Wolfgang Wehrum

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Wolfgang Wehrum (born September 5, 1907 in Essen , North Rhine-Westphalia , † October 25, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German film editor and film director .

Life

Wolfgang Wehrum completed a degree in technology and began working as an assistant director in 1927 . He later served as manager and since 1930 as an editor. In Paris he edited the German versions of French films for French companies.

In 1933 he returned to Germany and worked here as a film editor from 1934. Also in 1934 he founded his Wehrum-Film in Essen and Berlin, with which he produced cultural, educational and advertising films. Up until the beginning of the Second World War, Wehrum edited for various companies, then exclusively for Universum Film (UFA) .

After the end of the war, he continued his collaboration with director Helmut Käutner for some time , with whom he had already worked on the UFA production Unter den Brücken during the war . With artist blood (1949) and the military outfit Piefke, the horror of the company (1958), he himself directed two films with little response. Otherwise he worked as an assistant director again and again, for example for A Man Doesn't Always Be Beautiful and Two Girls from the Red Star .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wehrum, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1971
Place of death Berlin , Germany