Kurt Schulz (cameraman)

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Kurt Schulz (born February 14, 1912 in Berlin ; † June 28, 1957 there ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Schulz volunteered as a film projectionist from 1926 and then worked in a Berlin copy factory . From 1932 he was a camera assistant with Eduard Hoesch and Werner Bohne , as well as a still photographer . In 1938 he worked as co-cameraman next to Bohne in Hotel Sacher , and from 1942 he was responsible as chief cameraman.

After the end of the war, he and Kurt Ulrich founded a joint film production company in 1948 , the "Berolina". Schulz largely left the management of the company to Ulrich and limited himself as a producer to a few short documentaries, which he directed himself. As a cameraman, he wrote film history with the two Heimatfilm classics Schwarzwaldmädel and Grün ist die Heide , which were also the first German post-war color films.

His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery in Berlin .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 195
  • Kürschner's biographical theater manual , edited by Herbert A. Frenzel and Hans Joachim Moser, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 677

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personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1957
Place of death Berlin