Heinz Helbig

Heinz Helbig (born July 28, 1913 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German film director and screenwriter.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Helbig had completed an internship as a director and worked as an auxiliary cutter before he was taken on as assistant director in April 1932. In this role he worked on Masquerade and So Ended Love in 1934 .

As early as 1935, the 22-year-old was asked to co-direct the Austrian film Die Pompadour . Helbig and his colleague Veit Harlan , who was no less inexperienced in film directing, helped the film composer Willy Schmidt-Gentner , who was breaking completely new ground as a director, to realize this film operetta in a historical guise. A year later, the producing Viennese company Mondial-Internationale Filmindustrie gave Helbig the sole direction of another story, accompanied by music from Schmidt-Gentner, his daughter is Peter . Maria Andergast , who was to become Helbig's wife in 1936, played the leading role .

Helbig then returned home to Germany and briefly continued his directorial career there in 1937 with predominantly light-weight and less demanding social melodramas and comedies. None of his (since the annexation of Austria in March 1938 in Vienna studios) productions - including the 700,000 Reichsmark, capitalism-critical and anti-Semitic undertones propaganda film Linen from Ireland - was an outstanding success, and so Helbig disappeared as early as 1940 the staging of the Hans-Moser- Schwank Der Herr im Haus with his wife Maria in the female lead, largely out of the public eye.

Films (as a director)

• 1935: The Pompadour (co-director)
• 1936: His daughter is Peter
• 1936: love can lie
• 1937: Monika (also scriptwriter)
• 1938: Money falls from the sky
• 1938/39: love is strictly forbidden
• 1939: linen from Ireland
• 1940: The gentleman in the house (also script collaboration)

Web links

• Heinz Helbig in the Internet Movie Database (English)