Kurt Enz

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Kurt Enz (born September 2, 1931 in Komotau , Czechoslovakia ; died May 3, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German engineer , film technician and specialist journalist. He was one of the leading experts in projection and cinema technology in the GDR.

Life

Enz passed his examination as a projectionist in 1950 and graduated from high school a year later. He then worked for land film in the Schwerin and Pasewalk districts and began distance learning in 1954 at the Technical University of Dresden . He also completed an engineering degree for shipbuilding technology in Warnemünde and graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1958 .

Enz became a member of the Chamber of Technology and the NDPD block party . He worked as a technical inspector at VEB Progress-Film-Vertrieb , as technical director at VEB Kinotechnik Berlin and as an engineer at the film headquarters of the Ministry of Culture . In addition, he worked in the editing department of the Leipzig Photo Cinema Publishing House for the magazines Bild und Ton as well as television and cinema technology. In 1965 he became head of the film theater technology department at the DEFA central office for film technology.

In 1965 his extensive textbook Filmprojektoren, Filmprojektion was published . In the following year he undertook a long journey through the GDR and covered the entire cinema landscape in his analysis of the state of film theater technology in the GDR (1967). This was followed by a study on the perspective reconstruction of the GDR film theater network (1968) and, from 1977 to 1984, a basic version of the movie theaters in the GDR . In addition, from 1976 to 1990 he was a lecturer at the Central Business School of the Film Industry of the Ministry of Culture in Langenau, Saxony .

Enz was the driving force behind the replacement of the carbon arc lamp by the xenon gas discharge lamp in film projectors, and for the introduction of the 70 mm film format and Dolby SR sound in GDR cinemas. He participated in international conferences of the Intercamera , gave lectures and published specialist books, training material and essays.

Together with his wife Sigrid, whom he met in the 1950s as a projectionist, he published the book Narrow Film Projection, Quite simply for film amateurs in 1978 , which had four editions by 1990.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Enz was retired in 1991. His estate on film technology and the history of cinema in the GDR can be found in the Potsdam Film Museum .

Publications (selection)

  • Film projectors, film projection. Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1965
  • With Miroslav Fiřtik: machines and equipment for film processing . State educational publisher 1965
  • Design of film screening venues. DEFA Central Office for Film Technology, Berlin 1976
  • With Herbert Eßmann: film theater. Basics for the new construction and reconstruction of cultural buildings 6; Institute for Cultural Buildings, Berlin 1977
  • With Sigrid Enz: Cine film projection, very easy. Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1978 (4th verb. Edition 1990)
  • The film equipment of cultural sites. Central company school for cinematography, Langenau 1979
  • Film switchgear. As Ms. gedr., Central Company School of the Film Industry of the Ministry of Culture, Langenau 1980
  • The operation of xenon lamps in film display systems. As Ms. gedr., Central Company School of the Film Industry of the Ministry of Culture Langenau, 1980
  • Film formats and playback methods. As Ms. gedr., Central Company School of Film, Langenau 1981
  • 25 years of DEFA Central Office for Film Technology: Scientific and Technical Center; Bearer of the order "Banner of Labor". DEFA contributions to the film technology special issue, Berlin 1982
  • Development of film reproduction technology and the film theater network in the GDR from 1945 to the present. Contributions to film technology issue 4, DEFA Central Office for Film Technology, Berlin 1982
  • Illumination optical systems in film projectors. As Ms. gedr., Langenau Central Company School, 1983
  • Sound reproduction in movie theaters. DEFA Central Office for Film Technology, Berlin 1987
  • Sound parts and apparatus for reproducing sound from films. DEFA Central Office for Film Technology, Berlin 1988
  • Electric drives and drive controls. Central school of cinematography, Langenau 1989
  • Comparative overview of the DIN standards applicable to film playback technology with references to the numbers of previously valid GDR standards (TGL). Self-published, Berlin 1990
  • Digital optical sound methods: an overview of the state of the art. Berlin 1991
  • History of film technology: A summary in short, shorthand words. Self-published, Berlin 1995
  • 100 years of German film projectors. Manuscript printing. Berlin 1996
  • Dresden film projectors. Berlin 1998

literature

  • Iwailo Schmidt: The invisible film star: a love story from the era of the cinema. I. Schmidt (self-published), Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024764-4 , pp. 20-22

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kurt Enz - film technician, specialist journalist , Filmmuseum Potsdam
  2. ^ Iwailo Schmidt: The invisible film star. Dresden 2008, pp. 20-22
personal data
SURNAME Enz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, film technician and specialist journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2004
Place of death Berlin