Karl Peter Biltz
Karl Peter Biltz (born January 14, 1908 in Wiesbaden , German Reich ; † after 1973 ) was a German theater actor , television film and radio play director , who also worked as a screenwriter and producer.
Life
Biltz studied at the universities of Vienna and Frankfurt am Main and also received acting lessons in his hometown Wiesbaden. Biltz made his debut on stage in 1931 in Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Wiesbaden State Theater. Biltz remained connected to Wiesbaden until 1934, followed by engagements at the Osnabrück National Theater (1935/36), the Plauen City Theater (1936/37), the municipal theaters in Freiburg im Breisgau (1937-1942) and the German Theater in the occupied Netherlands (1942-1944).
From 1946 Biltz worked in Baden-Baden as a radio play director for the radio station Südwestfunk and was also the artistic director of the SWF television department; u. a. he staged Günter Eich's Die Mädchen aus Viterbo (1953) and Das Jahr Lazertis (1954) for radio station Günter Eich . He then worked for television; he filmed a template by William Saroyan , Ein Bild fürs Leben (1954), with Kurt Haars , Kurt Ebbinghaus and Herbert Mensching in the lead roles. In 1968 he made the Anouilh film adaptation Romeo and Jeanette , with Isolde Miler , Knut Hinz and Gefion Helmke .
He then shot the satire Das Rätsel von Piskov with stars like Hellmut Lange , Hannelore Elsner and Wolfgang Büttner ; in the television play he worked with the stylistic devices of a fictitious reportage motifs from the Time Machine by HG Wells . This was followed by the film adaptation of the short story Vrazedný útok by Karel Čapek (An Assassination ) . His last television work was the film adaptation of Pavel Kohout's satire against the Cold War, War on the Third Floor , with Paul Edwin Roth , Gefion Helmke and Horst-Werner Loos . As a producer he was responsible for the TV films The Chinese Wall (1965, directed by Hans Lietzau ), and The Delay (1969, directed by Erich Neureuther ).
Radio plays
- 1946: William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew (adaptation and direction)
- 1946: Tartuffe ; Production: Südwestfunk
- 1946: Gerhart Hauptmann : The beaver fur
- 1946: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Stella (adaptation and direction)
- 1946: Heinrich von Kleist : The broken jug
- 1947: The Death Ship (after B. Traven )
- 1947: Jean Anouilh : Antigone (adaptation and direction)
- 1947: Georg Büchner : Woyzeck (editing and direction)
- 1949: Oscar Wilde : Bunbury
- 1949: Dirty Hands (after Jean-Paul Sartre )
- 1948: Carl Zuckmayer : The Devil's General
- 1949: Carl Zuckmayer: Barbara Blomberg (editing and direction)
- 1950: Axel Eggebrecht : Half the way. Mirror and Chronicle of the Century
- 1949: Ladislaus Fodor : Court at Night (adaptation and direction)
- 1949: Carl Zuckmayer: Barbara Blomberg (editing and direction)
- 1950: Axel Eggebrecht : Half the way. Mirror and Chronicle of the Century
- 1950: Hans Rothe : blown tracks (arrival at night)
- 1950: Ernst von Khuon: Signal box K
- 1950: Egon Jameson : Hero and Leander 1950. A story from our day
- 1951: Axel Eggebrecht: someone pays his debt
- 1951: What does a woman cost?
- 1951: Josef Martin Bauer : The splendor and end of the Asumara Republic
- 1951: Ernst von Khuon: The cut through the labyrinth - Director: Karl Peter Biltz ( original radio play , documentary radio play )
- 1951: Robert Adolf Stemmle : Justice for Seznec. According to the documents of the Seznec affair (Bienvenu) - Director: Karl Peter Biltz
- 1951: Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory (Editing and Direction)
- 1951: Carl Zuckmayer: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (editing and direction)
- 1951: Robert Neumann : Flotsam from those years
- 1952: Friedrich Dürrenmatt : The trial of the donkey's shadow
- 1952: Paul Hühnerfeld : Seven days. Radio play based on the film Reporter of Satan
- 1952: Emery Bonett , Erwin Wickert : Weeds under the wheat
- 1952: Robert Neumann : The Poshansk Puppets (adaptation and direction)
- 1952: Daphne du Maurier : The birds
- 1953: Find Livingston
- 1953: From morning to midnight
- 1953: Josef Martin Bauer : The greatest adventurer of the century
- 1954: Günter Eich : Don't go to El Kuwehd
- 1954: Georges Simenon : The November 1st Passenger
Filmography
- 1954: A picture for life
- 1955: crossing
- 1955: The walking stick
- 1955: The Poshansk Dolls
- 1956: The Solomonic Breakfast (also script)
- 1965: Arrival by night (blown tracks) (also screenplay)
- 1967: the pendulum
- 1968: Romeo and Jeanette
- 1969: The Piskov Riddle
- 1970: Dear friends
- 1971: An assassination attempt
- 1972: Scenes from married life
- 1973: War on the third floor
Theater (direction)
- 1943: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm (German Theater in the Netherlands, The Hague)
- 1943: Fritz Peter Buch : Die Mainacht (German Theater in the Netherlands, The Hague)
- 1944: Jochen Huth : The four journeymen (German Theater in the Netherlands, The Hague)
literature
- Kürschner's Biographisches Theater-Handbuch, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 54.
Web links
- Karl Peter Biltz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karl Peter Biltz at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ On February 7, 1933, he received his doctorate in Frankfurt with a thesis on Thomas Mann . ( Retro catalog of the StUB )
- ↑ A picture for life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Romeo and Jeanette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ The mystery of Piskov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ A bomb attack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ War on the third floor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ The Great Wall of China in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ The delay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biltz, Karl Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage actor and radio director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1973 |