Heinz Thiel
Heinz Thiel (born May 10, 1920 in Magdeburg ; † March 9, 2003 in Potsdam ) was a German film director.
Life
Thiel initially worked as a journalist. In 1938 he joined the NSDAP . He was used as an officer in a propaganda company . Thiel's report in the Völkischer Beobachter of March 4, 1943 about the Demjansk Kesselschlacht met with the displeasure of Heinrich Himmler , who saw the role of the commander of the SS Totenkopf Division , Theodor Eicke , not being sufficiently appreciated. Himmler demanded that Thiel should write a second essay on Demyansk. Thiels Hold or Die! SS-Obergruppenführer Eicke in the fortress of Demyansk appeared in the Völkischer Beobachter on April 8, 1943 and was rated by Himmler as "very good".
After the end of the Second World War he came to the Dessau Theater , where he worked as a dramaturge . In 1952 he founded in Halle , the theater of the Young Guard .
In 1954 he started to work at DEFA in Babelsberg . Initially employed as assistant director by Slatan Dudow, among others, in Der Hauptmann von Köln , in 1959 he directed a feature-length film himself for the first time in On Special Order. Numerous films followed, including 35 episodes of the so-called " spiny animals ". After the fall of the Wall , Thiel was active as a talk show host and published his book Die nackte DEVA in 1996 . Thiel died in Potsdam in 2003.
Filmography
Feature films
- 1954: Rushing melodies (assistant director)
- 1956: The Captain of Cologne (assistant director)
- 1956: Secret marriages (assistant director)
- 1959: On a special order
- 1960: At that hour
- 1961: Conscience in turmoil (TV series, actor)
- 1961: Five Days - Five Nights (Co-Director, Actor)
- 1962: The chin hook
- 1962: Dance on Saturday - murder?
- 1963: Reserved for death
- 1964: black velvet
- 1965: Alexander and Chanakaya
- 1966: Wisp and Fire (TV)
- 1967: bread and roses
- 1968: Heroin
- 1969: Krupp and Krause / Krause and Krupp (TV series)
- 1970: close to the wind
- 1958/72: Sun Seeker (assistant director)
- 1977: DEFA Disko 77
Short films
- 1956: The barbed animal - newcomers, be at hand!
- 1956: The quill - So'n theater!
- 1956: The quill - no ham!
- 1956: The quill - Prometheus. Olympic Games by Fire
- 1957: The barbed animal - Interview with Konrad Wolf
- 1958: Das Stingeltier - The curriculum vitae (only screenplay)
- 1960: The quill - scrap
- 1961: The barbed animal: You should have a horse
- 1961: The barbed animal - we know each other after all
- 1963: The barbed animal - How the ancients sang
- 1965: The barbed animal - but exactly!
Web links
- Heinz Thiel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heinz Thiel at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 337.
- ↑ Niels Weise: Eicke. An SS career between a mental hospital, concentration camp system and Waffen-SS. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77705-8 , p. 314f.
- ↑ Ten films. Director Heinz Thiel has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 11, 2003, Germany edition, p. 13.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiel, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calculator, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 2003 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |