Peter Rothe (film architect)

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Peter Rothe (born October 5, 1935 in Altenburg ) is a German set designer for West German cinema, mainly from the 1970s.

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Born in Thuringia , he received his training from Wolf Hochheim at the Dessau State Theater in the 1950s and then went to Dresden as a set designer at the State Operettenhaus .

On August 1, 1961, a few days before the Wall was built , Rothe left the GDR for the Federal Republic and initially settled in Stuttgart . There he set up cabaret performances at the Renitenz Theater. After a stopover in Graz , Rothe came to Munich . There he worked with Walter Dörfler on several television plays and became assistant to the film architect Franz Bi.

In 1966 Peter Rothe was promoted to chief architect. He initially designed the decorations for internationally produced adventure strips, but also the elaborately produced historical biography Lady Hamilton - Between Shame and Love by the French Christian-Jaque . From 1970 Rothe was primarily active in the sex films of Wolf C. Hartwig's Rapid film, from 1971 to 1974 he provided most of the schoolgirl reports and other cheaply produced soft porn.

He was only occasionally able to oversee high-class cinema films: In 1977 Rothe was entrusted with the design of the buildings for David Hemmings ' Schöner Gigolo, poor Gigolo . In 1983 he designed the German decorations for Paul Mazursky's US production Moscow in New York in Munich .

Since the late 1970s, early 1980s Rothe is mainly engaged in the equipment of show broadcasts for television deals (eg. As Candid Camera , Tele-As and The Pyramid ). After building films for the television production Das gläserne Haus (1994), Rothe received no further commissions from either television or cinema.

Filmography

as a movie architect

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 653.

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personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg