Helmut Brandis

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Helmut Brandis , even Helmuth Brandis (* 25. April 1904 , † 1983-1987) was a German manager , screenwriter , author and Synchronous dubbing director at the DEFA .

Live and act

Little is known about Brandis' early life. Probably in the mid-1920s, he joined the film industry and worked until the end of the silent film era as a production manager on films such as Der fidele Bauer (1927) and Der Weg durch die Nacht (1929). After less significant activities as a production assistant and idea generator , he started working for Heinrich Georges Seedrama Das Meer calls as a screenwriter in 1932 . Until 1941 Brandis participated in film manuscripts, several times in collaboration with his colleague Otto Linnekogel . He then worked increasingly in the field of dubbing versions of foreign films. Brandis' task there was to write the German dialogue books, for example for the Hollywood productions Das Leuchtende Ziel (One Night of Love, 1934), Happiness comes to you quietly with Lilian Harvey (Let's Live Tonight) and, the most famous of them , Queen Christine with Greta Garbo in the title role.

At the end of the war in 1945, the Soviet authorities gave Brandis a license to found his own production company, the short-lived Phönix-Film, which was soon to be incorporated into DEFA, which was founded in 1946. In these few months he made just one film, the short fiction film Eugen Onegin . DEFA also used it in the production of foreign films, this time mainly from communist countries. Brandis was very rarely able to work as a screenwriter. When the Ministry for State Security approached Helmut Brandis at the beginning of 1957 to recruit him as a “secret informator”, he was happy to do so, as he felt “isolated and disadvantaged” in the DEFA studio. In the MfS, Brandis was appropriately listed as GI Phönix. Brandis was then allowed to work as a dubbing director on central Soviet films, including ambitious productions such as The Cranes Draw , the fairy tale The Stolen Happiness and, above all, Sergei Bondarchuk's monumental seven and a quarter hour epic War and Peace based on the eponymous model by Leo Tolstoy . In 1969, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, he was allowed to direct the drama Because I Love You ... for the only time alongside Hans Kratzert.

Helmut Brandis died between the IX. Writers 'Congress of the GDR in June 1983 and the Xth Writers' Congress in November 1987.

Filmography

As a screenwriter, unless otherwise stated:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A short message in Neues Deutschland on the occasion of his 65th birthday
  2. ↑ Cultural and political calendar Treptow-Köpenick 2016 - 2020 - Berlin.de
  3. ↑ Brandis on: dievergessenenfilme.de
  4. ↑ Brandis in Dagmar Schittly: Between Direction and Regime. Chapter 7.3: The DEFA in the sights of the State Security. P. 295 f.
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 25, 1987, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandis, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production manager, screenwriter, dubbing writer and dubbing director at DEFA
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1904
DATE OF DEATH between 1983 and 1987