildren.

Hans Wolff studied law at the universities of Freiburg , Bonn and Paris . In 1933, he received practical training in the lab of Ufa . From 1934 he worked as an editor and had been part of the Willi Forst-Film team since 1936 . There he was responsible for editing several important Viennese films by and with Willi Forst .

Gravesite of the Wolff family

In his capacity as a producer, Forst made it possible for him to direct his first film, Der Hofrat Geiger , with immediate success in 1947 . Shortly thereafter, Wolff made his debut as an actor in The Singing House . In the 1950s he directed several films, but none of them received any particular attention.

Wolff now switched to production management, founded the production company Fono-Film GmbH and was involved in Bernhard Wicki's sensational anti-war film Die Brücke , as well as in the Lenz adaptation Das Feuerschiff and Wolfgang Staudte's outsider story Das Lamm .

Wolff died in 1979 at the age of 67 and was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG, between lit. L + M).

Filmography

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. 450.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckart Conze : "Titans of the modern economy". Otto Wolff (1881-1940). In: Peter Danylow / Ulrich S. Soénius (ed.): Otto Wolff. A company between business and politics, Siedler-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88680-804-1 , p. 127
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, film editor, line producer, actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1979
Place of death Berlin , Germany