Wolfgang Becker (director, 1910)
Wolfgang Becker (born May 15, 1910 in Berlin ; † January 30, 2005 in Munich ) was a German film director , film editor and film producer .
Life
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Wolfgang Becker was the son of Pastor Dr. Johannes Becker and his wife Sigrid, née von Wolzo , daughter of Ernst von Wolzo and sister of Hans von Wolzo . After attending secondary school , he began a commercial apprenticeship in 1927 at the Orenstein & Koppel locomotive factory in Berlin.
In 1930 he started a traineeship as an editor at the Tobis film company , mostly assisting Andrew Marton . In 1931 he took over responsibility for larger parts of the film editing himself for the first time in Die Nacht ohne Pause . From 1932 he worked for Ufa ; from 1935 he was freelance. In 1937 he worked as assistant director for the production of The Coral Princess.
In 1939 he took part in the attack on Poland , from 1940 he worked for the Heeresfilmstelle and was involved in the making of several military films. In 1944 he was classified as “indispensable” and worked for director Josef von Báky on his film Via Mala .
After the war he continued to work as an editor. From 1950 he directed some short documentaries for the Willy Zeyn film and then for his own Wolfgang Becker film production, Munich. In 1955, as one of four directors, he was able to shoot part of the episode film Heroism after the store closed, his first feature film.
In the 1960s he worked increasingly for television. After the very successful three-part films The Death Runs Behind and Babeck, as well as episodes in the ZDF series Das Kriminalmuseum and The Fifth Column , he largely became a crime specialist. Until the early 1990s, Becker, who lived with the actress Gracia-Maria Kaus , shot numerous episodes of crime series such as Der Kommissar , Derrick , Tatort and Der Alte .
It rests in the forest cemetery in Grünwald near Munich.
His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Awards
- 1974: Silver nymph at the Monaco television festival for a duel
- 1977: Golden Camera for The Suburban Crocodiles
- 1978: Prix de spectateur tchèchoslovaque (Œuvre dramatique de télévision) of the Zlata television festival for The Suburban Crocodiles
- 1981: Golden Gong magazine Gong for from one day to another , together with Gerd Boeckmann
Filmography
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literature
- Matias Bleckman (MBM), Jörg Schöning (JPS): Wolfgang Becker - cutter, director, producer , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Volume 10 (1988)
Web links
- Wolfgang Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfgang Becker at filmportal.de
- Wolfgang Becker in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Wolfgang Becker Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Wolfgang Becker
- ^ Wolfgang Becker Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 2005 |
| Place of death | Munich |