Walter Hrich
Walter Hrich (born April 18, 1907 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † after 1967, probably in Berlin) was a German cameraman .
Live and act
Hrich is said to have been the son of the sound engineer and cameraman Eugen Hrich . After attending a secondary school, Walter Hrich learned his trade in the transition period from silent to sound film. In the 12-minute short, socialist proletarian film Zeitprobleme: How the Worker Lives by Slatan Dudow , Hrich can be proven for the first time as chief cameraman in 1930. In the same year he worked as a camera assistant for GW Pabst's famous film adaptation of the Threepenny Opera .
In the following years he served as a camera assistant at Tobis until the UFA hired him as a cameraman for their newsreel in 1938 . Immediately afterwards, shortly before and shortly after the beginning of the Second World War , Hrich was one of several cameramen of central Nazi propaganda film documentaries , for example about the Siegfried Line , the deployment of the Condor Legion , the attack on Poland and the invasion of Norway . Then Hrich was drafted and fell into British captivity. He spent his internment years in Australia from 1941 to 1947 . Released back to Germany, Walter Hrich stood behind the camera for various German film companies and photographed a series of conventional cinema entertainment from the 1950s , mostly as a simple cameraman or junior partner of much more famous colleagues such as Fritz Arno Wagner , Igor Oberberg and Albert Benitz . In the 1960s, Hrich only designed the look of television productions before he retired into private life in 1967. When he died is currently (as of July 2017) unknown.
Filmography
- 1930: Time problems: How the worker lives
- 1939: In the fight against the world enemy (NS propaganda commissioned film)
- 1939: The West Wall (NS propaganda commissioned film)
- 1939: Campaign in Poland (NS propaganda commissioned film)
- 1940: Battle for Norway - Campaign 1940 (NS propaganda commissioned film)
- 1950: The Rabanser case
- 1951: A day is coming
- 1952: homesick for you
- 1952: Queen of the arena
- 1953: The night ghost
- 1955: Hotel Adlon
- 1956: a thousand melodies
- 1956: Wedding at Immenhof
- 1956: Beloved Corinna
- 1957: Holidays at Immenhof
- 1957: The girl without pajamas
- 1957: Looking for a nanny for dad
- 1958: He walked by my side
- 1958: The Czardas King
- 1959: Decoy of the night
- 1959: Tomorrow you will cry for me
- 1960: It Happened on the Border (TV series)
- 1963: At Home With Us (TV series)
- 1964: Six Hours of Fear (TV movie)
- 1966: Daring Game (TV series)
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560736 , p. 719.
Web links
- Walter Hrich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Hrich at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Glenzdorf's Internationales Film-Lexikon and other sources, but then Eugen Hrich would have to have been less than 16 years old when he obtained paternity
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hrich, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1967 |
Place of death | unsure: Berlin |