Peter Podehl

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Peter Podehl (born January 3, 1922 in Berlin ; † October 7, 2010 in Mandela near Rome ) was a German actor , director and author .

Life

From 1929 the son of the critic, producer and film manager Fritz Podehl attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin, which was banned by the National Socialist regime in 1938. After graduating from a forest school in Berlin in 1940, he attended the drama schools of the German Theater in Berlin and the Burgtheater in Vienna until 1942 . Podehl was a soldier from 1943 to 1945.

From 1946 to 1950 he was an actor, primarily a comedian at the National Theater in Weimar , but he also worked as a director and author. In 1948 his two-person play Coming and Going was premiered, and in 1949 his comedy Family Theater . In 1948 he married the actress Charlotte Ulbrich , who was also engaged at the Weimar National Theater and who played the leading role in both of these plays. From 1951 to 1955 he worked for DEFA , as an actor in the film Corinna Schmidt and as a screenwriter, i.e. co-author with Wolfgang Staudte , of the fairy tale film The Story of Little Muck . Wolfgang Staudte directed this film, Peter Podehl was its assistant director at the same time. Podehl's stepson Thomas Schmidt played the title role in this film .

In 1955 Peter Podehl moved to Munich with his family. In the film I often think of Piroschka , based on the novel by Hugo Hartung , he was Kurt Hoffmann 's assistant director . He then built his career on television as a writer, director and producer. He was a director and occasionally also a scriptwriter in the daily broadcast TV commercial between Half and Eight on Bavarian radio . In 1957, photographer Stefan Moses, who was a friend of the house, bought a 16-millimeter camera and encouraged him to write and film short stories that were broadcast on television. Over the course of several years this resulted in: A fortune to cheer on , a vacation in the zoo , fairground melody , A city puts on its winter coat , The triplet on the four eighth notes , Botanical Romance , The Children's Symphony , The Story of a Pencil , The Garbage Princess , Holidays in the Country , Märchen in der Müllerstraße ( WDR production, screenplay and direction by Podehl).

At the same time he wrote the screenplay and directed the two fairy tale films The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (1957) and Frau Holle - Das Märchen von Goldmarie und Pechmarie (1961) by Schongerfilm . Schongerfilm also received the order from WDR for two book adaptations, for which Peter Podehl wrote the screenplay and directed: Ahimeh (based on the book by Eva Rechlin, 1961), in which Thomas Schmidt again played the leading role, and Die Höhlenkinder (based on Alois Th. Sonnleitner , 1961, transferred to the time of the Second World War, in 12 episodes); Peter Podehl's daughter Claudia played Eva.

For several years Podehl directed the series Kasper und René with the Hohnsteiner Kasper and with Friedrich Arndt as Kasper and screenwriter on WDR . This later led to the TV series Caesar the Rabbit . The scripts for this were written by Wolfgang Buresch , Podehl directed the first episodes.

Since the budgets of the afternoon programs on television were only occasionally sufficient for major book or novel adaptations, Podehl came up with the idea of ​​starting a series for young people in which books from classical literature were presented and actors were played in a few selected scenes. So the television series Aus dem Büchreicher brought about partly in-house and partly in commission for the WDR . Peter Podehl was also the moderator in front of the camera.

At the beginning of the 1970s he also worked on the stories on order for the WDR radio in the children's program . The children wanted certain people or objects that should appear in a story, and the celebrity invited to the show then invented this "story to order". Story inventors were Astrid Lindgren , the then Foreign Minister Walter Scheel , Peter Frankenfeld , Frank Elstner , James Krüss and Robert Lembke .

Later, the idea of ​​encouraging children and young people to read according to the “bookcases” principle was implemented with the children's series Lemmi and the Schmöker in WDR. In it, the new electronic trick technology was used extensively and dramatically well-founded for the children's programs. Between 1973 and 1983 Peter Podehl wrote the scripts and directed a total of around 50 programs in the Lemmi and Schmöker series .

Peter Podehl was part of the team that invented the “ Zini ”, the yellow dot in the Fun am Monday series (later Fun on Tuesday ) that showed cartoons by Disney and others. For all episodes he wrote the scripts for the presentations and also directed. Podehl wrote the script and directed his last TV film, the 1980 three-part series Jan, the Boy from the Golden Star based on Alexander Keys The forgotten door with Thekla Carola Wied in one of the leading roles.

On the death of Friedrich Arndt and Peter René Körner , he and Armin Maiwald presented the two commemorative programs Are you all there? - Memories of the puppeteer Friedrich Arndt (1985) and We remember Peter René Körner (1989).

In 1980 the NDR called him to Hamburg to write scripts for the Hallo Spencer dolls. Working with the team resulted in the popular Hallo Spencer series . He wrote the scripts for about 200 episodes and directed about 180 episodes.

Peter Podehl lived in Munich until 2007 and most recently with his daughter in the Sabine Mountains near Rome .

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  1. ↑ Announcements UNIMA-Zentrum BRD eV
personal data
SURNAME Podehl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2010
Place of death Mandela near Rome