May Spils

May Spils ; actually Maria-Elisabeth Maier-Spils (born July 29, 1941 in Twistringen , Lower Saxony ), is a German director . She is the partner of the actor Werner Enke .

Life

May Spils graduated from the Berlitz School , worked as a foreign correspondent and took acting lessons in Bremen . From 1962 she lived in Munich , where she met Werner Enke in 1963 . Spils worked as a photo model and starred in several films. She tried her hand as a writer and founded her own studio theater, which had to close after two performances.

In 1964 she tried to found her own film company with Enke and Klaus Lemke . In 1965 she formed the Neue Münchner Gruppe with Enke, Lemke and other members of the Schwabing scene with the aim of producing her own films. After two short films, which she directed herself for the first time, she achieved a sensational success with To the point, sweetheart . Her other films with Enke also played in Munich.

Filmography

• 1964: Holiday in St. Tropez (actress)
• 1965: Little Front (actress)
• 1965: Genghis Khan ( Genghis Khan , actress)
• 1966: The Portrait (short film, also actress)
• 1966: Maneuver (short film, also actress and production)
• 1968: Down to business, honey (also involved in the script)
• 1970: Don't fumble, darling
• 1974: Hit it, kid
• 1979: Woe if Schwarzenbeck comes (also costumes)
• 1983: Not with me, you Knallkopp (also involved in the script)

Awards

• 1966: 3rd prize at the Mannheim International Film Festival for The Portrait
• 1967: Film tape in gold with Werner Enke for the dialogues in On the subject, sweetheart
• 1970: Ernst Lubitsch Prize

Web links

• May Spils in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• May Spils on filmportal.de (with photos)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief biography of May Spils . In: Hans Günther Pflaum , Hans Helmut Prinzler : Film in the Federal Republic of Germany . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, pp. 268f.