Rainer Wolffhardt
Rainer Wolffhardt (born August 27, 1927 in Hanau ; † September 9, 2017 Engratshofen ) was a German film director and screenwriter . He staged more than 100 television games, literary adaptations and series.
Life
Rainer Wolffhardt grew up in Munich as the oldest of six siblings. In 1943 he was drafted as an anti-aircraft helper. After the war he first studied classical philology .
Wolffhardt attended the Otto Falckenberg School from 1946 to 1948 in the first year after the war . After only two years of training, he was hired as an actor at the Münchner Kammerspiele . After a short time in the ensemble, he soon worked there as an assistant director for Bertolt Brecht , Hans Schweikart and Fritz Kortner, among others .
Since 1957 Wolffhardt worked for television; first for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , from 1973 as a freelance director for the Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others . Rainer Wolffhardt filmed many Bavarian classics, e.g. B. by Ludwig Thoma , Oskar Maria Graf , Lena Christ and Franz Xaver Kroetz . His focus was on television games with a political and historical background. One of his greatest successes was the television series Löwengrube , which he created together with screenwriter Willy Purucker .
Wolffhardt's first wife was the painter Barbara Gittner; his two sons, Andreas and Johannes, descended from this marriage. Since 1982 he was married to the actress Britta Fischer- Wolffhardt. The couple had a daughter, Esther. Wolffhardt last lived in the village of Engratshofen , where he also died.
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Visit from the zone (with Siegfried Lowitz and Werner Peters )
- 1958: Moral (TV play based on the drama by Ludwig Thoma )
- 1959: On call - murder (with Siegfried Lowitz and Heinz Drache )
- 1959: Street of the Just (with Siegfried Lowitz, Günter Pfitzmann and Wolfgang Preiss )
- 1960: The turnpike (with Wolfgang Büttner and Rudolf Vogel )
- 1960: The Captain von Köpenick (with Rudolf Platte and Alexander Kerst )
- 1960: The sculptor Otto Baum , documentary film
- 1961: Zanzibar . Screenplay: Leopold Ahlsen , based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch . With Robert Graf (Gregor), Beatrice Schweizer (Judith), Paul Dahlke (Knudsen), Carl Lange (Helander), Jens-Joachim Neitzel (Junge), Ola Svensson, Josef Sieber , Detlof Krüger, Edith Heerdegen , Hans Elwenspoek (landlord) , Joachim Ernst (Doctor Frerking), Dierk Hardebeck , Anneliese Hartnack
- 1963: The Trial or The Punished Love (with Peter Pasetti and Heidelinde Weis )
- 1963: The Decision (with Paul Dahlke and Rosemarie Fendel )
- 1964: Pastime (with Anneli Granget and Hans Hermann Schaufuß )
- 1964: dead without burial (with Werner Schumacher and Herbert Fleischmann )
- 1966–1972: Father Brown (series) (with Josef Meinrad and Guido Wieland )
- 1967: Biedermann and the arsonists (with Siegfried Lowitz and Bruni Löbel )
- 1968: Berlin Antigone (with Donata Höffer and Dieter Borsche )
- 1968: September thunderstorm (based on the novel of the same name by Friedo Lampe (with Heidelind Lutosch and Hans Tügel ))
- 1969: Tell Santa Claus (TV film) with Heinz Rühmann
- 1972: Shot on command (with Jürgen Prochnow , Christoph Felsenstein , Ingrid Steeger , Friedrich G. Beckhaus and Udo Vioff )
- 1975: Der Alte (TV film, with Herbert Stass and Claus Theo Gärtner )
- 1975: House without a guardian (with Karin Baal , Lina Carstens , Günter Lamprecht )
- 1976: Krock & Co (with Hans Heinz Moser )
- 1979: Anton Sittinger (with Walter Sedlmayr and Veronika Fitz )
- 1980: The Reventlow (three-part series about Fanny zu Reventlow , with Donata Höffer , Monika Baumgartner and Gerd Böckmann )
- 1981: Die Rumplhanni (also as a screenwriter, with Monika Baumgartner and Karl Obermayr )
- 1983: Martin Luther (with Lambert Hamel and Dieter Pfaff )
- 1984: The Lady and the Underworld (with Inge Meysel and Wolfgang Preiss)
- 1984: Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (with Jörg Pleva and Manfred Krug )
- 1984: small but mine! (with Karl Obermayr and Enzi Fuchs )
- 1987–1991: Löwengrube (series with Jörg Hube and Christine Neubauer )
- 1993: The seventh Bua
- 1995–1996: That's life! The Wagenfelds (first soap opera on Sat.1 )
- 1997: Mali (two-parter with Christine Neubauer and Ernst Hannawald )
- 1997: Just a Whore (with Mariele Millowitsch and Rainer Grenkowitz )
- 1997: jury court (TV series)
- as well as individual episodes of television series, including Tatort and Der Alte
Awards
- Wolffhardt received an honorable mention at the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1969, as well as the Audience Award of the Marler Group for Berlin's Antigone .
- The series Löwengrube was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize and the Golden Gong in 1991 . In 1992 Wolffhardt received the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold together with Willy Purucker , Jörg Hube and Christine Neubauer .
literature
- Günter Helmes (ed.): "Carefully expose layer by layer." Rainer Wolffhardt's directorial work . Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-86815-553-2 .
Web links
- Rainer Wolffhardt at filmportal.de
- Rainer Wolffhardt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rainer Wolffhardt at the Deutsches Filmhaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Grübl: Obituary - Rainer Wolffhardt is dead. Süddeutsche.de, September 11, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Josef Grübl: Strong as a lion. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 25, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolffhardt, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 2017 |