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Lutz-Gottfried Hengst (born September 27, 1920 in Langenau (Hartha) , † April 12, 1999 in Grünwald near Munich ) was a German film producer and production manager .

Live and act

The stallion from Saxony was a night hunter in World War II (shot down 13 times) and was wounded in a hospital in Bad Tölz at the end of the war, where he met his future wife in May 1945. In the next four and a half years he worked closely with the Americans stationed there, and organized their civil fairs (including food supplies).

At the end of December 1949, Hengst came across film when he started working as an assistant production manager at the production company of the producer Conrad von Molo , who had returned from exile . In the following years he worked his way to the manager (debut in 1952 at the great tattoo ) high. He worked for several years as an assistant director (e.g. on the Cold War and espionage thriller Das Invisbare Netz , 1953, with Gregory Peck, which was filmed in Germany ) and as a production manager (including Ave Maria , 1953; The Last Summer , 1954; Geliebte Feindin , 1954, and Reach for the Stars , 1955). He was also a production assistant in Helmut Käutner's GDR-critical production Sky Without Stars (1955). Many of his last-mentioned activities were primarily for the Munich-based ndF . In 1956, Hengst was employed in Josef von Báky's ambitious drama Robinson shall not die for the first time as a production manager.

Since the beginning of 1959, Hengst has concentrated on making television productions for a good decade. This began with the 39-part series Tales of the Vikings , which was filmed in Munich-Geiselgasteig for American television. Committed by Bavaria's General Director Helmut Jedele , Hengst u. a. in 1960 Franz Peter Wirth's legendary production of Shakespeare Hamlet with Maximilian Schell in the title role, Reinhard Hauff's robber ballad Mathias Kneissl and in 1973 the media-critical future vision The Last Days of Gomorrha by Helma Sanders-Brahms .

At the beginning of the 1970s, Bavaria (and with it Hengst) returned to film production. In the meantime, Hengst had earned an international reputation as an excellent organizer and, thanks to the good contacts he had made with American filmmakers over the decades, was, especially in the 1970s, the (co-) production manager for the Bavaria Atelier Gesellschaft based in Grünwald Involved in various international cinema productions, including Billy Wilder's elegiac-melancholy late work Fedora and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's widely acclaimed production Despair - A Journey into Light .

Hengst remained chief production manager at Bavaria until March 31, 1986, after which he went into business for himself and concentrated on film production with his own company, Stallion Film . He also managed Bavaria Sonor Musikverlag . He cooperated several times with partners in what was then still communist Eastern Europe. His son Oliver Hengst (* 1955) works in his father's industry and has been in Hollywood since the turn of the millennium.

Lutz Hengst was buried in the Grünwald forest cemetery near Munich.

Filmography

as producer, production manager, production manager

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data and all biographical information according to the Kay Less film archive
personal data
SURNAME Stallion, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stallion, Lutz-Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and production manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenau (Hartha)
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1999
Place of death Grünwald near Munich