Lilian Seng

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Lilian Seng (born April 18, 1920 in Heidelberg , Germany ; † January 3, 2015 ) was a German film editor with a long career in domestic film and television from 1945 to 1980.

Life

The daughter of a graduate engineer and his aristocratic wife attended the lyceum and then, in the early phase of World War II , was trained by Tobis to be a cutter. Immediately before the end of the war, in 1944/45, Lilian Seng was entrusted with the final editing of two feature films that had not yet been completed at that time. Born in Heidelberg, she started her post-war career in 1946 at the newly founded DEFA . In 1948/49 Seng edited two of the most important films before the founding of the GDR for this state company : Affaire Blum and Rotation .

In 1950 she ended her editing work there and concentrated on orders from German and (West) Berlin companies with residences in Berlin-Zehlendorf and Munich. Since then, her most important works have included films by famous directors such as Julien Duvivier , Alfred Weidenmann , Wolfgang Liebeneiner , Willi Forst and Wolfgang Staudte . Despite some high-quality production standards, none of these films were of outstanding artistic importance.

Since her work on the crime series Stahlnetz in 1961, television became increasingly important in Seng's career. After several individual productions, in later years she also oversaw popular series and series such as Die immortlichen Methode des Franz Josef Wanninger and Tatort . With the cut to Egon Günther's ambitious, seven-part television production Exil , Lilian Seng ended her professional life in 1980 at the age of 60. It is currently unknown whether and when she died.

Filmography

as editor of the cinema, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1598.

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personal data
SURNAME Seng, Lilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2015