Wolfgang Kühnlenz

Wolfgang Kühnlenz (born September 24, 1925 , † February 26, 2008 in Marquartstein ) was a German film production manager .

Live and act

Kühnlenz began his career in the early 50s as a manager in the movie. In this role he was involved in well-known films such as Roberto Rossellini's Angst with Ingrid Bergman and Mathias Wieman , Kurt Hoffmann's I think often of Piroschka with Liselotte Pulver and Helmut Käutner's Monpti with Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz . From the end of 1956 Kühnlenz also worked as an assistant director, initially for some of Hoffmann's top productions ( Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull , Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , We Wunderkinder ).

Kühnlenz remained production manager until 1963, most recently for the Edgar Wallace films Der Zinker and Der Schwarze Abt . In the same year, starting with Alfred Vohrer's Das Indian Cloth , Wolfgang Kühnlenz was production manager. In the period that followed, until the fall of 1967, Kühnlenz oversaw a number of other Wallace films as well as several Karl May adaptations. After working on The Dog from Blackwood Castle , Kühnlenz turned away from film and from the beginning of the 1970s only worked for television. There he also worked as a production manager on several Hamburg crime scene thrillers with Commissioner Trimmel . In 1980 Kühnlenz ended his film and television activities.

Filmography

as production manager; Cinema until 1968, then television

• 1963: The Indian cloth
• 1964: Room 13
• 1964: Waiting room to the afterlife
• 1964: The Traitor's Gate
• 1964: Winnetou 2nd part
• 1964: Among vultures
• 1965: The Oil Prince
• 1965: Old Surehand 1st part
• 1965: Winnetou 3rd part
• 1966: Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi
• 1966: The hunchback from Soho
• 1966: Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand
• 1966: The secret of the white nun (only German version)
• 1966: The oldest trade in the world (Le plus vieux métier du monde) (only German episode)
• 1967: The blue hand
• 1967: The monk with the whip
• 1967: The Snake Pit and the Pendulum
• 1968: The Dog from Blackwood Castle
• 1971: Tatort: ​​The Judge in White (his first crime scene crime story)
• 1972: Crime Scene: Expect the worst
• 1972: Memory of a summer in Berlin
• 1973: A Wednesday in June
• 1973: The scene of the crime: Trimmel was sent off
• 1974: crime scene: poison
• 1977: Women in New York
• 1978: Crime scene: Trimmel makes a plea
• 1980: The way of Hans Monn, 3rd part: After ten years in a mental hospital

literature

• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 925.

Web links

• Wolfgang Kühnlenz in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Wolfgang Kühnlenz at filmportal.de
• Kühnlenz obituary notice