O. Jochen Schmidt

O. Jochen Schmidt (born July 31, 1938 in the German Reich ) is a German film architect and set designer .

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After graduating from high school, Schmidt completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and completed a degree in interior design . Schmidt has been active as a production designer and film architect since 1973, and from 1975 onwards he spent the next quarter of a century doing both television and cinema. In his early years, Schmidt designed the backdrops for the most important productions of Helmut Dietl ( Der Durchdreher, Der absolut normal Wahnsinn , Schtonk! ), Wolfgang Petersens ( The consequence , black and white like days and nights ) and Robert van Ackerens ( The other smile , the purity of the heart ).

Other directors Schmidt worked on were Wolfgang Staudte , Georg Tressler , Bernhard Wicki , Franz Peter Wirth , George Moorse , Peter Weck and Axel Corti . From 1982 to 1990 he was in charge of the scenery for the BR talk show Heut'abend with Joachim Fuchsberger . Schmidt's activities alternated regularly between cinema and television, his career ended at the turn of the millennium with the ambitious three-part TV series Die Manns - A novel by Heinrich Breloer .

As a television architect, unless otherwise stated

Film and Television Design Annual, 2nd year 1987, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 66
Film and Television Design Annual, 7th year 1993/94, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 98

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, O. Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film architect and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	German Empire