Horst Wendlandt
Horst Wendlandt (born March 15, 1922 in Criewen near Schwedt ; † August 30, 2002 in Berlin ; born Horst Otto Grigori Gubanov ) was a German film producer .
Life
Wendlandt was the son of a Russian farm worker and a German. He was adopted by his mother's sister and took her name. After attending the commercial college, he completed an apprenticeship with the Tobis Tonbild Syndicate in 1939 , which took him over as a cashier in 1941. Since he was threatened with internment as a Russian citizen , he volunteered for the German Air Force in 1944. After his capture by the Americans, he worked as a forced laborer in a French mine until 1947.
Back in Berlin, Wendlandt worked again for various film companies, first as a cashier and then as production manager . In 1956 he was hired by Artur Brauner for his CCC film company . In 1961 Wendlandt switched to Rialto Film , in which he had the majority of the shares from 1972.
Wendlandt became the toughest competitor of his former employer Artur Brauner on the German market. He achieved great popularity with the production of the successful and lucrative Edgar Wallace and Karl May films in the 1960s. After the death of the Winnetou figure in the last part of the Winnetou trilogy in 1965, a wave of protests that was unique in German cinema history pelted down on the producer, prompting him to immediately start preparing for the next Karl May adventure Old Surehand 1 To begin part in which he had the hero resurrected on film.
Wendlandt worked with many stars of European cinema. He paid particular attention to comedies, which with the protagonists Heinz Erhardt , Otto , Loriot (“ Ödipussi ”, 1988, and “ Pappa ante portas ”, 1991) are on his long list of successes. He was also active in film distribution and brought the duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill to cinemas , among others . In 1998, Wendlandt received the Scharlih Prize, the most famous award associated with the name Karl May .
Son Matthias (* 1952) and daughter Susan (* 1956) also took on production tasks at Rialto.
Horst Wendlandt, who was married to Ilsegard Winter, died of cancer on August 30, 2002 in Berlin.
Wendlandt acquired Gut Rothsee in the Weilheim-Schongau district in 1969 and used it as a second home and for legendary celebrations with actors and film teams. He is buried in the family vault of the chapel on the estate.
Allegations of plagiarism
His former employer Artur Brauner claimed throughout his life that Wendlandt had "stolen" the idea for the successful film adaptations of the Karl May novels from his drawer. However, this claim is offset by the "legend" that still exists today that his son Matthias made him aware of the adventure materials after reading a Karl May book.
Awards
- 1963 - Bambi , for the most commercially successful German film of the year: The treasure in the silver lake
- 1964 - Bambi, for the most commercially successful German film of the year: Winnetou I.
- 1966 - Bambi, for the most successful German large film of the year: Winnetou III
- 1968 - Golden screen for the 25th Wallace film for (until then) 72 million visitors to Wallace thrillers of the Rialto / Constantin film
- 1987 - Bambi
- 1987 - Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 1995 - Federal Film Prize ( Filmband in Gold ) Honor Prize
- 1996 - DIVA Award
- 1998 - Scharlih Award
- 2000 - Golden Camera Award
- 2001 - Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
- 2002 - Berlin International Film Festival , Berlinale Camera
Filmography
Production management
- 1956: The first day of spring
- 1956: love
- 1956: you are music
- 1956: A man doesn't always have to be beautiful
- 1957: like a storm wind
- 1957: Country innocence
- 1957: Looking for a nanny for dad
- 1957: The simple girl
- 1957: The early maturity
- 1957: love, jazz and high spirits
- 1958: And in the evening at Scala
- 1958: Confess, Dr. Corda!
