Kurt Stanke

Kurt Stanke (born December 20, 1903 in Berlin , † October 15, 1978 there ) was a German cameraman of documentaries and a director.

Live and act

The factory owner's son went to school in Berlin-Treptow and had to give up his original plan to become an engineer due to the early death of his father. Since he had completed an apprenticeship as a photographer, Stanke was able to make his first contacts in the film industry at the age of 15 and, from 1919, learned his trade from scratch in both the photocopier and the studio. In 1922 he photographed his first major cultural film in the mountains before, at the age of twenty, he was hired by Reinhold Schünzel as director for the feature film “ Windkraft 9 ”.

From then on, however, Stanke remained loyal to nature, cultural and industrial films and, over the next three and a half decades, photographed an abundance of mostly short documentaries that were directed by well-known representatives of the industry such as Martin Rikli , Wilhelm Prager and Andrew Thorndike . After the war, Stanke was hired by DEFA , for which he regularly photographed films until the end of the 1950s. At irregular intervals, Kurt Stanke also tried his hand at directing , including several SED commissioned productions in the 1950s with a strong political, pro-communist tendency.

Filmography

as a cameraman of short documentaries unless otherwise stated

• 1924: Wind force 9 (feature film)
• 1925: Insulinde
• 1926: Hermann's stories (feature film) (also director)
• 1927: Traffic regulation in the North Sea (also direction)
• 1927: Manner's career (feature film)
• 1929: Broken shackles. A cultural image from the past and present of the working people
• 1929: Winter in the Spreewald
• 1930: Exam difficulties or the secret of the eggshell
• 1930: Salon of the sea monsters
• 1931: Gold of the North
• 1931: The mysterious ship
• 1931: Of Ibises and Herons
• 1931: Gold digger in Romania
• 1931: The glass engine
• 1932: Goethe lives ...! (Motion pictures)
• 1932: Invisible clouds
• 1932: Fish migrations
• 1933: From Amselfeld to Ochridasee
• 1933: water has bars
• 1933: From the home of the elk
• 1934: What the Isar roars
• 1934: Gorch Fock
• 1934: currents and eddies
• 1934: Archipelago and fjords on the Adriatic
• 1935: Soldiers songs (short film)
• 1935: Wiesbaden
• 1935: Storm over Hallig
• 1935: In the country of Widukind (also director, editor)
• 1935: The old royal city of Krakow
• 1936: Warsaw
• 1936: Vilna
• 1936: Hussars of the Sea
• 1936: The horses' paradise
• 1937: In the Rott
• 1937: down
• 1937: Spreehafen Berlin
• 1937: cosmopolitan city on the water
• 1937: We conquer the country
• 1938: sun, earth and moon
• 1938: Labor maids help
• 1939: Bayreuth. A city then and now
• 1939: forest in winter
• 1939: Science shows new ways
• 1940: radium
• 1940: Symphony of the Clouds
• 1940: Youth fly
• 1940: Nuremberg, the city of the Nazi party rallies
• 1941: Windy problems
• 1943: Everyday life between the mining towers
• 1943: Kitchen magic
• 1943: Cloud game
• 1944: Post to the Halligen
• 1944: what time?
• 1944: Sports in slow motion
• 1945: grace and power. Women's sport under slow motion
• 1949: The broken circle
• 1950: From Hamburg to Stralsund
• 1950: the way up
• 1951: Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president
• 1951: The Democratic Village (Director)
• 1952: Awakening Land (Director)
• 1953: New course on open land (also director)
• 1954: Enemy tools (director)
• 1954: Seven from the Rhine
• 1955: You and many a comrade
• 1955: Assassination attempt on our children (also direction and screenplay)
• 1957: From Port Said to Suez (Director)
• 1957: Life at the time of the pyramid (director)
• 1959: Goldener Boden (also director)
• 1959: Festival of the Hundred Thousand

literature

• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 169 f.

Web links

• Kurt Stanke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kurt Stanke at filmportal.de