Peter Pewas

Peter Pewas (born April 22, 1904 in Berlin as Walter Emil Hermann Schulz , † September 13, 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German film director and commercial artist ( film posters ).

Life

The son of the master shoemaker Hermann Schulz briefly visited the Bauhaus in Weimar, taught at a decoration school and worked on a workers' stage. After 1933 he worked as a commercial artist, designing cinema posters and advertising material for films.

From 1932 he began to shoot a documentary about Alexanderplatz in Berlin, but Pewas was arrested in 1934, the film was confiscated and Pewas was briefly imprisoned in 1935 on suspicion of high treason.

From 1938 he attended the German Film Academy Babelsberg and became assistant director to Wolfgang Liebeneiner , in whose films Bismarck and Ich klage an he was involved. Pewas directed a few short films as well as the feature film The Enchanted Day . The unconventional film was banned and Pewas was drafted into the Volkssturm .

After the war he led in 1947 to a sex education film of the DEFA entitled Street Acquaintances Director. Then he went to Munich, where, in addition to other short films, the feature film Many came by was made in 1956 .

The outsider Pewas could not gain a foothold in the German film world of the 1950s and inevitably turned to painting. In 1978, as part of a retrospective of banned German films at the Berlin Film Festival, his film The Enchanted Day was rediscovered. A tribute was dedicated to him there in 1981.

Awards

• 1951: German Critics' Prize for Autumn Thoughts
• 1952: Certificate at the Federal Film Prize as honorable recognition for the production and directing of Herbstthanken
• 1964: Catholic Film Award for By Serving ...
• 1967: Silver film tape for license plate balloon
• 1984: Filmband in gold for many years of outstanding work in German film

Filmography

• 1934: Alexanderplatz taken by surprise (short documentary, unfinished)
• 1939: Between evening and morning (short film, unfinished)
• 1941: One hour (short film, not published)
• 1942: Zweiklang (short film, not listed)
• 1944: The Enchanted Day (banned in 1944), WP: 1947
• 1945: Liberated Music (short documentary)
• 1946: Where to Johanna? (SED election film)
• 1948: street acquaintance
• 1949: People - Cities - Rails (short documentary)
• 1950: Autumn Thoughts (short film)
• 1951: The guilt of Dr. Homma
• 1952: Putzke wants to know (short film)
• 1953: The fashion mirror. 1st episode (short documentary)
• 1954: The fashion mirror. 2nd episode (short documentary)
• 1956: Many came by
• 1956: The Naked Morning (short documentary)
• 1957: In love with clothes (short film)
• 1958: He walked by my side (compilation film)
• 1959: In love with St. Gallen (short documentary film)
• 1960: job or profession? (Short documentary)
• 1961: Morning of an old gentleman (short film)
• 1964: By Serving ... (short documentary)
• 1967: Air balloon license plate (short documentary film)
• 1971: Cement for the Society (short documentary)

DVD

• Peter Pewas. Films 1932-1967, Absolut Medien, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-89848-528-9 ; 2 DVD

literature

• Kurowski, Ulrich; Meyer, Andreas; Prinzler, Hans H .: The film director Peter Pewas. Materials and documents . Berlin: Volker Spiess Verlag, 1998. 95 pages - ISBN 3-89166277-7 .
• Volkhard Knigge , Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich . A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in collaboration with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in the Neues Museum Weimar from August 2, 2009 to October 11, 2009.) Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598- 15-6 , p. 155

Web links

• Peter Pewas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Peter Pewas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Pewas at filmportal.de