Otto Hanisch (cameraman)
Otto Hanisch (born January 11, 1927 in Berlin ; † December 13, 2021 ) was a German cameraman .
Life
Hanisch began his work in film as an assistant cameraman from 1954 to 1957. At the same time he worked as a lone cameraman for two short films, his first feature film followed in 1958 with The Trial is Postponed . Up to and including 1991 he worked regularly for various DEFA cinema productions. Occasionally he also worked for television, for example in 1961 for the miniseries Conscience in Riot .
Hanisch worked several times with well-known GDR directors such as Hans-Joachim Kasprzik , Frank Vogel , Bernhard Stephan and Erwin Stranka . Several times he took over the camerawork for DEFA Indian films , for example for Chingachgook, the big snake from 1967. He shot the films Signals - A Space Adventure and Orpheus in the Underworld with a 70 mm camera .
In 1988, Hanisch wrote the script for a film from the Polizeiruf 110 series .
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: Hunted until morning
- 1958: The trial is adjourned
- 1960: One of us
- 1961: Conscience in Turmoil (TV miniseries)
- 1962: the last chance
- 1963: Rime (TV)
- 1964: Wolf among wolves (TV series)
- 1967: Chingachgook, the big snake
- 1968: The murder that never expires
- 1968: Trail of the Falcon
- 1969: Jungfer, I like you
- 1970: Signals - A space adventure
- 1971: Hussars in Berlin
- 1972: The stolen battle
- 1972: Police call 110: The house on the train (TV series)
- 1974: Orpheus in the underworld
- 1974: Johannes Kepler
- 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
- 1977: Tambari
- 1978: Jörg Ratgeb, painter
- 1979: Blue Bird
- 1983: The Scout
- 1984: female doctors
- 1987: Käthe Kollwitz - Pictures of a Life
- 1988: Police call 110: rampage (TV series)
- 1990: return from the desert
- 1991: Between Pankow and Zehlendorf
- 1991: The warlike adventures of a peacemaker (TV movie)
literature
- Peter Badel : In conversation with Otto Hanisch. The complicated path to becoming a feature film cameraman. In: Peter Badel: Camera is running. Volume I. Series of publications by the DEFA Foundation . Berlin: 2007, ISBN 978-3-00021-830-9 , pp. 14-59.
Web links
- Otto Hanisch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Hanisch at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ DEFA Foundation : Mourning the cameraman Otto Hanisch. December 27, 2021, accessed December 27, 2021 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hanisch, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| BIRTH DATE | January 11, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2021 |