Helmut Krätzig

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Helmut Krätzig (born October 23, 1933 in Augsburg ; † July 9, 2018 ) was a German film director and screenwriter who occasionally appeared as an actor.

Life

Krätzig studied German with Hans Mayer in Leipzig . His fellow students included Uwe Johnson and Jochen Ziem . Krätzig then started working as an assistant director on the DFF production Papa's new girlfriend , in which he could also be seen as an actor. His first feature film as a director, Dead Don't Talk , was made two years later. In addition to a few movies, Krätzig directed mostly television. After having worked on a number of Blaulicht episodes, Krätzig directed the first episode of the crime film series Polizeiruf 110 , The Lisa Murnau case , in 1971 . Numerous other films in the series under his direction and partly with him as an actor followed.

In 1983, Krätzig was criticized by the GDR as one of the directors who “found an unmistakable individuality in the abundance of material [of the television film] to deal with”.

Helmut Krätzig died on July 9, 2018.

Awards

  • 1970 Orden Banner der Arbeit (in the collective for the television film Ich - Axel Cäsar Springer )
  • 1988 Golden Screen (award from the GDR for the film Unheil aus dem Bottle )
  • 1989 Art Prize of the GDR

Filmography

literature

  • Helmut Krätzig . In: Uwe Johnson, Jochen Ziem, Erdmut Wizisla: Leaving Leipsic next week . Transit, 2002, p. 39.
  • Hans-Dieter Schütt: Drama with elegance. The television director Helmut Krätzig . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 8, 1983, pp. 28–31.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from 21./22. July 2018, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Lt. Hans-Dieter Schuett. The IMDb names June 11, 1941 as the date of birth and gives Augsburg as the place of birth.
  3. ↑ Obituary in the new Germany of July 28, 2018, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Helmut Krätzig . In: Uwe Johnson, Jochen Ziem, Erdmut Wizisla: Leaving Leipsic next week . Transit, 2002, p. 39.
  5. ^ Hans-Dieter Schütt: Drama with elegance. The television director Helmut Krätzig . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 8, 1983, p. 29.
  6. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from 21./22. July 2018, p. 14.
  7. ↑ Neues Deutschland from October 6, 1970, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Award for the best works of television drama . In: Neues Deutschland from February 27, 1988, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Itchy, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2018