Wolfgang Urchs

Wolfgang Urchs (born September 2, 1922 in Munich ; † September 3, 2016 there ) was a German director .

Life

Wolfgang Urchs, son of the tropical doctor Oswald Urchs , grew up in the Dutch Guiana and India . He obtained his Abitur at a boarding school in southern Germany . After studying graphic painting at the art academy in Vienna and Stuttgart, he worked as a caricaturist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 1963 he has been producing animations for the Mainzelmännchen, among others, and was one of the pioneers of German animation , directing and writing scripts , among other things .

His first freely financed cartoon was 1962 Die Gartenzwerge , which was made in collaboration with Boris von Borresholm and Peter Schamoni . The content of the film was mostly of a socially critical nature: in The Gun from 1963, the main character of the animated film has to deal with a pistol firing at random, whereas the main character of the film The Machine from 1966 is eaten up by this formerly practical machine towards the end.

One of his best-known cartoons is Peterchens Mondfahrt from 1990.

Urchs belonged to the group of young filmmakers who wrote the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962 and is considered one of the founders of the young German film . In 1963 he received a German Film Prize in the cultural and documentary films category . His film Contrasts was awarded the Silver Bear in 1964 and in 1966 his film Machine was awarded the Gold Ribbon for Short Films.

In 1975 he founded TC Filmstudio GmbH & Co. Trickfilm KG, based in Munich, with which he produced Peterchens Mondfahrt in 1990 and which was dissolved at the end of 2011. Jürgen Richter was his employee at times.

Filmography (selection)

Director

1971: Fräulein von Stradonitz in memoriam
1985, 1989: Janosch's dream hour

Director and camera

1962: The garden gnomes

Direction and script

1964: contrasts

1968: Time for dreamers (script together with his wife Dagmar Kekulé)
1988: The worm is in the ark
1990: Peter's trip to the moon

Director and Producer

1962: The weeds

camera

1964/65: The hot peace (Director: Ferdinand Khittl , together with Hal Clay)

Web links

Wolfgang Urchs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Wolfgang Urchs at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Der Junge deutsche Film: Documentation for an exhibition by Constantin-Film [opened on March 30, 1967 in the Constantin Film-Center, Berlin; Editor, Leonhard H. Gmür]. publisher not identified, 1967, p. 67 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ Annika Schoemann: The German animation film: from the beginnings to the present 1909-2001 . Gardez !, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89796-089-3 , pp. 215 ( google.de [accessed March 17, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 46 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 36 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
^ Rebels of yore. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 25, 2012, accessed March 17, 2020 .
^ Hans Helmut Prinzler: Chronicle of German Films 1895-1994 . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-03585-1 , pp. 239 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ Westermanns monthly notebooks . G. Westermann., 1966, p. 112 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 62 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 63 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).
↑ Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 64 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Urchs, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	3rd September 2016
Place of death	Munich

[:0-1] A ^b Der Junge deutsche Film: Documentation for an exhibition by Constantin-Film [opened on March 30, 1967 in the Constantin Film-Center, Berlin; Editor, Leonhard H. Gmür]. publisher not identified, 1967, p. 67 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[2] Annika Schoemann: The German animation film: from the beginnings to the present 1909-2001 . Gardez !, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89796-089-3 , pp. 215 ( google.de [accessed March 17, 2020]).

[:1-3] Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 46 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[4] Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 36 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[5] Rebels of yore. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 25, 2012, accessed March 17, 2020 .

[6] Hans Helmut Prinzler: Chronicle of German Films 1895-1994 . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-03585-1 , pp. 239 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[7] Westermanns monthly notebooks . G. Westermann., 1966, p. 112 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[8] Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 62 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[:2-9] Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 63 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).

[10] Julia Eckel, Erwin Feyersinger, Meike Uhrig: Im Wandel ... Metamorphoses of animation . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15997-9 , pp. 64 ( google.de [accessed on March 17, 2020]).