Kurt Tetzlaff

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Kurt Tetzlaff (born February 22, 1933 in Tempelburg , Neustettin district ) is a German documentary director who is best known for his documentary films produced for DEFA .

From 1955 to 1960 Kurt Tetzlaff studied directing at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Academy of Film Art, where he taught as a lecturer from 1964 to 1969. From 1960 he worked as a director in the DEFA studio for popular science films, which later merged with other DEFA departments to form the DEFA studio for documentary films . Tetzlaff worked as a director and had been chairman of the artistic council since 1977. Tetzlaff made around 70 films, including feature films, films for children and, above all, documentaries.

Filmography

  • 1960: Diploma film "The first page of a chronicle", 60 minutes, fiction film (bronze medal at the Helsinki Student Festival )
  • 1963: "In January 63", 18 minutes (report about the work in track construction; rating: artistically particularly valuable, VI. International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week 1963: special prize)
  • 1963: "Jens and Kasper", 60 minutes, fictional film for children
  • 1966: It's not enough to be 18
  • 1967: "Seeds shouldn't be ground", 18 minutes (about the work " Mourning Parents " by Käthe Kollwitz ; Prize Festival Leipzig)
  • 1975: "Looping", 80 minutes, feature film - contemporary issues
  • 1976: "Encounters on the route", 47 minutes (travel report about the construction of a section of a natural gas pipeline in the Ukraine by a youth project of the FDJ ) [1]
  • 1976: "Everyday life of an adventure", 40 minutes (construction of a natural gas pipeline in the Ukraine; rating: Particularly valuable, Silver Dove at the 11th International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week ) [2]
  • 1978: "The plum trees are probably cut down", 9 minutes interview with Marie Rose Aman, for Brecht's poem memory of Marie A. wrote [3]
  • “I'll become an artist”, 18 minutes (training at an artist school; festival contribution Tampere and Mannheim, main prize in Tampere)
  • "... and it moves", 30 minutes (about the genesis of Brecht's drama "The Life of Galilei ")
  • 1984: "Memory of a Landscape - For Manuela", 82 minutes (advancement of a brown coal area near Leipzig through populated area. Foundling Prize 1983)
  • 1986: "In the year '32 - The red candidate", 80 minutes (about the year 1932 and the success of the National Socialists in 1933; prizes at festivals in Leipzig and Florence)
  • 1990: “I'm a Negro, I'm an American”, 90 minutes (about the American singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson in the McCarthy era ).
  • 1990: In Passage - Protocol for Memory
  • 1992: "The Garrison Church - Protocol of Destruction", 60 minutes (archive material and interviews on the destruction of the Garrison Church; German Prize for Monument Protection)
  • “Life in the occupied house”, 34 minutes (young people are looking for alternatives to the established society).
  • "The long farewell to Chemnitz", 45 minutes (film about the history of Chemnitz)
  • "Until the Russians came - end of the war in Central Germany", 45 minutes (about the Schwarzenberg experiment)
  • "On the verge of a war", 45 minutes (about the Hungarian uprising in 1956)

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personal data
SURNAME Tetzlaff, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tempelburg , Neustettin district