Walter Hrich

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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

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. 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