Nils-Peter Mahlau

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Nils-Peter Mahlau around 1995 in the production house of NDR television

Nils-Peter Mahlau (born October 25, 1935 in Magdeburg ) is a German former child actor and cameraman for NDR television .

First years

Mahlau grew up in Berlin in an artistic environment. His father was the actor and voice actor Hans Mahlau , his uncle the painter and graphic artist Alfred Mahlau . During a visit to a dubbing studio, twelve-year-old Nils-Peter was discovered as an actor and from then on earned pocket money with a few children's roles at DEFA , including as Moritz in the feature film Die Kuckucks (1947). Mahlau also synchronized and played in radio plays on the station RIAS .

From 1953 to 1957 he got to know the technical side of filmmaking as an assistant to the Hamburg documentary filmmaker and producer Rudolf W. Kipp and took care of the Kipp archive in the bunker on the Heiligengeistfeld .

Act as a cameraman

Mahlau films the future member of the Bundestag, Anke Hartnagel

Around 1958 Mahlau found a job as a senior assistant at NDR television and rose to become a cameraman. His professional spectrum ranged from regional reporting to documentaries and crime series such as Tatorte to feature films. He became famous for his work on Die Kartenlegerin (a swank from the Ohnsorg Theater directed by John Olden ) and The Moment of Peace under the French director Georges Franju and the Polish director Tadeusz Konwicki . Mahlau worked with a number of other well-known directors, especially with Peter Schulze-Rohr

Private

Nils-Peter Mahlau is married. His son Boris Mahlau, who was also a child actor for a short time, also makes a career as a cameraman. Daughter Petra hit the headlines as the first crime scene corpse in the episode Taxi to Leipzig . Nils Peter Mahlau retired in 1997. The family lives in Hamburg.

literature

  • Michael Scholten: Krimi - Kult: I am the first crime scene corpse . In Der Spiegel on November 29, 2009
  • Klaus Kreimeier: The process. The abyssal in the lapidary. Eberhard Fechner's TV film about the Majdanek trial . In: Frankfurter Rundschau November 24, 1984

Web links

Filmography (selection)


personal data
SURNAME Mahlau, Nils-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, child actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg