WP Hassenstein

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Wolfgang-Peter Hassenstein (born March 14, 1938 in Germany ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Hassenstein received a photographic training in the second half of the 1950s and gradually worked as a camera assistant and simple cameraman before he rose to head cameraman in 1964. In the following year he was brought in to work alongside his more experienced colleague Kurt Hasse for one of the most legendary German television productions, the ARD science fiction seven-divider Raumpatrouille . At the beginning of 1969, Hassenstein received the Golden Camera for his camera work on Hans-Dieter Schwarzes based on a screenplay by Max von der Grün for the television film “ Shift Change ” (1968) . In the decades to come, Hassenstein photographed a large number of television films, as well as documentaries and advertising productions. Excursions to the cinema like glasses and bombs: you've come to the right place! or Jack Arnold's conventional crime thriller On Balance Murder remained the exceptions.

In the first half of the 1970s in particular, WP Hassenstein was involved in high-quality television films. For example, he photographed two critically acclaimed film-television co-productions Reinhard Hauffs , Matthias Kneißl and Die Verrohung des Franz Blum , as well as the two periodicals from the anti-Nazi resistance Operation Walküre and Die Rote Kapelle as well as the ambitious literary adaptation of The Stechlin with Arno Assmann .

From the middle of the same decade, the Munich-based resident made himself available mainly for conventional productions and was involved in work as varied as the diamond smugglers, action and adventure series “ Hardness 10 ” filmed in South Africa , Michael Pflegehars Klamauk Two Heavenly Daughters and the home series Forsthaus Falkenau , one Hassenstein's late work, behind the camera. In the course of the 1990s, Hassenstein was hardly employed anymore, his last major work was five episodes of the ZDF series Schloßhotel Orth broadcast in 2000 .

Filmography

literature

  • Camera Guide. Yearbook of the BVK Bundesverband Kamera eV, Munich 1994, p. 106

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personal data
SURNAME Hassenstein, WP
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassenstein, Wolfgang-Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany