Willy Zielke

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Willy Zielke (actually Wilhelm Otto Zielke , born September 18, 1902 in Łódź ; † June 16, 1989 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German photographer , director , cameraman , film editor and film producer .

Zielke studied from 1923 to 1924 at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich, where he taught himself from 1928 to 1936. In 1929 he took part in the international Werkbund exhibition film and photo in Stuttgart with his glass still lifes . From 1931 he also worked as a filmmaker. Leni Riefenstahl became aware of him through his avant-garde film Das Stahltier about the Reichsbahn and made him her colleague for the production of the Olympic films . In terms of contract, Zielke was responsible for the entire content and artistic design of the so-called prologue of the films. The steel animal , however, was banned by the Propaganda Ministry, according to consistent memories there was a long discussion about this film between Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl, in which the latter could not prevail.

During the shooting of the prologue of the Olympic films , differences arose between Zielke and Riefenstahl. According to Zielke's notes, she wanted to be used as a nude model, but Zielke only picked up her hands. Shortly after he had delivered the finished film material, he was kidnapped on February 13, 1937 and taken to the Haar Psychiatry . An alleged schizophrenia was diagnosed there and Zielke was forcibly sterilized . In Zielke's opinion, Riefenstahl was responsible for the briefing, but he could not prove it to her. In addition, medical experiments were carried out on him in the institution. In August 1942, five years after the forced admission, “the incurable” Zielke was released again, apparently at the instigation of Riefenstahl, who immediately used him again as a cameraman for her film Tiefland . Leni Riefenstahl never apologized to him. The Federal Republic has Zielke in 1987 for the forced sterilization of 5,000  DM compensated. Two years later, on June 16, 1989, he died at the age of 86.

Zielke was married and is the 2nd great-uncle of actress Ann-Kathrin Kramer .

Filmography

  • 1933: Unemployed - a fate of millions (script, director, camera)
  • 1934: The Truth (Cut from "Unemployed")
  • 1935: Freedom Day - Our Wehrmacht (camera)
  • 1935: Das Stahltier (book, editor, director, camera)
  • 1935: triumph of will
  • 1938: Olympia , 2 parts (camera)
  • 1953: Enchanted Lower Rhine (script, director, camera)
  • 1956: Creation without End (camera)

Awards

literature

  • Martin Loiperdinger: Willy Zielke and the Reichsbahn. in: Filmward. June 30, 1994; Pp. 50-55
  • Exhibition catalog Apprenticeship years light years - The Munich Photo School 1900–2000 . Munich City Museum, Munich 2000.
  • hjt: 75 years ago: Willy Zielke and the anniversary “100 Years of the German Railway” ; in: InfoFax: Fotografie , Schellerten, ISSN  0947-8418 , 17th year, June 1st, 2010, 2 b / w ills.
  • Franz Sonnenberger: Willy Zielke, Eugen Roth - how Nuremberg got two premieres. A supplement to the railway jubilee in 1935. in: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg. Volume 97, Nuremberg 2010, pp. 285-319
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: The steel animal. The railway in the shadow of German history ; in: Philately. The magazine of the Association of German Philatelists , Bonn, ISSN  1619-5892 , 62nd vol., No. 398, Aug. 2010, pp. 31–34, 10 color u. B / W ill.
  • Exhibition catalog Licht-Bilder. Fritz Winter and abstract photography , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2013.
  • Thomas Tode: Zielke, Willy. in: Ian Aitken (Ed.): The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge Publishing, 2013 (2006), pp. 1032f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ancestors wanted: Ann-Kathrin Kramer ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). A film by Heiko Schäfer. Broadcast on WDR on March 19, 2010. Accessed on January 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Michael Niehus: Ann-Kathrin Kramer: Leni Riefenstahl had my uncle forcibly sterilized ; Image taken on Sunday March 14, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2010.
  3. ^ Riefenstahl's cameraman ; Westdeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 2010. Accessed March 19, 2010 (no longer available online).
  4. ↑ "... 1933-1938, 34 ', It is about the situation of unemployed men at the end of the Weimar Republic. National Socialism is being propagated as a solution for overcoming their situation and the economic crisis in general. ”From www.dhm.de/archiv/kino/filme2005 , accessed October 21, 2014
  5. ^ German Film Academy : German Film Awards from 1951 to the present day , year 1957. Accessed on March 21, 2010.
  6. ↑ https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/stadtarchiv/vgn_publikationen_mvgn_97.html
personal data
SURNAME Zielke, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, cameraman, film editor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1989
Place of death Bad Pyrmont