Kurt Joachim Fischer

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Kurt Joachim Fischer (born June 1, 1911 in Konstanz , † March 14, 1979 in Stuttgart ) was a German film producer and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and owner of International Film Features GmbH.

Life

After studying sociology, history and economics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin as well as receiving a doctorate, Dr. Kurt Joachim Fischer from 1934 as a columnist for Seiffert's Korrespondenz (Berlin), the Charlottenburger Zeitung (Berlin) and the Mainzer Anzeiger. With the beginning of the war he went into propaganda and took part in the propaganda company 501 in the western campaign. In an assessment by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) it said about him: "Outstandingly talented, very versatile, very confident and self-confident demeanor, great ambition". In the spring of 1942 he took over the management of the Panzer Propaganda Company 697 , in which he served together with Heinz Heydrich , the brother of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich . According to their own statements from the post-war period, the two men supported a rescue operation for Jews from Berlin to Sweden from 1942 to 1944 with forged IDs and travel documents. In 1944 she had to cut off aid, Heinz Heydrich committed on 19 November 1944 suicide and Kurt Joachim Fischer was arrested. The Central Court of the Army sentenced Fischer on December 28, 1944 to six years imprisonment and a fine of 40,000 Reichsmarks for undermining his military strength. He spent the last months of the war in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin and in the Torgau Wehrmacht prison .

After the Second World War, Kurt Joachim Fischer adapted to the new, democratic conditions. He expressed this purely externally by changing the spelling of his name. As head of the Panzer Propaganda Company 697 he signed his texts with Joachim Fischer, after the war with Dr. Kurt J. Fischer. After returning to Heidelberg, Fischer submitted an application for recognition as a victim of fascism, which was temporarily approved. Immediately after the war he wrote scripts for films like Liebe 47 , which he created based on motifs from Wolfgang Borchert's play Outside the Door , or Who drove the gray Ford? . On May 26, 1952, he opened the Mannheim Culture and Documentary Film Weeks as founding director, which developed into the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . At the second cultural and documentary film weeks in 1953, the audience voted Affenkinder by the Frankfurt zoo director Bernhard Grzimek as the most popular film. In 1954 Kurt Joachim Fischer received the Schiller badge from the city of Mannheim . He gave up his position as director of the Mannheim Culture and Documentary Film Weeks in 1961 to Walter Talmon-Gros.

In addition, Fischer was temporarily managing director of the German Society for the Promotion of Cultural and Documentary Films, managing director of International Film Features GmbH and produced several films, including with the world-famous director Bernhard Wicki . Kurt Joachim Fischer is the stepfather of the theater director Hansgünther Heyme , with whom he has realized joint film projects since the 1960s.

Fonts

  • 1936: Organized work as a civil service , Heidelberg.
  • 1940: escaped the enemy! Half an hour in French captivity , Berlin.
  • 1941: Dunkirk. French sacrifice themselves for England , Berlin.
  • 1941: Pioneers fight Eben-Emael. The fall of the strongest forts of Liege , Berlin.
  • 1941: Schluchze, the tank destroyer , Berlin.
  • 1942: Kamjenka. The story of a base in the eastern winter of 1942 , Panzer Propagandakompanie 697.
  • 1943: Infantry in the east. From the use of German infantrymen , Graz.
  • 1943: The golden clasp. Combat reports of a summer , Panzer Propaganda Company 697.
  • 1944: Vitebsk. From the struggle for a city unforgettable to us , Panzer Propagandakompanie 697.
  • 1948: The Prisoner of Stalingrad , Willsbach.
  • 1950: Humanity as a film theme. The American Negro Problem , in: Die Zeit 7/1950 of February 16, 1950.
  • 1952: The Peter Lorre case , in: Filmforum Mai 1952, p. 10.
  • 1957: Niehans: Doctor of the Pope , Vienna / Munich.
  • 1957: The crisis in German film. Economic facts and possibilities , in: The political opinion, pp. 49-62 ( ISSN  0032-3446 ).
  • 1958: Liselotte Pulver: Career without a scandal , in: Film und Frau 8/1958.
  • 1959: Sonja Ziemann: From 'Black Forest Girl ' to 'Eighth Day of the Week' , in: Film und Frau 3/1959, pp. 44–47.
  • 1962: Demanding is easy, doing something is more difficult , in: Die Welt from June 23, 1962.
  • 1966: Most stable social factor: The television set , in: Rheinischer Merkur of January 14, 1966.
  • 1966: Relations like an iceberg , in: Film-Echo / Filmwoche of December 23, 1966.
  • 1970: Does free choice of film solve the problem? , in: Filmtelegramm 26/1970, pp. 5–8.
  • 1974: Manfred, a man in a white coat , in: Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt 19/1974.
  • 1977: Fassbinder or: The courage to burn the ships behind you - conversation with someone who went out to frighten the citizens , in: Kirche und Film 30/8 1977, pp. 15-18.
  • 1980: The second cinema. Do-it-yourself cinema guide. Materials and information on non-commercial film work Schondorff / Ammersee.

Filmography

  • 1949: Love '47
  • 1950: who drove the gray Ford?
  • 1954: The golden plague
  • 1954: impostor of love
  • 1957: Impressions from a theater
  • 1958: why are they against us?
  • 1958: Ruler of the Primeval Forest , directed by Heinz Sielmann, Henry Brandt. German commentary: Kurt Joachim Fischer.
  • 1961: The premium
  • 1961: Unrecognized Olympia
  • 1962: a man is a man
  • 1962: wages on the scales
  • 1963: Smooth parquet
  • 1963: On Schlager Montage. Music - and how to make it
  • 1965: The uncomfortable Piscator
  • 1967: The difficult Kortner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notes to the author in Kurt J. Fischer: Der Gefangene von Stalingrad, Willsbach 1948.
  2. ↑ List of war reporters with a brief assessment in holdings R55 in the Berlin Federal Archives .
  3. ↑ Information from the German Office (WASt) .
  4. ↑ Axel Huber: “ Escape to Sweden 1942 - Who Knows the Events? “For one day
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel 11/1950 of March 16, 1950, pp. 42–43; Information from the German Office (WASt).
  6. ^ Hansgünther Heyme: "Important companies marvel" 17 international dance and drama productions in the theater in the Pfalzbau. Interview with the magazine neue Lu September / October 2006 ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ This information can only be found in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1973, Berlin / New York 1974, p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kurt Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1979
Place of death Stuttgart