Mathias Matthies

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Mathias Matthies (born August 7, 1911 in Babelsberg ; † September 30, 2004 in Greifenberg ) was a German film architect and production designer for television.

biography

Matthies trained as a decorative painter and studied painting and letterpress printing. He then attended the Film Academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg . His career as chief architect at the cinema began in 1949 at the Hamburger Real-Film of the producer Gyula Trebitsch . For him, Matthies designed decorations for a wide variety of genre productions, most recently, 1960–62, including some Edgar Wallace series crime novels.

Matthies also remained loyal to Trebitsch when the Hamburg film producer founded Studio Hamburg at the beginning of the 1960s and concentrated on making television films. Since then, Mathias Matthies has overseen a large number of high-class TV productions (the multi-part street sweeper , shot in 1965, The Gentlemen ask for cash ), including various series such as These Drombuschs and The Dream Ship , became best known .

Since 1951, Matthies had worked regularly with his wife, the film architect Ellen Schmidt . After the end of his professional career, he moved to Bavaria, where Matthies spent the end of his life.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 336.

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personal data
SURNAME Matthies, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect and production designer for television
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Babelsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2004
Place of death Greifenberg