Manfred Romboy

Manfred Hans Günther Romboy (born September 13, 1936 in Leipzig ) is a German cameraman, university lecturer, editor and museum director from Wesseling .

Life

In 1950 Manfred Romboy was released from elementary school in Leipzig and instead of being allowed to study photography, he had to start an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in a Soviet state-owned company.

After June 17th, 1953 , Romboy was arrested and his June 17th and 18th recordings were confiscated. Nevertheless, he managed to start training as a camera assistant at the DEFA studio in January 1954 . Taken over from the feature film studio, he worked as 2nd and 1st camera assistant and 2nd cameraman until 1960.

In 1961 he fled the GDR and became a cameraman at WDR.

Since 1977 he has been a guest lecturer at the School for Radio Technology in Nuremberg, he was also a lecturer at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Since 1978 Romboy has also written for trade magazines.

In 1983 he went to the ARD studio in Moscow for five years. From 1988 Romboy worked again in Cologne, mainly as a director cameraman for the medical magazine moderated by Marianne Koch .

After his retirement in 1999 he was in charge of the Museum of German Film History in the Warner Movie World Filmpark Bottrop and his Romboy film museum in Wesseling. Since 2010, as the first club chairman, he has also been the editor in charge of Photo Antiquaria of the Club Daguerre .

Romboy is a member of the German Society for Photography and the Television and Cinema Engineering Society.

Filmography (selection)

• 1969: The Great Fear - Authors: Heiko Engelkes, Fritz Pleitgen
• 1977: Ferenc Fricsay - Author: Ulrich Schreiber
• 1978: Key to West Africa - Author: Peter Bauer
• 1980: coping with the past? - Author: Ernst Klinnert
• 1982: A touch of adventure - Author: Ernst Klinnert
• 1983: Moscow, Gorky Street - Author: Lutz Lehmann
• 1984 Moscow City - Author: Lutz Lehmann
• 1986: Kolkhoz New Life - Author: Peter Bauer
• 1987: Home in a foreign country - Author: Peter Bauer
• 1999: Eiskalt - Coca Cola and the Third Reich - Author: Hans-Otto Wiebus

Exhibitions (curator and lender)

• 1991, 1992: Cinema - Home Cinema - Television - WDR Publik
• 1995: 100 Years of Film - KölnMesse (Philatelia)
• 1996–2005: Museum of German Film History - Bottrop Warner Bros. Museum building
• 2006: When grandma and grandpa went to the cinema - Wesseling exhibition hall

Web links

• Manfred Romboy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• About the person , Romboy Film Museum
• infobox - "Veterans" from the very beginning , wdr.de
• Manfred Romboy and the eternal love for the camera
• When the Americans occupied Arnsgrün - report by Manfred Romboy about the years 1944/45 in Arnsgrün
• Romboys rarities - film report about the Romboy film museum