Thomas Fantl
Thomas Fantl (born December 9, 1928 in Prague , † July 20, 2001 in Munich ) was a Czech-German film director .
Fantl came from a German-Jewish family. He survived the Holocaust ; in the years 1941 to 1945 he was deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt , Auschwitz and Buchenwald .
After the war he worked at FAMU in Prague and was a. a. Assistant director to Juri Weiss . Between 1954 and 1955 he was banned from working in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, where he initially worked as an editor and dramaturge at Film-Hansa. Fantl had been a freelance director since 1963, primarily for ZDF . Among other things, he directed the television series On the Road to Atlantis . In 1964 the feature film Die Zeit der Schuldlosen was made based on the drama by Siegfried Lenz , with his collaboration on the script. Fantl directed a total of 43 times, although he has only worked sporadically since the early 1980s.
The film producer Jan Fantl is his son.
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 110.
Web links
- Thomas Fantl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fantl, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 2001 |
| Place of death | Munich |