Hermann Kugelstadt

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Hermann Kugelstadt (born February 16, 1912 in Limburg an der Lahn ; † March 9, 2001 in Zell am See , Austria ) was a German film director and screenwriter who was best known for his homeland films of the 1950s and his television series of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered.

Life

Kugelstadt studied theater studies and German literature at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Vienna and Berlin between 1932 and 1935 .

He began his cinematic career in 1937 as an assistant director for Géza of Bolváry's film The Irresistible . He made his post-war debut in 1949 in the multiplication table of marriage as an assistant to Rudolf Jugert . In 1951 he made his debut as a director. His first film, Heimat, Deine Sterne, based on a model by Ludwig Thoma , was a homeland film. Kugelstadt remained true to this genre for almost the entire decade and was able to achieve considerable public success with some of his productions, even if the critics regularly commented on his work with malice and irony.

In some of his early productions he also worked on the script , often in collaboration with Johannes Kai . In 1956 and 1957 he shot two popular comedies about two original Bavarians ( Joe Stöckel and Beppo Brem ), Zwei Bayern in St. Pauli and Die fidelen Detektiven ; the following year two sedate and sentimental late works with the almost 80-year-old Hans Moser , Hallo Taxi and Mr. Josefs last love .

With the gradual decline of 'Papas Kino' at the beginning of the 1960s, Kugelstadt switched to television. There he staged an abundance of episodes for individual series and around 1970 some ambitious television plays with a contemporary historical background ( Friedrich Ebert - Birth of a Republic, Der Fall Sorge, Marinemeuterei 1917, The Collar Affair ).

Kugelstadt ended his career in 1973/74 with the popular and successful Viennese hotel series Hallo - Hotel Sacher ... Portier! , a joint production by ORF and ZDF with Fritz Eckhardt in the title role.

Filmography (as a director)

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 404.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 928.

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personal data
SURNAME Kugelstadt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2001
Place of death Zell am See , Austria