Michael Pflegehar

Michael Pflegehar (born March 20, 1933 in Stuttgart , † June 23, 1991 in Düsseldorf ) was a German film director and television producer .

Life

The son of a factory owner was trained as an editor and in 1954 became assistant director at SDR in Stuttgart. He later worked there as a television director and followed Helmut Jedele to Bavaria Film near Munich in the late 1950s . From 1959 to 1963 he was senior director here, after which he worked as a freelancer. With his innovative shows he soon became Germany's best-known television director. In 1967 he directed the award-winning music television special A Man and His Music plus Ella plus Jobim for Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald and Antônio Carlos Jobim in the USA . At the end of the 1960s he lived with Sinatra's daughter Tina Sinatra for a while in Munich . He staged a. a. the ZDF show series Wünsch Dir was and from 1973 to 1979 the comedy television series Klimbim . With Ingrid Steeger , actress in Klimbim , he was in a relationship for five years since 1974. Under a pretext, he lured his friend Günter Netzer into the show Klimbim , where Netzer had to sing as a Heino imitator.

In 1990, Pflegehar founded the lobby for children association in Nuremberg together with Ursula Pfeiffer . The association helps children in need.

Michael Pflegehar was married to the pop singers Bibi Johns (1960–1962) and Inge Brück (divorced in the late 1960s). From 1981 to 1990 he was Wencke Myhre's second husband and father of their son Michael (* 1982). A daughter comes from a liaison with Corinne Pulver .

He shot himself in 1991 in the Düsseldorf apartment of his friend, a publicist, Hubert Maessen . Pflegehar was buried in the family grave at the forest cemetery in Stuttgart-Degerloch .

Awards

• 1975: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for Klimbim

Filmography

• 1956: A Little Big Journey (TV) (also co-script)
• 1956: Duel according to sheet music - A cheerful musical war (TV) (also co-script)
• 1957: The Record Thief (TV) (also co-script)
• 1957: La Cancha - A Mysterious World Championship (TV)
• 1958: Do you know the Milky Way? (TV)
• 1958–1964: Bon soir, Kathrin! (TV series)
• 1959: Drei kleine Helle (TV)
• 1959: When Sixes Take a Journey (TV)
• 1960: Around the world in 80 bars (TV)
• 1960: Hollywood - A suburb in four anecdotes (TV) (also screenplay)
• 1960: Life is a Carousel (TV) (also co-script)
• 1961: Petites fleurs (TV)
• 1961: The Old Wave (TV)
• 1961: Too young to be blonde (TV) (also screenplay)
• 1962: Hotel Victoria (TV series)
• 1962: The darn first time - a feature section with music (TV)
• 1962–1963: Do you love the show? (TV series) (also co-scripts)
• 1963: The smallest show in the world (TV)
• 1963: The Dead of Beverly Hills (also co-script)
• 1964: The Great Tokyo Show (TV)
• 1965: The Smile in the West (TV)
• 1965: Serenade for two spies (also co-script)
• 1966: The biggest show in the world - The Girls from Takarazuka (TV)
• 1966: The Peanuts (TV)
• 1966: Bel Ami 2000 or How do you seduce a Playboy (also co-script)
• 1966: The stars sparkle - Guest of Caterina Valente (TV)
• 1967: The oldest trade in the world (Le plus vieux métier du monde) (one episode)
• 1967: The Watusi Scandal (TV)
• 1967–1968: The Caterina-Valente Show (TV series)
• 1967: With Love, Sophia (TV)
• 1967: Show-Chance (TV series) (only guest in one episode)
• 1967: Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (TV)
• 1968: Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose (TV)
• 1969: Caterina from Heidelberg (TV)
• 1969: Romeo and Juliet 70 (TV series) (also screenplay)
• 1969: Various short election commercials for the SPD with Willy Brandt for the '69 Bundestag election.
• 1969–1970: Make a wish (TV series) (5 episodes)
• 1970: Music Tropical (TV)
• 1970: ZDF workshop (TV series) (only guest in one episode)
• 1970: Jumbo - An Elephant Life (TV)
• 1971: Perlico - Perlaco (TV) (also screenplay)
• 1972: Jules and the Olympic Ghosts (TV)
• 1972: Freckles (TV) (also screenplay)
• 1972: Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympiad (Visions of Eight) - Part 4: The Women (documentary film)
• 1972: 10 short campaign spots for the SPD with Willy Brandt for the '72 federal election.
• 1973–1979: Klimbim (TV series) (also co-scripts and guest appearances)
• 1975: Giro d'Italia - The toughest show in the world (TV)
• 1976: 52 short campaign spots for the SPD with Helmut Schmidt for the '76 federal election.
• 1977: Weekend Game (pilot for TV series)
• 1978: Two Heavenly Daughters and The Gimmicks (TV series) (also guest appearance)
• 1979: Torture with cake - How to do Klimbim and other Tingeltangel (TV)
• 1979: Wencke, Udo and the blue diamond (TV) (also co-script)
• 1980: Susi (TV series) (also co-scripts)
• 1981: Wencke (TV)
• 1983: Wencke on Northern Paths (TV)
• 1984: The tricky 7 (TV) (possibly unpublished)
• 1985: A Song for Gothenburg (TV)
• 1986: Bravo, Catrin (TV)
• 1986: The birthday of the future - 100 years of the automobile (TV)
• 1987: Heads, Experts, Backdrops (TV series) (only guest in one episode)
• 1987: Top Kids (SAM - Reise durch die Zeit) (TV) (also co-script)
• 1987: Welcome to Munich (TV)
• 1987–1990: Show stories (TV series)
• 1988: You make this world beautiful (TV)
• 1990: Roll Forward (TV)
• 1991: Dear Relatives (TV series)
• 1991: Pitfalls of Everyday Life (TV series) (One episode, broadcast in 1994)

Web links

• Michael Pflegehar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lobby for children helps boys and girls in need unbureaucratically