Klaus Dudenhöfer

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Klaus Dudenhöfer (born September 19, 1924 in Dresden , † December 19, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German film editor .

Life

He started with children's speaking roles at the Dresden broadcaster. In the 1930s he worked as a photographer for a picture site . After graduating from high school, he volunteered at Terra Film in Babelsberg in 1943 , with film editor Helmuth Schönnenbeck . The first film he worked on was the famous Feuerzangenbowle with Heinz Rühmann .

Dudenhöfer then became an assistant editor before doing military service from 1944. In 1947 he went to Hamburg and began with Helmut Käutner's newly founded Camera-Film as an assistant editor, until that same year he got a job as chief editor at Real-Film , which had just been founded . From 1954 he worked primarily with director Helmut Käutner, with whom he made twelve films. At times he also acted as an assistant director .

He played a major role in several award-winning feature films such as Des Teufels General and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , but also in Bernhard Grzimek's documentary films No place for wild animals and Serengeti must not die .

Since the late 1960s he has been working intensively for television. Among other things, he was responsible for editing the popular series Das Traumschiff and These Drombuschs . He also directed three episodes of the Cliff Dexter series and several cultural and industrial films.

Since the early 1990s, he has mainly worked with director Christian Görlitz. In 2002 he received an honorary award from the Forum for Film Editing and Montage Art Filmplus . He made the last cut of a feature film in 2008, meat is my vegetables , before he passed away at the end of the year. He was one of the longest-serving editors in Germany.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dudenhöfer, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dudenhöfer, Klaus-Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2008
Place of death Hamburg