Herbert Ballmann

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Herbert Ballmann (born December 29, 1924 in Dortmund ; † May 21, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German film producer and theater and film director .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1942, Ballmann completed an acting training at the Berlin Schiller Theater . After the Second World War , his career began in the German Democratic Republic . His first film work was the documentary Blue Pennant in Summer Wind , which was made for the pioneer organization of the GDR. Between 1954 and 1958 he headed the children's and youth film studios of Deutsche Film AG , where he directed four feature films, including Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg (1955). With The trial was postponed on the novel by Leonhard Frank was born in 1958 his first feature film for adults. In his next project, House in Fire based on the novel The Hour of Dead Eyes by Harry Thürk , there were disagreements with the DEFA management. After he was deprived of the direction and the project was handed over to Carl Balhaus (the shooting was, however, stopped after two months), Ballmann decided to leave the GDR. The project he started A summer's day does not make love was completed by Gerhard Klein .

Ballmann moved to Berlin-Grunewald in 1959 to live with his wife, Gisela Uhlen , who was engaged at the Schiller Theater and therefore already lived in West Berlin. From 1959 to 1961 he worked as an actor and director at the Schillertheater, from 1961 as a director at the Hansatheater and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm .

In 1967 he directed a television film for the first time. He became known to a wide audience in 1978 with the television series A man wants to go up, based on the novel by Hans Fallada . Soon he was also working as a producer; As head of NFP - Neue Filmproduktion GmbH , he was responsible for successful series such as Drei Damen vom Grill and Praxis Bülowbogen as well as for Der Havelkaiser with Günter Pfitzmann and Rosemarie Fendel in the leading roles in the late 1990s .

In 1971, together with Wolfgang Patzschke and Herbert Stass, he received the Adolf Grimme Prize with Gold for an interview with Herbert K.

His last work as a cinema director was the film comedies Once Ku'damm and Back (1985) with Ursela Monn , based on a true story by Peter and Christa Gross-Feurich and ADAM (1988) with Helmut Berger and Désirée Nosbusch .

From 1957 to 1961 Ballmann was married to the actress Gisela Uhlen . In another marriage he was married to Renate Ballmann until his death.

The grave is located in the Evangelical Cemetery Berlin-Nikolassee , field CII59 / 60.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See picture of Herbert Ballmann's grave
  2. ^ Because of Renter Ballmann BZ Berlin Archive, May 3, 2001. Accessed November 1, 2018
  3. ^ Herbert Ballmann with his wife Renate Getty Images . Retrieved November 2, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Ballmann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2009
Place of death Berlin