Harry Leupold
Harry Leupold (born June 16, 1928 in Dresden ; † April 3, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German stage and set designer who created the scenographies for around 50 DEFA feature films from 1965 to 1990 , including the cult film Die Legende von Paul in 1973 and Paula .
Life
Parents: Linda Leupold (1901–1982) and Alfred Leupold (1894–1942). After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Dresden from 1942 to 1945 and a time as a journeyman on the island of Reichenau, Harry Leupold came into contact with the theater and the topic of staging at the Dresden State Opera from 1948 to 1950. Following his talent for drawing, he first completed an evening course at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden before studying from 1953 to 1958 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts, Berlin-Weißensee , specializing in stage design with Heinrich Kilger .
During his studies, which fell into one of the heyday of Berlin's theater history, he attended performances at theaters in both parts of the city, such as the Deutsches Theater , Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble , the Komische Oper and the Städtische Oper. He completed several internships at the State Opera and in the workshops of the German Theater and so he witnessed the creation of the style-defining productions of his time.
Harry Leupold lived in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg and in Erkner near Berlin from 1953 and was married to Willfriede Leupold (née Lotz, 1922–2012, fashion designer) from 1958. The couple had three children, a son, Matthias Leupold , Berlin photographer and documentary filmmaker, (born 1959) and two daughters in 1961.
From 1958 to 1963 Leupold worked as a set designer for the Brandenburg Theater and the Schwerin State Theater . In 1965, Leupold began working as a film set designer in the DEFA studio for feature films, initially as an assistant to Alfred Hirschmeier . From 1966 he was in charge of feature film productions and television films. Harry Leupold has u. a. worked with DEFA directors Frank Beyer , Helmut Dziuba , Günter Reisch , Günther Rücker , Gunther Scholz , Herrmann Zschoche . Harry Leupold played a major role in the success of the feature film Die Legende von Paul und Paula , 1973, directed by Heiner Carow . As part of the retrospective Rebel with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany at the Museum of Modern Art , Die Legende von Paul und Paula and Born 45 were shown in New York in 2005 .
Several international co-productions of the DEFA studio were prepared and realized scenographically by Harry Leupold, for example Peter von Guntens feature film Pestalozzis Berg 1988/89 about the pioneering pedagogue and Masahiro Shinoda's feature film The Dancer in 1988, based on the story Die Tanzprinzessin (舞 姫 Maihime, 1890) by the Japanese writer Mori Ōgai .
Harry Leupold's work spectrum was broad and ranged from science fiction films The 12th Man to historical films Mohr and the Ravens of London , children and youth films Seven Freckles , Island of the Swans to documentary television films with fictional scenes Berlin Unter den Linden . His preference was for contemporary films made in and around Berlin, such as Das Versteck or Until Death Do You Part . His artistic ideals, which for him in the poetic-didactic claim of Bertolt Brecht , the veristic imagery and Italian neorealism (e.g. bicycle thieves by Vittorio De Sica or La Strada - Das Lied der Straße by Federico Fellini ) and the style of his mentor Heinrich Kilger, he remained loyal over the decades.
Filmography
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Television films
- 1970: Berlin Unter den Linden, directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike, German TV broadcaster
- 1970: The Regiment Daughter, Donizetti's opera, coproduction with La Scala in Milan for German television
- 1973: Rotfuchs, directed by Manfred Mosblech, German TV radio
- 1992: Die Bertinis, director Egon Monk, book Ralph Giordano, production: Die Zeit TV GmbH, Lens Film GmbH, Studio Hamburg, realization in Babelsberg / Leipzig / Leuna: HL
Stage sets
- 1952 Brecht: Mrs. Carrar's rifles, Landesschauspiel Sachsen
- 1956 Wiede / Hacks: Das Untier von Samarkand, Theater derfreund, Berlin
- 1957 Die Schneekönigin, Jewgenij Schwarz / directed by L. Friedrich, Theater of Friendship, Berlin
Theater of the city of Brandenburg
- 1958 Bauer / Kawan / Weindich: Sensation in London
- 1960 Schiller: The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa, directed by Karl Gassauer
- 1960 Katajew: avant-garde
- 1960/61 Hauptmann: Der rote Hahn Directed by Kurt Veth
- 1961/62 Rehfisch: Colonel Chabert
- 1962/63 Fernau: Spring in Florence
- 1962/63 Brecht: The good person from Sezuan, directed by Karl Gassauer
- 1965/66 Schiller: The Robbers, directed by Karl Gassauer
- 1966 Kleist: The broken jug
Schwerin State Theater
- 1964 Smetana: The Bartered Bride
- 1964 Goethe: Iphigenia on Tauris
- 1964/65 Schiller: Don Carlos
- 1965 Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
- 1965/66 Seeger: Under the wind of the years
Exhibitions
- 1977/82 participation in the VIII. And IX. Art exhibition of the GDR, Dresden 1981/86 Picture and Scene, Exhibition Center Berlin TV Tower
- 2008 personal exhibition “Behind the Scenes, Harry Leupold - Stage and Scenography 1952–1992”, Kino Babylon, Berlin-Mitte and 2009 Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt
collection
Web links
- Harry Leupold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Harry Leupold at filmportal.de
- Harry Leupold in the collection of the Filmmuseum Potsdam
- Film documentation for the exhibition Harry Leupold, stage and production design 1952–1995
- Online documentation Harry Leupold, stage and production design 1952–1995
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Leupold, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film set designer and film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |