Wolf Seesselberg

Wolf-Jürgen Seesselberg (born January 11, 1941 in Hamburg , German Reich ) is a German film architect , stage and production designer and university lecturer.

Live and act

Wolf-Jürgen Seesselberg received his artistic training at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf and gained practical experience with the renowned stage designer Teo Otto , whose assistant he was until his death. As a freelance set designer, Seesselberg was then hired at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and then went to other theaters as a guest. He also sporadically designed opera productions. Seesselberg also taught, from 1967 to 1973 he was head of the theater and film class at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and from 1984 he was professor at the film architecture seminar at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.

Wolf Seesselberg has also been active as a film architect and production designer since 1965. In this area he worked with a number of well-known directors, including Peter Beauvais , Egon Monk , Peter Schulze-Rohr , Rolf von Sydow , Dieter Wedel , Jérôme Savary , Tom Toelle , Hermann Leitner , Marcel Ophüls , Gero Erhardt , Jürgen Goslar , Heinrich Breloer and Wolfgang Becker . He delivered his first important production design in 1966 as the right hand of his old teacher Otto in the television adaptation of the play Yegor Bulytschow and others (after Maxim Gorki ). Since the mid-1970s, Seesselberg has been designing film structures for television games and series, less often for cinema productions such as 40 qm Deutschland , an oppressive inventory of Turkish life abroad, and Süpersek , this time a comedic story from the German-Turkish environment. Wolf Seesselberg also made his sets for popular North German series such as Kümo Henriette , Die Bertinis , Das Erbe der Guldenburgs , Adelheid and their murderers and The King of St. Pauli known . In 2007 he ended his television career.

Filmography

As a television architect, unless otherwise stated

• 1966: Yegor Bulytschow and others
• 1976: Parisian Stories (series)
• 1977: Fortune seekers
• 1979: Kümo Henriette (series)
• 1982: Festival
• 1983: The robbery of the Sabine women
• 1984: bugged
• 1984: Just give us a call
• 1985: women's choice
• 1985: up close
• 1985: Limitless sky blue
• 1986: 40 qm Germany (movie)
• 1988: The Bertinis (series)
• 1988: the booty
• 1987–1990: The Legacy of the Guldenburgs (series)
• 1990: Farewell to Strangers (cinema)
• 1991: The homesickness of Walerjan Wróbel (cinema)
• 1991: Crime scene: Finale at Rothenbaum
• 1992: La Paloma no longer flies
• 1993: Bad Blood (series)
• 1993–1994: Adelheid and her murderers (series)
• 1995: Anna - Under the spell of evil
• 1995: fear has a cold hand
• 1995: Paradise, Brooklyn ( Someone Else's America ) (Cinema)
• 1996: guilty on suspicion
• 1996: Crash Kids
• 1997: Death Game
• 1997: The King of St. Pauli
• 1999: The blue and the gray days
• 2000: The letter bomber
• 2000: The Riddle of the Blood Red Ruby
• 2002: duel
• 2002: first love
• 2003: Süperseks (feature film)
• 2005: The Fat One (series)
• 2007: The magic of the rainbow

literature

• Film and Television Design Annual, 2nd year 1987, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 70
• Film and Television Design Annual, 7th year 1993/94, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 104

Web links

• Wolf Seeßelberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Wolf Seesselberg at filmportal.de