Rolf von Sydow

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Rolf von Sydow (born June 18, 1924 in Wiesbaden ; † June 16, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German director , screenwriter , film producer and book author .

Life

His father came from the old Brandenburg aristocratic family Sydow , his mother Ilse Bayerthal was " half-Jewish " according to the National Socialist definition . That is why, after graduating from the Staatliches Realgymnasium in Wiesbaden in 1942, he was unable to put his childhood dream of becoming an officer or diplomat into practice. However, he served undetected as a tank driver in the Wehrmacht until 1944, was wounded several times and was awarded high medals.

In 1947 he began his career as an actor and assistant director at the theater in Coburg before he went to the RIAS in Berlin and became the youngest radio play director there. In the following years he became known as a director of a number of feature films, theater and television productions, as of Durbridge - films - the three-piece Like a bolt (1970) and the knife (1971) and the two-parter The chain (1977) -, by Film adaptations of several novels by Rosamunde Pilcher and the series Zwei Münchner in Hamburg . In the 1980s he was head of entertainment at Saarland Broadcasting .

Rolf von Sydow was also the author of several books, including the 1983 autobiography Angst zu breathe , in which he describes his youth during the National Socialist era . In addition, an audio book was published in 2004 with excerpts from it that the author read himself. Sydow's other books are also predominantly autobiographical.

Rolf von Sydow lived with his third wife in Berlin. He died in June 2019, two days before his 95th birthday.

His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

media

Books

Audio books

  • Fear of breathing . Read by Rolf von Sydow. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937904-04-2 .
  • Rolf von Sydow tells from his life: "I wanted to be made an honorary aryan by Hitler." (Edition Zeugen einer Zeit). Paul Lazarus Foundation, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942902-02-1 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Director Rolf von Sydow is dead - He died 48 hours before his 95th birthday - Bild-Online, read June 17, 2019
  2. ↑ August Schnell et al., The high school graduates from the Realgymnasium, in: 100 Jahre Staatliches Gymnasium und Realgymnasium Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 1951, p. 167 ff., 181
  3. ↑ Rolf von Sydow archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Rolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2019
Place of death Berlin