Willie Hoffmann-Andersen

Willie Hoffmann-Andersen (born January 15, 1904 in Berlin , † after 1960) was a German film producer .

Live and act

Hoffmann-Andersen had completed practical training in various film branches. Before joining production, the Berlin native worked as a unit manager, camera assistant and production manager. Immediately after the Second World War, he was also head of a guest performance management company based in Munich. With the Apollo-Filmproduktion GmbH, Hoffmann-Andersen founded his own film production company in 1950, which brought a total of 14 films to the cinemas over the next six years - all of them lightweight entertainment products.

For decades, established old stars such as Hans Söhnker , Willy Birgel , Ilse Werner , Rudolf Forster , Rudolf Prack and Theo Lingen have appeared in front of the camera for the Apollo . The Apollo production range mainly comprised melodramas, homeland films and Edelschnulzen. In 1956 Hoffmann-Andersen ended his film work abruptly. The producer was married twice and last lived (1960) in Berlin-Dahlem. His date of death is currently unknown.

Filmography (complete)

• 1950: The stars don't lie
• 1950: hearts in a storm
• 1951: Through thick and thin
• 1951: When the evening bells ring
• 1952: You mustn't ask my heart
• 1952: When the heather dreams in the evening
• 1953: We'll talk about love later
• 1953: Life begins at seventeen
• 1953: red roses, red lips, red wine
• 1954: Ännchen von Tharau
• 1954: Captain Vronsky
• 1955: a man forgets love
• 1955: One woman is not enough?
• 1956: forest winter

literature

• Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 297 f.
• Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 696

Web links

• Willie Hoffmann-Andersen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Willie Hoffmann-Andersen at filmportal.de