Rudi Kurz
Rudi Kurz (born May 9, 1921 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German screenwriter , actor and director .
Life
Kurz completed an acting degree in Mannheim. His apprenticeship was the five-year work as an actor, dramaturge and senior stage director at the Altenburg State Theater . He then worked for five years as a director at the Schauspielhaus and the Kammerspiele in Leipzig and was director of the youth theater. In addition, he held a lectureship at the Leipzig Theater Academy.
From 1958 to 1960, Kurz was active for the first time in the field of film and television. He subsequently directed around 20 television plays and a number of films. The five-part television films The Green Monster and The Trace Leads to 7th Heaven as well as the 13-part series Archive of Death and Front Without Mercy were great audiences in the GDR . In addition to the political and biographical films (about Hans Beimler , Artur Becker and Ernst Schneller ), the three-part film Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz also found favor with television viewers. Kurz has written his own films since the five-part film about Manfred von Brauchitsch's life , No Victory Without Fight .
Kurz belongs to the permanent circle of authors of the communist-socialist monthly " RotFuchs ".
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1959/60: Das Stacheltier (several short films)
- 1962: The one from 12b
watch TV
- 1958: Blue blood and delicate skin
- 1960: slogan free Germany
- 1961: beloved starlet
- 1962: The Green Monster (5 parts)
- 1963: The trail leads to the 7th heaven (5 parts)
- 1964: It doesn't work without love (TV)
- 1964: The find
- 1964: light on the fields
- 1966: Without a fight there is no victory (5 parts)
- 1967: The man from Canada
- 1968: meeting point Geneva (2 parts)
- 1969: Project Aqua (2 parts)
- 1969: Hans Beimler, comrade (4 parts)
- 1971: Artur Becker (3 parts)
- 1972: The Secret of the Andes (5 parts)
- 1974: The Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz (3 parts; about the work of a people's police officer in Berlin)
- 1977: Ernst Schneller (2 parts; the story of the workers' leader, teacher and communist)
- 1980: Archive of Death (13 parts; about the NS Archive Wieliczka)
- 1984: Front without mercy (13 parts; the fight against fascism and war in Germany, Spain and the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1945)
- 1986: Around the clock [author], (7 parts)
Theater (direction)
- 1960: Hedda Zinner : Performance Control - ( Theater of Friendship )
- 1961: Friedrich Wolf : Beaumarchais or The Birth of Figaro - ( Volksbühne Berlin )
Publications
- Rudi Kurz: Hans Beimler, comrade. 248 p., Numerous illustrations. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1970.
- Rudi Kurz: The green and other monsters. Theater, television and lifetime. 334 p., Numerous illustrations. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Böklund 2008, ISBN 978-3-939828-24-2 .
Some of the stories from this book have appeared in:
- "Red Fox". (2006 and 2007)
- Conversations by the German fireplace. Thurneyser-Verlag, 2007.
- Traces of truth. GDR - indelible. GNN-Verlag, 2008.
literature
- Ingeborg Münz-Koenen: on "Hans Beimler, comrade". in: TV drama. Experiments, methods, tendencies. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974, pp. 228-231.
- B. Thurm: on “No victory without a fight”. in: Film and television art in the GDR. Traditions, examples, tendencies. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 290-291.
- Peter Hoff: Adventure story or story as adventure? Thoughts on the television series “Front Without Mercy”. In: Prism. Cinema and television almanac No. 16, Henschelverlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 55-68.
Individual evidence
- ↑ November 2017 edition of the RotFuchs
Web links
- Rudi Kurz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rudi Kurz at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | In short, Rudi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter, actor and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |