Richard König (film producer)
Richard Heinrich Alfred König (born August 11, 1900 in Berlin ; † September 1961 ) was a German film producer.
Life
Richard König was born as the son of the businessman Rudolf König in Berlin. Until 1930 he was head of accounting at UFA and then (until 1944) managing director and production manager of the film company. After the end of the Second World War he founded the Lens Film GmbH together with the director Josef von Báky . For Bákys … und über uns der Himmel (1947), the first feature film made in the American occupation zone after the war , he acted as production manager. In the comedy Die Drei Dorfheiligen (1949) Richard König then appeared for the first time as an independent producer. He had previously set up the König-Film GmbH production company based in Munich-Geiselgasteig . In the following years he mainly produced the feature films of his brother Hans , who initially worked as a screenwriter but then mainly behind the camera , and for whom he had paved the way into the film business.
From 1953 Richard König was married to the castle actress Edith Mill from Vienna , who repeatedly played the leading female role in his brother's films. The son Richard emerged from the marriage. Among the most interesting films that König produced are the unusually dark homeland film Roses Bloom on the Heidegrab (1952) and the passion drama Heiße Harvest (1956), which is set near Lake Constance and based on neorealist works such as " Bitter Rice ".
Richard König was buried in the Grünwald forest cemetery.
Filmography
- 1947: ... and above us the sky
- 1949: The call
- 1949: The three village saints
- 1950: Everything for the company
- 1950: The cheerful gas station
- 1951: Three Cavaliers (alternatively: The three village cavaliers )
- 1952: The Imaginary Sick - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1952: Roses bloom on the Heidegrab (In Austria: Dorothee , In the USA: Rape on the Moor ) - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1952: Heimatblocken - Directed by Hermann Kugelstadt
- 1953: The mill in the Black Forest
- 1954: The small town wants to go to sleep (In Austria: The Seven Sinner ) - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1954: The cross on Jägersteig
- 1954: Beloved Miss Doctor (In Germany: Love letters from Mittenwald ) - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1955: The fisherman from Heiligensee - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1955: The forester's house in Tyrol
- 1956: Hot harvest (later award title: Der Gutsherr und das Mädchen ) - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1956: Two Bavarians in St. Pauli
- 1957: Women are for love (working title: Frauenparade ; distribution title: Schütze Lieschen Müller ) - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1957: The cheerful detectives (alternatively: Between Munich and St. Pauli)
- 1957: Jägerblut - Director: Hans Heinz König
- 1959: hot goods (alternatively: Interpol intervenes )
Web links
- Richard King in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Richard König at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Cf. Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 866.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | König, Richard Heinrich Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1961 |