Horst Grund
Horst Grund (born July 29, 1915 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † May 8, 2001 in Düsseldorf ) was a German cameraman and photographer .
Life
Training and first job
Horst Grund was the son of the registrar and office manager Gustav Paul Otto Grund and his wife Marie Elisabeth Grund, b. Thau. Schooled in 1921, he took part in a one-year military training course at the Treitschkeschule, a reform high school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, from 1930 to 1931, before completing a three-year technical training course as a mechanic in the workshop and as a mechanic in the workshop at the Tobis company and at the Reimann school Klappenmann began in the studio. This included attending the film seminar at the Reimann School and a traineeship in the Johannisthal image testing room.
After completing his training in 1934, Horst Grund stayed with Tobis and worked as a camera assistant for feature films until he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service on April 1, 1936 . In August 1936 he was used as a helper at the Olympic Games in Berlin .
Military service and participation in the war
In 1937 Horst Grund was called up for military service in the army and took part in the Polish and Western campaigns as a member of a sound battery . In January 1941 he became a film reporter for a propaganda company of the Kriegsmarine . He took part in a number of ventures and reported on them for Deutsche Wochenschau . These included the Balkan campaign in 1941, the Russian campaign in 1941–42 and the African campaign in 1942–43. On his return to Italy from Africa, Horst Grund was seriously wounded on April 9, 1943 and treated in a German hospital.
Returning to Italy, Horst Grund used coupled cameras for the first time in August 1943, an “ Askania Z ” and an Arriflex , which he used in parallel as a double camera in order to take both close-ups and long shots at the same time. Wounded again in January 1944, Grund was treated in Berlin and then transferred to a cruiser used as an anti-aircraft battery to Wilhelmshaven . From here he was commissioned with various reports, including special reports in color about the V1 and about the small combat units of the Kriegsmarine .
After the Second World War
At the end of the war on May 8, 1945, Horst Grund stayed at Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH in Berlin, but was not taken prisoner, but was able to start a new job as a cameraman at Mars-Film in Berlin-Spandau on June 1, 1945 and there making films from the Berlin milieu until 1948.
In 1949, Grund made a large documentary film at the Nürburgring and in 1950 was employed as a newsreel cameraman at Neue Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH, Hamburg, and at the same time as head of the Düsseldorf branch. He later worked for Blick in die Welt until 1977 . His area of operation was worldwide and he filmed disasters, sporting and political events.
Horst Grund remained unmarried; he died childless on May 8, 2001 and was buried at sea on June 8, 2001.
Filmography
Horst Grund worked on the following films:
1932-1937
- 1932 The big bluff with Adele Sandrock
- 1932/1933 Choral von Leuthen
- 1934 Sergeant Schwenke
- 1934 Quarrel about Jolanthe
- 1935 Liselotte of the Palatinate
- 1935 I was Jack Mortimer
- 1935 trauma
- 1935 The Nurse King. The Valley of Life (2nd camera assistant)
- 1935/1936 When the rooster crows
- 1936/1937 They talk about Jacqueline
- 1937 capers
- 1937 The model husband
- 1937 The serenade
1941-1945
Various filmic war reports about the operations he accompanied, including a number of color films.
1945-1977
- 1948/49 We are looking for Majora
- 1949 Madonna in Chains
- 1951 Learning from fast people - color film with von Frankenberg
- 1958 in! (Soccer World Cup Sweden)
Articles for German post-war newsreels 1952 to 1977 (selection):
- 1957 Tehran - Adenauer Schah Soraja (color film on peacock drone)
- 1957 1000 hours with the English jet fighter - Carte Blanche, NATO maneuver
- 1957 Turkey - State visit by Federal President Heuss
- 1958 Brussels / Belgium - World Exhibition
- 1959 international athletics competition in Moscow
- 1959 international football match in Budapest
- 1960 Morocco - film for the Sultan and German cinemas
- 1960 Morocco - earthquake kills 20,000
- 1960 Olympic Games Rome
- 1960 World Show Jumping Championships in Venice
- 1960 football qualifier
- 1960 Athens, Greece - NATO European Football Championship
- 1961 England, Castle Martin - German Army tank shooting
- 1962 World Cup 1962 in Chile
- 1962 Rome - Council
- 1963 Congo - Usumburi, Burundi, Entebbe with the Bundeswehr
- 1963 Stockholm / Sweden - football qualifier
- 1964 IX. Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck
- 1968 Tunisia - The golden canvas (for Roy Black, JC Pascal)
- 1968 Spain - The golden canvas (Mallorca, Tunis etc.)
- 1969 Ceylon, Thailand, Singapoore - German development aid
- 1969 USA Washington, New York - Kiesinger at Nixon
- 1970 Tunisia - Brandt near Bourgiba
- 1970 England London, Oxford - Brandt at Wilson
- 1970 Texas - Brandt with German troops
- 1970 Cap Kennedy - Apollo launch, Apollo 13 rocket
- 1970 August 11th to 13th, 1970 - Filming with Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt in Moscow on the occasion of the signing of the German-Soviet Treaty
- 1970 Moscow - 14 days chemical fair
- 1971 Africa trip with Foreign Minister Scheel - color film Nigeria, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mauritania
- 1971 East Asia development aid (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia) - German development aid
- 1972 XX. Olympic Summer Games in Munich 1972
- 1974 World Cup in Munich
Awards
Horst Grund received a number of war awards including the Iron Cross, 2nd class (1940) and 1st class (1942).
His cinematic achievements after the war have been recognized by several awards, including:
- 1952 - bronze medal at the XV. Helsinki Olympic Games for excellent cinematic performance;
- 1960 - Several honors for his dramatic recordings of the earthquake disaster in Agadir / Morocco "Earthquake in Agadir": "Best Cameraman", Venice Biennale first prize, Vichy Biennale / France second prize;
- 1965 - "Grand Prix of the City of Oberhausen" at the Oberhausen Film Festival for his life's work as a news camera man.
gallery
- Pictures by Horst Grund
Marines on an anti-aircraft gun, 1941
Marine painter at the port of Constana, 1941
A young woman on the beach in Romania 1941
Soldier with horse-drawn cart in Crimea, 1942
The destroyed port of Sevastopol in 1942
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia 1942
Documents
Karl Stamm: Horst Grund, marine film reporter 1941-1945, about his work , FRG 1988, video of the IMF knowledge and media (film documentation).
literature
Hans Barkhausen: Film propaganda for Germany in the First and Second World War, Hildesheim et al. 1982 (on pages 236–237 CV according to information from Grund). Babette Heusterberg: From Romania to Sicily, from Moscow to Agadir. The newsreel cameraman Horst Grund during the Second World War and afterwards . In: Filmblatt, Volume 16, No. 46/47, Winter 2011/12, ISSN 1433-2051 , pp. 15-30.
Web links
- CV at the Federal Archives
- Estate of Horst Grund in the Federal Archives
- Horst Grund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Grund's estate in the Federal Archives ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reason, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2001 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |