Lothar Kuhn

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Lothar Kuhn (born April 30, 1946 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 13, 2017 ) was a German production designer and architect who designed a large number of television and feature films for DEFA as a film architect and until his death as a production designer and architect was active.

Life

After completing his vocational training as a bricklayer with a high school diploma in Aue, he completed his architecture studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and then worked there as a scientific assistant with a doctorate .

Of ambition and love for creative work he came to mediation by Designer Alfred deer Meier , the film and worked from 1978 in the DEFA - Film Studio Babelsberg as art director. From 1982 he worked as a film set designer for z. Partly very complex large-scale productions (including Ernst Thälmann, Albert Einstein). He has also prepared and realized several international large-scale productions of the DEFA studio such as: Die MaTION , Anna Pawlowa and Der Sieg .

In his work as a scenographer and architect, he was able to implement the concept, design and construction for the STUDIO tour and the later Babelsberg Film Park .

The work as a film scenographer and architect for event design with unusual equipment specifications and wishes for recreational staging also represented, in addition to his work as a building construction architect, the wide range of work.

Filmography

cinemamovies

  • 1979: Solo Sunny , set design with A. Hirschmeier / director K. Wolf / DEFA-Spielfilmst.
  • 1980: Levins Mühle , scene b. with G.Wratsch / directed by H. Seemann / DEFA-Spielfilmst.
  • 1982: Platz oder Sieg , directed by C. Dobberke / DEFA-Spielfilmstudio
  • 1982: The warning , 2 parts directed by JABardem / DEFA coproduction Soviet., Bulgaria
  • 1983: Weiberwirtschaft , Re. P. Kahane / DEFA
  • 1983: Anna Pawlowa , directed by E. Lotjanu / DEFA co-production Soviet., Moldova
  • 1983/84: The victory (Pobeda), 2 parts / directed by J.Madwejew / DEFA coproduction Soviet Union
  • 1991: The suspicion, scene b. with F.Hirschmeier / Reg. F.Beyer / DEFA

Television films

Event / exhibition design

  • 1993–97 Filmpark Babelsberg formerly Studio Tour Babelsberg Concept, design, construction management
("Caligari Hall" / "Palace of the Sultan" ( The Little Muck ) / "Showscan Actionkino" / Beer Garden / Sandman Exhibition / U-Boat / Western Street / Animal Show / "Golem City")
(Entrance gate / restaurant "Prinz Eisenherz" / Janosch world "Panama" / stunt show "Vulkan" / "Radio Teddy" / Sandmann exhibition extension)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter of the DEFA Foundation in February 2017. (No longer available online.) February 8, 2017, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.defa-stiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2017