Karl Ludwig Kraatz

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Karl Ludwig Kraatz (born October 5, 1900 in Borken (Hesse) , † June 20, 1974 in Bad Wimpfen ) was a German reporter and film critic .

Career

After studying philology in Marburg and Berlin , he volunteered at the Rudolf Mosse publishing house in Berlin and worked as a reporter and film critic. In 1928 he became production manager and production assistant at “Beckersachs / Dr. Scheumann film ”. Kraatz completed a film-technical training at the " AFIFA ", devoted himself to film dubbing and was press officer of MGM for Germany in Berlin from 1935 to 1939 .

In occupied Paris , "Charly", as his French employees called him, was commissioned to search French films from the Société Pathé Frères for anti-German propaganda . The cooperation with the French worked so well that he missed the withdrawal of the German Wehrmacht in 1944 and was hidden by his French colleagues until the Americans arrived. After the end of the war, Kraatz founded his own advertising agency in Göttingen and then joined Kurt Zobel (head of distribution at Allianz-Film GmbH, 1949–1956) as a specialist in Frankfurt . Here, the new press chief Charly Kraatz also propagated the Don Camillo and Peppone , Knef and Albers films. He died during a spa stay at the age of 73.

Works

  • In addition to his freelance journalistic work for several distribution companies in recent years, he published the German film catalog (UFA, TOBIS, BAVARIA) from 1930 to 1945 on behalf of Transit-Film GmbH - Munich .
  • In 1939, in the series of film scripts, the script Films under the Southern Sun appeared together with Annemarie Schmidt (Berlin: R. Mölich and Leipzig: Franz Winter, 1939)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Aping: Das Dick-und-Doof-Buch: the story of Laurel and Hardy in Germany , Schüren, 2004, ISBN 3894723564, page 158
  2. ↑ The Revue makes business . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1953, pp. 33 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kraatz, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraatz, Charly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reporter and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bark
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1974
Place of death Bad Wimpfen