Walter Zollin

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Walter Zollin , born as Walter Zollinger (born December 2, 1918 in Wiesbaden , German Empire , † after summer 1999 in Switzerland) was a Swiss film architect .

Live and act

The son of the Zurich actor Walter Zollinger, born in 1877, called "Zollin", who was engaged at the Court and State Theater Wiesbaden between 1901 and 1924, received his artistic training in the late 1930s at the Zurich School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ( Study of European architecture and art history), which he completed with a diploma. In addition, Walter Zollin jr. an apprenticeship as a decorative painter. In 1940/41 he joined the film industry in Switzerland. At the side of his experienced colleague Fritz Butz , Zollin junior began in 1941 as a co-architect in the creation of the film structures for the productions Romeo and Juliet on the Dorfe and Bider der Flieger . Immediately afterwards, in 1941, Zollin went to Vienna, where he was the second architect involved in Willi Forst's large-scale production, Wiener Blut .

The experienced chief architect Werner Schlichting became his teacher at Wien-Film . Until the end of the war in 1945 Zollin was involved in a subordinate role in the production of such illustrious film successes as Who the Gods Love , Late Love, The White Dream and Titanic , where he created the models of the trick shots as part of the special effects. This was followed by other auxiliary activities as a second architect for the films The Commanding Call , Viennese Girls , The Other Life , Eroica , White Gold, The Third Man , Föhn , Palace-Hotel and a number of cultural and scientific films such as Art of the Etruscans and a BBC Luther film. Zollin also found temporary employment as a set designer. Unlike most of his colleagues, Walter Zollin never succeeded in asserting himself as chief architect for German or Swiss films after 1945. After 1945, he was only able to build cinema films for two Swiss productions in the 1950s.

Zollin lived in a Swiss nursing home in the summer of 1999. In 2005 he was no longer listed in the yearbook Film and Television Design Annual of the Association of Set Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers, so it should have passed away by then.

Filmography

Only as the chief architect of feature films:

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1947.
  • Film and Television Design Annual, 7th year 1993/94, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 115

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Zollin the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon
  2. ↑ according to information from the association of production designers, film architects and costume designers.
personal data
SURNAME Zollin, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zollinger, Walter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH after 1999