Helmut Käutner
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Biography
He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Käutner started out as a director in the Nazi era, but his films remained largely free of National Socialist propaganda.[2] One of his early successes was Romanze in Moll (1943), an adaptation of Guy du Maupassant's short story "Les Bijoux". Other remarkable films were Script error: No such module "Lang". and Under the Bridges.
His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards.[3] Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Käutner made two films for Universal Pictures in Hollywood: The Restless Years (1958) and A Stranger in My Arms (1959). However, neither of them received critical success and Käutner was unhappy with the lack of creative freedom he had, so he returned to Germany.[4] He died in Castellina in Chianti, Italy.
Selected filmography
Director
Feature Films
- Kitty and the World Conference (1939)
- Woman Made to Measure (1940)
- Clothes Make the Man (1940)
- Goodbye, Franziska (1941)
- Anuschka (1942)
- We Make Music (1942)
- Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1944)
- Under the Bridges (1946)
- In Those Days (1947)
- The Original Sin (1948)
- Royal Children (1950)
- The Orplid Mystery (1950)
- White Shadows (1951)
- Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
- The Last Bridge (1954)
- Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
- Ludwig II (1955)
- Des Teufels General (1955)
- Sky Without Stars (1955)
- The Girl from Flanders (1956)
- The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
- The Zurich Engagement (1957)
- Love from Paris (1957)
- The Restless Years (1958)
- Der Schinderhannes (1958)
- A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
- The Rest Is Silence (1959)
- The Goose of Sedan (1959)
- A Glass of Water (1960)
- Black Gravel (1961)
- The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961)
- Redhead (1962)
- The House in Montevideo (1963)
- Template:Ill (1964)
- Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
Television
- Template:Ill (1964, TV film) — (based on The Canterville Ghost)
- Romulus der Große (1965, TV film) — (based on Romulus the Great)
- Die Flasche (1965, TV film) — (based on a story by Joachim Ringelnatz)
- Robin Hood, der edle Räuber (1966, TV film) — (Musical based on Robin Hood)
- Leben wie die Fürsten (1966, TV film) — (based on Template:Ill by Jean Anouilh)
- Die spanische Puppe (1967, TV film) — (based on The Double Doll by Giles Cooper)
- Stella (1967, TV film) — (based on Goethe's play)
- Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch (1967, TV film) — (based on a play by Valentin Kataev)
- Template:Ill (1968, TV film) — (based on Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami)
- Tagebuch eines Frauenmörders (1969, TV film) — (screenplay by István Békeffy)
- Template:Ill (1969, TV film) — (based on a play by Walter Hasenclever and Kurt Tucholsky)
- Einladung ins Schloß oder Die Kunst das Spiel zu spielen (1970, TV film) — (based on Invitation to the Castle)
- Der Kommissar: Anonymer Anruf (1970, TV series episode)
- Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann (1972, TV film) — (based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann)
- Ornifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel (1972, TV film) — (based on a play by Jean Anouilh)
- Die preußische Heirat (1974, TV film) — (based on Zopf und Schwert by Karl Gutzkow)
- Derrick: Template:Ill (1974, TV series episode)
- Margarete in Aix (1976, TV film) — (based on a play by Peter Hacks)
- Mulligans Rückkehr (1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by Template:Ill) (final film)
Screenwriter
- Wibbel the Tailor (1939, directed by Viktor de Kowa)
- Film ohne Titel (1948, directed by Rudolf Jugert)
- Nights on the Road (1952, directed by Rudolf Jugert)
Actor
- Cruiser Emden (1932, directed by Louis Ralph), as Seaman
- A Far Country (1967, TV film, directed by Ida Ehre), as Sigmund Freud
- The Devil and the Good Lord (1967, TV film, directed by Peter Beauvais), as Archbishop
- Template:Ill (1968, TV miniseries, directed by Peter Beauvais), as Sir Gordon Towns
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (1968, TV miniseries, directed by Wolfgang Becker), as Dr. Brenner
- Bend Sinister (1970, TV film, directed by Herbert Vesely), as Adam Krug
- Der Kommissar: Messer im Rücken (1970, TV, directed by Wolfgang Staudte), as Hugo Blasek
- Hauser's Memory (1970, TV film, directed by Boris Sagal), as Dr. Kramer
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (1971, TV miniseries, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth), as Sir Frederic Fairlie
- Tatort: Template:Interlanguage link multi (1971, TV, directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr), as Professor Kemm
- Temptation in the Summer Wind (1972, directed by Rolf Thiele), as Professor Bomhard
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (1973, TV film, directed by Wolfgang Petersen), as Canisius
- Karl May (1974, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg), as Karl May
- Derrick: Template:Ill (1975, TV, directed by Wolfgang Becker), as Paul Seibach
- Derrick: Auf eigene Faust (1976, TV, directed by Zbyněk Brynych), as Duktus
Literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – Unter den Brücken. 1944/45. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; Template:ISBN
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen. 1947. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ Who Is Helmut Käutner? A German master, ripe for centennial rediscovery.
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- ↑ "Das edelste Requisit", Der Spiegel (1959, in German)
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Further reading
- Peter Cornelsen. Helmut Käutner. Seine Filme, sein Leben. München: Heyne 1980. Template:ISBN.
- Wolfgang Jacobsen & Hans-Helmut Prinzler: Käutner. Berlin: Wiss.-Verl. Spiess 1992. Template:ISBN.
- Thomas Koebner, Fabienne Liptay, Claudia Mehlinger & René Ruppert (eds.): Helmut Käutner. München: edition text + kritik 2008. Template:ISBN.
- Hans Dieter Schäfer. Moderne in Dritten Reich. Kultur der Intimität bei Oskar Loerke, Friedo Lampe und Helmut Käutner. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003; Template:ISBN.