Wolfgang Wehrum
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)
- 1934: It's nice to be in love
- 1934: invitation to dance
- 1935: The clever women
- 1935: The red rider
- 1936: practical jokes
- 1936: Flowers from Nice
- 1936: The women's paradise
- 1937: inheritance of millions
- 1937: The irresistible
- 1938: Traveling people
- 1939: Maria Ilona
- 1939: Fire in the ocean
- 1940: Made-to-measure woman
- 1941: U-boats westward!
- 1942: diesel
- 1943: The Majorate Lord
- 1943: love stories
- 1943: You belong to me
- 1943: The wife
- 1944: reverie
- 1945: life goes on
- 1945: Under the bridges
- 1947: In those days
- 1948: Untitled film
- 1948: The apple is gone
- 1949: Artist's blood (also direction and co-screenplay)
- 1950: royal children
- 1953: hit parade
- 1953: Southern nights
- 1954: A girl from Paris
- 1955: Hanussen
- 1956: A man doesn't always have to be beautiful
- 1956: Spy for Germany
- 1957: Bank vault 713
- 1957: In contrast, being a father is a lot
- 1957: three men on one horse
- 1958: Two hearts in May
- 1958: That only happened once
- 1958: Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11
- 1958: It was the first love
- 1958: Piefke, the horror of the company (only direction)
- 1959: Court martial
- 1960: When the heather blooms
- 1960: the last witness
- 1961: three men in one boat
- 1961: on the 6th floor
- 1961: Allow me - My name is Cox (series)
- 1962: The Threepenny Opera
- 1962: As great as it was back then
- 1962: Honey, I have to shoot you
- 1962: Ninety minutes after midnight
- 1963: Holidays like never before
- 1963: The white spider
- 1963: Port Police (series)
- 1964: The Dartmoor public house
- 1964: Breakfast with death
- 1964: The wind blows hot
- 1964: Lana - Queen of the Amazons
- 1965: duel before sunset
- 1970: Heintje - One day the sun will shine again
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 .
Web links
- Wolfgang Wehrum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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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 |