Toni Lüdi

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Toni Lüdi (born January 6, 1945 in Taufkirchen ) is a German production designer , set designer and university professor .

Life

Lüdi studied painting at the London Art College in Hammersmith and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . The Swiss first came into contact with film in 1968 when he took on a role in Hans W. Geißendörfer's television film “ The Lena Christ Case ”. From 1968 to 1970 Lüdi ran a graphic design studio with his British-born colleague Anthony Powell, who later worked for German entertainment television . Later both worked on numerous entertainment programs with show character such as " Info-Show", "Hermann van Veen " and " Clown & Co. ".

Lüdi has been the chief designer of film structures for German television since 1970. Since then, Lüdi has designed the sets for well over 100 programs, including TV games and entertainment programs for Bavarian Radio and Südwestfunk. Geißendörfer engaged him in 1985, for whom he had designed the decorations for the eight-part TV production 'Theodor Chindler' in 1978. The result was the basic equipment for the long-lasting Lindenstrasse series , Germany's first soap opera.

Lüdi made his film debut at the end of 1976, when he and his wife Heidi Lüdi were hired for the drafts of Wim Wenders ' “ The American Friend ”. Since then, Lüdi has worked for selected productions by central German filmmakers. "The most impressive thing for him were the decorations for Geißendörfer's Thomas Mann adaptation" The Magic Mountain ", for which he and his wife were awarded the Federal Film Prize in 1982. " In 1985 he made some of Dante Ferretti's designs for the Umberto Eco film The Name of the Rose around. After seven years of abstinence from the cinema, Lüdi returned to the big screen in 1994 with very sparse interiors in the mass murder psychogram Der Totmacher .

Association and teaching activities

Between 1983 and 1991 Lüdi sat on the board of the association of production and film architects and costume designers and was also its managing director. From 1988 to 1991 he was also a member of the collecting society Bild-Kunst . In 2003 he was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy and then became a member of the board of the German Film Academy .

Toni Lüdi was also active as a teacher in the field of design. As a professor he taught interior design at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim and since 2000 at the University of Film and Television in Munich in the course "Film and television scene design".

Filmography (complete, without TV shows)

As a production designer at the cinema, unless otherwise stated

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 129.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüdi, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Taufkirchen