Willi Sohm

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Willi Sohm (born August 18, 1913 in Neufelden ; † February 1, 1974 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cameraman .

He trained as an engineer at the technical and industrial training institute in Mödling and then worked as a camera assistant at UFA and Terra . Bruno Mondi and Willy Winterstein in particular were among his bosses .

After the war, Sohm was responsible for numerous German-Austrian musical comedies as a cameraman in the 1950s. He worked with various directors such as Géza von Bolváry and Géza von Cziffra . His best performances are the opera and operetta adaptations Don Giovanni ( Don Juan , 1955) and Gasparone (1956). Except for feature films, Sohm was used in documentaries. From 1961 to 1963 he taught image technology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the first seminar for film and television at an Austrian art academy, which he and Hans Winge set up as the first media art course at an Austrian academy of fine arts. When this seminar was closed, he began teaching camera at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, now the Vienna Film Academy, from 1964. He is the father of Wolfgang Sohm , an Austrian concept artist .

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  1. ↑ CONCEPTUALnow Facsimile: Wiener Zeitung - March 21, 1961 "Film Seminar Foundation - A pioneering"; Facsimile: Seminar plan for film and television, accessed on August 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Sohm, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Neufelden
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1974
Place of death Vienna