Theodor Kotulla

Theodor Kotulla (born August 20, 1928 in Królewska Huta (Königshütte O / S.), Today Chorzów , Poland ; † October 20, 2001 in Munich ) was a German director and screenwriter.

Live and act

In 1946 the son of an organist went to the zones of Germany occupied by the Western Allies . Without a degree, he studied journalism, German and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he wrote film and literary reviews since 1952. He also wrote articles for the magazine Filmkritik, founded in 1957 . In 1962 he wrote his first screenplay for the television film The 18th Birthday . Five years later he made his first film with Bresson, for example . For this documentary he received the Federal Film Prize . In 1968 he made his debut as a feature film director with Until the Happy End . For the short film Before the Enemy from the same year he was again awarded the Federal Film Prize.

Filmography (selection)

• 1967: Bresson, for example
• 1968: Until the happy ending
• 1972: No forbearance
• 1977: From a German life
• 1981: The Maurizius case (5-part television film)
• 1988: Crime scene: solitary confinement (with Götz George in the role of Commissioner Horst Schimanski )
• 1988: The attack
• 1991: No talk of violence (TV film)
• 1994: Death on Halde (TV movie)
• 1994: Women's Night (mini-series in three parts)
• 1995: Cross-border commuters

literature

Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen (ed.): Theodor Kotulla. Director and critic (with texts by Theodor Kotulla and essays by Peter W. Jansen and Heinz Ungureit as well as a film bibliography by Ulrich Döge), edition text + kritik, Munich 2005, 252 pages, ISBN 3-88377-794-3 (volume 1 of the Book series film & writing)

Web links

• Theodor Kotulla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography on www.deutsches-filmhaus.de