Rolf Kästel

Rolf Kästel (born December 16, 1919 in Cologne , † June 26, 1987 in Unterhaching ) was a German cameraman .

Life

As a camera operator and camera assistant to Klaus von Rautenfeld, Kästel was involved in a considerable number of feature films as early as the 1950s, and he also shot several documentaries on his own responsibility.

He made his first feature film as head cameraman in 1961 with Camp der Damned . Kästel was consistently used for crime novels as well as adventure and agent films, as they were popular in the 1960s. The producer Wolf C. Hartwig was often his client.

For ZDF he was behind the camera in the successful three-part series Babeck and 11:20 am . From 1969 until his retirement in 1984 he was the regular cameraman of the popular ZDF crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick . During the filming of the Derrick episode Kranzniederlassung (first broadcast: September 6, 1985), Kästel suffered a stroke and was unable to continue working as a cameraman afterwards.

His grave is in the Unterhaching cemetery .

Filmography

1950: Motor and Landscape (documentary) 1952: Persia - the world's focus (documentary) 1962: Camp of the Damned 1962: his best friend 1963: Mississippi River Pirates 1964: Night train D 106 1964: The diamond hell on the Mekong 1964: The crime museum: Dr. W. 1965: The last three of the Albatros 1966: Agent 505 - Beirut Death Trap 1966: Five to 12 in Caracas (Inferno a Caracas) 1966: lotus flowers for Miss Quon 1967: a handful of heroes

1968: Commissioner X - Three blue panthers 1965–1968: The fifth column (series, 5 episodes) 1968: Babeck (three-part) 1969: Rendezvous with Mireille Mathieu 1969: Hotel Royal (TV movie) 1970: 11.20 a.m. (three-part set) 1970: I sleep with my murderer 1971: The night of Lisbon 1973: The winner of Tambo 1969–1975: The Commissioner (series, 79 episodes) 1974–1987: Derrick (series, 87 episodes) 1977–1984: The Old One (series, 30 episodes)

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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 314.

Web links

• Rolf Kästel in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ episode 132 wreath-laying ceremony at zauberspiegel-online.de. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
2. ↑ Horst Tappert: Derrick and I - My two lives , Heyne Verlag Munich, 1998, p. 21