Joachim Kramp

Joachim Kramp (born December 11, 1956 in Saarbrücken ; † October 27, 2011 ) was a German film salesman, author and film journalist.

Life

Kramp grew up in Rockershausen . After finishing school, he initially trained as a bank clerk in Saarbrücken from 1973 to 1976. After his military service he was trained as a film salesman in 1977/78 in a further course. Activities as a dispatcher and head of lending followed.

He gained his first experience with the film industry as a schoolboy, as from 1968 he worked as a side job as a projectionist and decorator. From 1977 Kramp worked full-time as a scheduler for cinema and film distribution, but in 1982 also in the position of head of distribution. In 2007 he retired as a film salesman from the field of film theater and distribution and from then on worked as a freelance consultant for a telecommunications company in Saarland.

Joachim Kramp was married and had one son.

Edgar Wallace

In 1998 Kramp published his first book, Hello, this is Edgar Wallace speaking! about the films produced mainly in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s based on models by Edgar Wallace . For this book, Kramp compiled a lot of information and rare photo material. In 2001 and 2005, a heavily revised and expanded new edition of the book followed. In 2004, Kramp published The Edgar Wallace Lexicon in collaboration with Jürgen Wehnert , in which he dealt with both the biographical data of Wallace and the people around him as well as the author's entire work and its history. Until shortly before his death, Kramp also worked on an illustrated book for the 32 Rialto / Constantin films, which Gerd Naumann only completed posthumously. In addition, from 2007 he was also involved in the implementation of the "Edgar Wallace original audio plays" The frog with the mask , the secret of the yellow daffodils , the zincer , the inn on the Thames , the gang of horrors (all maritime 2008 ) and The Red Circle (2009).

Jerry Cotton

Starting in 2007, Kramp researched for the book project A Case for the FBI: The Jerry Cotton Films , which was to deal with another crime film series produced in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s. However, the book was never published. In the following years Kamp worked with Gerd Naumann. The result was a jointly published non-fiction book on the genesis of the Jerry Cotton films, which dealt with the film adaptations with George Nader up to the remake from 2009 and shed light on the temporal background.

In addition to his publications, Joachim Kramp also appeared in various online presences such as the Edgar Wallace Forum as an expert with a high level of professional competence and personal experience on almost all genres of German post-war film history. He was always interested in an exchange of experiences and constructive discussions with the cinema audience and readership. In doing so, he was characterized by a high level of empathy for both commercial and audience-relevant views, and limited to areas and topics in which he was familiar through research and his own experience.

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• 1998: Hello, this is Edgar Wallace! The history of the German crime film series from 1959–1972 , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf.
• 2004: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert, The Edgar Wallace Lexicon , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf.
• 2011: Joachim Kramp, Gerd Naumann (eds.), The Jerry Cotton Films: When Jerry Cotton Came to Germany , ibidem-Verlag.
• 2012: Joachim Kramp, Gerd Naumann (eds.), The great album of the Edgar Wallace films - the splendid illustrated book for the 32 Rialto / Constantin films in the German crime series 1959–1972 , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Kramp in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Kramps biography on lustvoll-lesen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.