Kurt Stordel

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Kurt Stordel (* 30th July 1901 in Chebzie , Silesia ; † 19th November 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German artist of cartoons , painter and cartoonist and book illustrator . Stordel is one of the first pioneers of the German fairy-tale cartoon and "briefly awakened hope for a German Disney".

Live and act

It can be assumed that Stordel studied at the Hamburg Art Academy . Details about his further work only became known through research into the relationship between Walt Disney and Germany between 1927 and 1945 .

Stordel became aware of the cartoon in 1926 through Felix the Cat . Although he had no previous experience, he accepted an order from a Hamburg advertising agency for a dog cartoon in a Danish newspaper. The founding of his own animation studio initially did not lead to the desired success due to the global economic crisis , which is why he had to stay afloat with advertising jobs. From 1933 onwards he received smaller orders from UFA -Werbefilm and on September 8, 1934 , he applied for membership in the Reichsfachschaft film .

In the mid-1930s, Stordel founded a studio for documentary, advertising and animation films in Hamburg's Klockmannhaus . During this time he and his wife developed the idea of ​​the German fairy tale wreath based on the popular fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with the first film Graf habenicht . Further series titles in black and white followed and Stordel moved the studio with his wife Elli and son Peter to Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Meanwhile, Stordel designed the figure of the dwarf Purzel. Here there was a departure from the original fairytale models. The characters Purzel, Brumm and Quack were reviewed on April 30, 1939 by the Völkischer Beobachter . In particular, the hope was awakened that Stordel could succeed in "breaking through the existing autocracy of Walt Disney in the German fairy tale forest". Stordel himself stated that he did not want to be a second Walt Disney. The Terra film was a second Topple cartoon (Purzel the dwarf and the giant of the mountain) in order. The departure from the fairy tale models is described on the one hand as Stordel's artistic breakthrough. However, this also led to a break with Nazi ideologues about the meaning of the fairy tale. This is why Stordel's work, along with a few others, is one of the few German cartoon fairy tale films between 1933 and 1945.

After a letter from Stordel to Hans Hinkel , which referred him to Fritz Hippler , Stordel became aware of the establishment of a UFA animation studio, with which he signed a contract in July 1940. In the following, Stordel led the animation project Pitsch makes wedding / Quick makes wedding under Horst Kerutt . However, this was stopped after a year in July 1941 in favor of a feature film project by Hans Fischerkoesen .

After the UFA project, Stordel was no longer able to work as a book illustrator and commercial filmmaker. Stordel therefore reported to the National Socialist Motor Corps on July 29, 1940, drinking heavily and for fear of being drafted . After being sent to the front as a private , he returned to Berlin on July 1, 1943 for health reasons and worked for Schongerfilm , Jugendfilm-Verleih Berlin and Roland-Film. At the beginning of 1945, Stordel and his family fled to Brandenburg, where he designed red banners against additional food rations after the Red Army marched in.

In the 1960s, Stordel continued to work on productions for children's films on German television. He also worked on documentaries and cultural films, one of which appeared in 1950 film City of Hamburg , the movie title "especially valuable" gained.

Filmography

year title activity
1930 The Bremen Town Musicians Director
1935/36 Count have nothing Director, producer
1936 sleeping Beauty Director
1938/39 A fairy tale Director, screenplay
1939 Somersault, the dwarf and the giant from the mountain producer
1942 Noise in the package Director
1943 Hansel and Gretel Director
1943 The water weir animation
1948 Little Red Riding Hood Director
1949-1951 Humsti Bumsti Circus Director
1949/50 Hanseatic City of Hamburg Director
1950 It moves us all animation
1950/51 On the thirteenth floor Director
1956 Panto shows us his trick Director, screenplay
1956 A high-rise city Director
1957 temptation Director
1957 House of the collection Director, screenplay
1959 Laterna Magica Hamburgensis Director
1959 Little little boy Director
1961 The price of freedom Director, producer
1961/62 The new house Director
1962 The magic pen Director
1962/63 Hänschen's wondrous journey Direction, script, camera, animation
1964 Welcome to the port of Hamburg Direction, script, camera, animation
1965 a job? Director, camera
1970 Chung-kuo Director
19 ?? An adventurous journey animation
19 ?? It works better together - consumption Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ron Schlesinger: Fairy tales in media change: On the past and present of the fairy tale film . On the past and present of the fairy tale film. Ed .: Ute Dettmar, Claudia Maria Pecher, Ron Schlesinger. JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-04592-8 , 8th fairy tale film in the Third Reich, p. 162 f . (= limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 26, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Annika Schoemann: The German animation film: from the beginnings to the present 1909-2001 . Gardez! -Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89796-089-3 , p. 371 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Rolf Giesen, JP Storm: Animation Under the Swastika. A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany 1933–1945 . McFarland & Company Inc., Jefferson, NC / London 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-4640-7 , 10. Kurt Stordel and Purzel. A Self-Proclaimed German Walt Disney and His Dwarf, p. 58–64 (English, 229 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 26, 2020]).
  4. ^ Jean Ann Wright: Animation Writing and Development. From Script Development to Pitch . Focal Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-240-80549-8 , pp. 22 (English).
  5. ^ Jeanpaul Goergen: Chronology of the German Documentary Film 1945-2005. (PDF; 908 kB) Materials for the DFG research project History of Documentary Film in Germany 1945–2005. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c Kurt Stordel at filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Stordel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, caricaturist and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Chebzie
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1993
Place of death Hamburg