Wenzel Lüdecke

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Wenzel Ernst Fritz Lüdecke (born March 26, 1917 in Munich ; † September 5, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German film producer .

Short biography

Wenzel Lüdecke came as the son of a Rittmeister a. D. and painter in Munich to the world. At the age of 15 he broke off his school career in 1932 with the consent of his father and began working as an errand boy for the theater . At the age of 20 he got a contract with UFA and wrote his first screenplay for the crime film Großalarm (1938). During the Second World War he was stationed as a Wehrmacht soldier in Prague, Poland, Russia and finally in the Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel . In Tunis, Lüdecke became an American prisoner of war. After the end of the war and his return to Germany, he earned his living as a liquor smuggler.

Finally Lüdecke set up his own film company, Inter West Film , for himself . One of the stars was Horst Buchholz , with whom Lüdecke also lived for a time, and who played the leading roles in the hit films Die Halbstarken (1956), Endstation Liebe and Nasser Asphalt (both 1958).

In 1949 he founded in Berlin-Lankwitz the Berliner Synchron , which counts up to the present the most important dubbing studios in Germany. Since then, countless foreign films and TV series have been set to music in German by the most well-known speakers and actors of the German dubbing scene. Lüdecke managed his company until 1987 before his son Wolfram took over the business. Two years later, Wenzel Lüdecke died at the age of 73. He was cremated on September 15, 1989 in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf crematorium. The urn was transferred to Westerland on Sylt , where a burial at sea took place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The head of the German soundtrack. Reminder of Wenzel Lüdecke on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of his death on the homepage of WDR 1 on September 5, 2004 (accessed on October 20, 2014).
  2. ↑ Horst Buchholz - the failed world star. ( Memento from April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Information on the NDR homepage .
personal data
SURNAME Lüdecke, Wenzel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüdecke, Wenzel Ernst Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1989
Place of death Berlin