Herbert Uhlich

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Herbert Friedrich Julius Uhlich (born August 23, 1899 in Seidenberg , Lower Silesia , German Empire ; † March 1973 , Berlin ) was a German theater actor , radio producer, production and line manager , film producer and film manager.

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After graduating from secondary school, Uhlich began studying medicine and also trained as an actor with Waldemar Staegemann . From 1923 to 1927 he was on the stage in the German provinces, then he worked for the Berliner Rundfunk as an assistant to director Carl Hagemann until 1930 . From 1931 to 1945 Uhlich was co-owner of the small film production company Werbeschall Uhlich & Schröter Produktion Sigma-Film and also worked as its head of production. During these years he made a large number of mostly short documentary and educational films. During the medium-length film “ Between the Sahara and the Nürburgring ”, he met the young director Wolfgang Staudte in 1936 , with whom he would work again ten years later on both of their most famous feature films.

Immediately after the end of the war, the Silesian immediately placed himself in the service of the east zonal DEFA, for which he not only supervised the production of their weekly newsreel Der Augenzeuge , but also produced the first German post-war film, Staudte's homecoming and crime drama The Murderers Are Among Us , as production manager . The following Uhlich DEFA films, Ehe im Schatten , Affaire Blum and Rotation also have great artistic significance in his work.

Shortly after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the film producer, who lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, decided to change sides locally and politically and after 1950 only made West Berlin and West German films, which were artistically rather insignificant and only served mass entertainment. Uhlich, who was managing director of the Berlin Schiller- und Schloßparktheater from 1952 to 1954, had been managing director of Capitol-Film for several years from 1954, for which he occasionally also produced personally.

As early as 1959, Uhlich withdrew from active film production with the production management for the failed literary film adaptation of Jons and Erdme . He was married to the actress Emmy Burg .

Filmography

as a film producer, production or line manager; until 1945 documentaries, after 1945 fiction films

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 759.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1767 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Uhlich, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlich, Herbert Friedrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Seidenberg , Lower Silesia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 1973
Place of death Berlin