Walter Tjaden

Walter Tjaden (born August 9, 1906 in Oldenburg , Lower Saxony ; † November 4, 1985 in Starnberg , Bavaria ) was a German sound engineer and production manager for Austrian and German film.

Live and act

Tjaden had studied at the polytechnic in his native Oldenburg and in 1927 went to the research department of Siemens , where he was involved in the development of sound film equipment.

He then switched to film and became UFA's first sound engineer. Until the 1950s, Walter Tjaden remained the leading sound engineer in German-speaking cinema alongside Walter Rühland . Based in Vienna from 1936 , he already worked sporadically as a production manager and assistant director (for example, in 1937 with Peter im Schnee ).

From 1952 Tjaden worked briefly as broadcasting manager at Hamburg- based NWDR . Since 1954 he has concentrated entirely on the production management of the (mostly Austrian) cinema and produced, among other things, the late productions of Willi Forst . In the 1960s, Walter Tjaden temporarily turned away from the feature film and produced advertising films with his own company, before he started working regularly as a production manager again from 1968, now based in Munich . In these functions, he oversaw several productions by Rolf Thiele and two Simmel film adaptations .

In 1976 Walter Tjaden retired from the film business. His grave is on the Gertrudenfriedhof (Oldenburg) in Oldenburg .

Filmography

Sound engineer

1930: Rose Monday 1930: Susanne puts things in order 1930: Her Majesty Love 1931: The disgust 1931: Bombs on Monte Carlo 1931: Yorck 1932: Cruiser Emden 1933: Hitler Youth Quex 1933: Viktor and Viktoria

1934: A man wants to go to Germany 1934: blood brothers 1935: Gypsy baron 1935: The last voyage of the Santa Margareta 1935: The Last Four from Santa Cruz 1944: The heart must be silent 1947: Hofrat Geiger 1950: King for one night

Production, manufacturing manager or overall manager

1937: Favorite of the sailors 1938: Princess Sissy 1938: Hotel Sacher 1940: Danube boatman 1949: The Seal of God 1954: A house full of love 1955: Yes, that's the way it is with love (marriage sanatorium) 1955: homeland 1955: Dunja 1955: Crown Prince Rudolf's last love 1956: Carter Henschel 1956: When Poldi moves into maneuvers ( maneuver twin ) 1956: Lies have pretty legs 1956: red poppy seeds 1956: Kaiserjäger 1957: The unexcused hour 1957: The linden landlady from the Danube beach 1957: Vienna, you city of my dreams 1958: The magic of clothing 1958: beloved beast 1958: You'd have to be twenty again 1959: Mikosch in the secret service

1959: labyrinth 1960: In the White Horse Inn 1961: Freud 1962: The escape of the white stallions 1963: Bluebeard's castle 1966: Career ( A belles dents ) 1968: Come on, my dearest bird 1969: Grimm's fairy tale of lustful couples 1970: O Happy Day 1970: Fresh, pious, happy, free 1970: Angels Burning Their Wings 1970: Sharp Heinrich 1971: The captain 1972: The stuff dreams are made of 1972: And the rain blurs every trace 1973: The East Frisian Report : Oh my, the East Frisians have giants 1974: Charly's nieces 1975: The keeper of secrets 1975: Mimosas want to bloom too 1975: Women's ward (premiere: 1977)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 688.

Web links

• Walter Tjaden at filmportal.de
• Walter Tjaden in the Internet Movie Database (English)