- 1958: Petersburg Nights
- 1958: her 106th birthday
- 1958: Woe if you let go
- 1958: It doesn't work without a mother
- 1958: Here I am - here I stay
- 1959: What a woman dreams in spring
- 1959: Peter shoots the bird
- 1959: La Paloma
- 1959: You are wonderful
- 1959: Old Heidelberg
- 1960: mistress of the world
- 1960: reason for divorce: love
- 1960: O sole mio
- 1961: And that's called life
- 1961: The green archer
Production or co-production
- 1961: The Dead Eyes of London
- 1961: The secret of the yellow daffodils
- 1961: The Forger of London
- 1961: The Strange Countess
- 1961: Our house in Cameroon
- 1962: The riddle of the red orchid
- 1962: The door with the seven locks
- 1962: The inn on the Thames
- 1962: I'm only a woman too
- 1962: The treasure in the Silbersee
- 1963: The zinc man
- 1963: The black abbot
- 1963: The Indian cloth
- 1963: Winnetou 1st part
- 1964: Room 13
- 1964: Waiting room to the afterlife
- 1964: The crypt with the riddle lock
- 1964: The Witcher
- 1964: Winnetou 2nd part
- 1964: Among vultures
- 1964: The Traitor's Gate
- 1965: News from the witcher
- 1965: The Oil Prince
- 1965: Winnetou 3rd part
- 1965: Old Surehand 1st part
- 1965: The creepy monk
- 1966: Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi
- 1966: The hunchback from Soho
- 1966: Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand
- 1966: The secret of the white nun
- 1967: The oldest trade in the world (Le plus vieux métier du monde)
- 1967: The blue hand
- 1967: The time of cherries is over
- 1967: The monk with the whip
- 1967: The Dog from Blackwood Castle
- 1968: Under the spell of the uncanny
- 1968: Van de Velde - The perfect marriage 1st part
- 1968: The Soho Gorilla
- 1968: The louts from the first bank - To hell with the penne
- 1969: The man with the glass eye
- 1969: class wedges
- 1969: The face in the dark
- 1969: Van de Velde - Life for Two - Sexuality in Marriage
- 1969: Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine
- 1969: The guy loves me - and should I believe that?
- 1969: Like the bare wind of the sea
- 1970: How did such a lovely girl get into this trade?
- 1970: The gentlemen with the white waistcoat
- 1970: What's the matter with Willi?
- 1970: The Feuerzangenbowle
- 1970: Hurray, we're bachelors again!
- 1971: The dead from the Thames
- 1971: Rosy and the gentleman from Bonn
- 1971: Our Willi is the best
- 1972: Willi will swing the child
- 1972: The Killer and the Commissioner
- 1972: The secret of the green pin
- 1972: The Mystery of the Silver Crescent
- 1972: Mainly holidays
- 1972: No World for Children (documentary)
- 1973: The snake ( Le serpent )
- 1973: My name is Nobody
- 1975: Nobody is the greatest
- 1977: The snake egg
- 1978: Flat foot in Africa
- 1978: They called him Mücke
- 1978: a simple story
- 1980: From the life of the puppets
- 1980: Lili Marleen
- 1981: A fist goes west
- 1981: Lola
- 1981: The man in the pajamas
- 1982: The longing of Veronika Voss
- 1982: Das As der Ase ( L'As des as )
- 1983: First longing
- 1983: A man my size
- 1985: Otto - The Film
- 1986: Momo
- 1987: Otto - The New Film
- 1988: Oedipussi
- 1989: Otto - The Extra-Frisian
- 1990: the skipper
- 1991: Pappa ante portas
- 1991: Once in Arizona
- 1992: Cosimas Lexicon
- 1992: Otto - The love film
- 1992: We grandchildren
- 1993: No pardon
- 1993: Alarm in Sköldgatan
- 1993: And the big ones are let go
- 1993: The dead woman in the Göta Canal
- 1993: The Man on the Balcony (TV movie)
- 1994: The Policeman Killer (TV movie)
- 1994: Stockholm Marathon (TV movie)
- 1994: The Troublemaker
- 1995: The Bell of Amelung (three-part television series)
- 1995: The man on the edge of the bed (TV movie)
- 1995: Edgar Wallace: The Joker (TV movie)
- 1995: Edgar Wallace: Das Karussell (TV movie)
- 1995: Edgar Wallace: The Kensington Cat (TV movie)
- 1995: Edgar Wallace: The Blind (TV movie)
- 1995: Trinity and Babyface (Trinità & Bambino… e adesso tocca di noi)
- 1996: Merciless (TV movie)
- 1997: Palmetto
- 1998: Edgar Wallace: The Eerie Letters (TV movie)
- 1998: Edgar Wallace: The House of Dead Eyes (TV movie)
- 1998: a deadly relationship
- 1999: The Murderer's Handwriting (TV movie)
- 2000: Otto - The Disaster Film
- 2001: Edgar Wallace: The Castle of Horror (TV movie)
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The Four Righteous (TV movie)
literature
- Dona Kujacinski: HORST WENDLANDT - The man who brought Winnetou & Edgar Wallace, Bud Spencer & Terence Hill, Otto & Loriot to the cinema. A biography , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-690-9 / from 2007: ISBN 978-3-89602-690-3 .
Web links
- Horst Wendlandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Horst Wendlandt at filmportal.de (biography, filmography and picture)
- Rialto Film GmbH
- Literature by and about Horst Wendlandt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Münchner Merkur: Gut Rothsee as the final resting place , March 29, 2009
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wendlandt, Horst |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gubanov, Horst Otto Grigori (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Criewen near Schwedt |
DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 2002 |
Place of death | Berlin |