Manfred Ensinger

Manfred Ensinger (born May 31, 1929 in Haltingen ) is a German cameraman .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ensinger had completed an apprenticeship in photography at Salem Castle from 1949 and also attended the Film Academy in Wiesbaden. From 1953 he can be proven as a camera assistant (for films such as Ein Leben für Do , Manöverball, Monpti etc.). In 1957, Ensinger rose to become a simple cameraman with Liane, the white slave, and worked in this position for colleague Kurt Grigoleit on films such as love can be like poison , Rommel calls out to Cairo and Freddy and the millionaire . In 1959, Ensinger was also one of several cameramen for one of the first Durbridge street sweeper thrillers on German television. The time has come . After working on his best friend, Manfred Ensinger was promoted to chief cameraman in 1963.

In this position, Ensinger was mainly involved in the photography of television films. Since 1964 he has photographed a considerable number of television series for ARD and ZDF , including such popular productions as Die Fifth Kolonne , Das Kriminalmuseum , Der Kommissar , Graf Yoster does the honors , Hamburg Transit , Our most beautiful years , Police Inspectorate 1 , Derrick , I get married a family , the Black Forest Clinic , Adelheid and her murderers , police call 110 and several crime scene episodes. Ensinger traveled to all five continents to film. The directors with whom he has worked include Leopold Lindtberg , Helmut Käutner , Kurt Hoffmann , Marvin J. Chomsky , Elmo Williams , Franz Peter Wirth , Rolf von Sydow , Peter Weck and Michael Kehlmann . After the crime comedy Die Superbullen , Manfred Ensinger retired into private life in 1997.

Filmography

only as a head cameraman

• 1963: Dr. Joanna Marlowe
• 1963: Allotria in Zell am See
• 1963–68: The fifth column
• 1963–69: The crime museum
• 1964–65: Our big sister
• 1965: The bandits from the Rio Grande
• 1966: Jörg Preda reports
• 1966: glasses and bombs: you've come to the right place!
• 1969–76: The Commissioner
• 1970: Count Yoster does the honors
• 1971: The pawnbroker
• 1971: Crime scene: Münchner Kindl
• 1972: Hamburg Transit
• 1974: Scene of the crime: 3-0 for Veigl
• 1974: Telerop 2009 - There is still something to be saved
• 1974: Derrick: Forest path
• 1974-86: Derrick
• 1976: Sunday Stories
• 1977–85: Police Inspectorate 1
• 1980: the old one
• 1981: The Visitation of the Assistant Jung
• 1982–83: The fifth season
• 1983: our best years
• 1985–88: The Black Forest Clinic
• 1986: Engels & Consorten
• 1996: Crime scene: death on ice
• 1986: I marry a family
• 1989: The Bastard (TV three-part)
• 1990: You're right with me
• 1993: Crime scene: Escape to Miami
• 1996: Crime scene: murder in the academy
• 1993–96: Adelheid and her murderers
• 1995: Crime scene: Herz As
• 1995: Police call 110: 1A Landeier
• 1995: Police call 110: red caviar
• 1996: Crime scene: Dangerous friendship
• 1996: Scene of the crime: party friends
• 1996: Simone's decision
• 1997: Police call 110: Daisies
• 1997: The Superbulls

literature

• Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. First volume p. 209
• Camera Guide '94. BVK yearbook. Federal Camera Association, p. 80
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 364.

Web links

• Manfred Ensinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Manfred Ensinger at filmportal.de
• Manfred Ensinger on kino.tu