Kurt Krigar
Kurt Krigar (born March 31, 1921 in Katowice ; † September 16, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman and filmmaker .
Life
Kurt Krigar left school in 1938 shortly before graduating from high school to study camera and directing at the Reimann School in Berlin. From 1941 he was a war correspondent and was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war. After the Second World War he went to the newly founded DEFA and worked as a cameraman in Kurt Maetzig's film projects . In the late 1940s he was behind the camera for the DEFA weekly newsreel Der Augenzeuge and shot his own short documentaries as a director and screenwriter . Many of his short films deal with political events and developments. He often worked on short film feuilletons with his wife, an editor . After early work was in the service of the SED in the Soviet Zone and the early GDR , political differences arose around 1950. Krigar switched to the western equivalent of the eyewitness and became the Berlin boss of Fox's Tönenden Wochenschau . Later he documented the consolidation of the division of Germany and the building of the wall .
In 1966 he received the silver ribbon for his short film Die Aussicht .
Kurt Krigar lived with his wife Anneliese in Berlin-Steglitz until his death and was buried here in the Bergstrasse cemetery. His children are the painter André Krigar , the cellist and composer Thilo Krigar and the television journalist Katja Charlé (née Krigar).
Filmography
- 1946: SPD – KPD unit (camera)
- 1946: Berlin under construction (camera)
- 1947: ... the New Era moves with us (director, screenplay, camera)
- 1947: Artists under the clouds (director, camera)
- 1949: HO - Helper for a better life (camera)
- 1949: The eyewitness (newsreel from 1949, no.20, 26, 31, 41; camera)
- 1950: MAS Fritz Reuter (camera)
- 1950: To a new Germany (camera)
- 1958: people, meters and seconds (camera)
- 1959: Attention zone border 75 m (direction, screenplay, camera)
- 1961: Paradisio (picture direction Berlin)
- 1966: The View (director, screenplay, production, camera)
- 1972: On the world's markets (camera)
Awards
- German Film Prize 1966 for The View
- Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
- Kurt Krigar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Krigar at filmportal.de
- Obituary in the Tagesspiegel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in Der Tagesspiegel , September 27, 2009, p. 33
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krigar, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2009 |
| Place of death | Berlin |