Lothar Michael Schmitt

Lothar Schmitt is a redirect to this article. For other people with a similar name, see Lothar Schmidt .

Lothar Michael Schmitt (born May 29, 1931 in Mannheim ; † May 17, 2011 ) was a German dramaturge , director , dubbing writer and dubbing director .

Life

After graduating from Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim , Schmitt took private acting lessons with EL Stahl. In 1948 he made his stage debut in a production of Friedrich Schiller's Turandot at the Theater der Jugend Mannheim, where he also received his first engagement. In the following years Schmitt worked on various Mannheim theaters (Theater der Jugend, Studio 49, Nationaltheater Mannheim ) as an actor, dramaturge and director. In 1950 he was appointed chief dramaturge and assistant to the artistic director at the National Theater. Schmitt staged a. a. Wolfgang Altendorf's poor people .

Schmitt found an extensive field of activity in the German processing of international film and television productions. As a dubbing writer and dubbing director, he created the German dubbed versions of movies such as Rache für Jesse James , Tarzan, der Affenmensch , Always this Michel , The uncanny visitor , the third German version of the Western Red River and the new versions of Alfred Hitchcock's crime films The 39 Steps and One Lady disappears . In the case of the last two, it was not he who wrote the dialogue book , but Eberhard Storeck and Werner Uschkurat . As a dialogue book author and director, Schmitt was also responsible for television series such as the White House, Back Entrance , Make-up & Guns and Under the California Sun.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Michael Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 21, 2011
2. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 655.