Kurt Früh

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Kurt Früh (born April 12, 1915 in St. Gallen ; † March 24, 1979 in Boswil ) was a Swiss film director .

Life

Kurt Früh was born in St. Gallen in 1915 as the son of a postal worker and moved with his family to Zurich in 1926. He was already involved in theater performances as a student. After studying language and music at the University of Zurich , he went to the Zürcher Volksbühne in 1933. Early on he worked there as an actor, author, director and most recently as a director. He also worked for the cabarets Cornichon , Bärentatze and Die Pfeffermühle . From 1938 he began to shoot short and advertising films for Central Film Zurich . In 1964 he directed a 30-minute industrial film for Condor Films commissioned by General Motors .

In 1949 he became assistant director under Leopold Lindtberg . With Polizischt Wäckerli , his first full-length feature film was released in the cinemas in 1955, with his characteristic, detailed representation. This was followed by the melodramatic film Oberstadtgass and the popular success Bäckerei Zürrer . He was then given the opportunity to work with German cinema star Heinz Rühmann as the main actor, but The Man Who Couldn't Say No , created in Copenhagen in 1958 , was only a mediocre success.

After other films such as Behind the Seven Gleisen , Café Odeon and Im Parterre links , he was head of the theater department of Swiss television from 1964 to 1967 and teacher of the film class at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich from 1967 to 1969 . With Walo Lüönd in the role of Dällebach Kari , he made a comeback as a cinema director in early 1970. In 1972 he made his last film, Der Fall .

Kurt Früh was married to the actress Eva Langraf (1919–2009); His two daughters Katja Früh (* 1953) and Jessica Früh (* 1956) came from this marriage . He died in Boswil in 1979. Around 20 years later he was buried in an honorary grave in the Fluntern cemetery in Zurich. In 2005 the Kurt-Früh-Weg in Zurich-Seebach was named after him.

Works

Films (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1957: Zürrer bakery
  • 1958: A Swiss in Paris
  • 1961: The roof over the Chopf
  • 1963: the winner

Publications

  • Flashbacks: From the workers' stage to the film. Zurich: Pendo-Verlag 1975. ISBN 3-85842-014-X (autobiography)
  • Brown and blue. 39 poems. Zurich: Pendo-Verlag 1978. (Poetry)

literature

Film documentaries

  • Light and shadow: the filmmaker Kurt Früh (Renata Münzel, 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/100-jahre-kurt-frueh/kurt-frueh-filmemacher-mit-herz-fuer-die-kleinen-menschen-am-rand
  2. ↑ Katja Früh. Oh, my papa: memories of Kurt Früh, a great director, money destroyer, self-doubter and father. The magazine 19/2015, p. 41.
  3. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/100-jahre-kurt-frueh/filmografie/baeckerei-zuerrer-von-kurt-frueh-1957
  4. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/100-jahre-kurt-frueh/filmografie/ein-schweizer-in-paris-von-kurt-frueh-1958
  5. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/100-jahre-kurt-frueh/filmografie/es-dach-ueberem-chopf-von-kurt-frueh-1961
  6. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/100-jahre-kurt-frueh/filmografie/der-sieger-von-kurt-frueh-1963
  7. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_person/115
personal data
SURNAME Early, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1979
Place of death Boswil