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Maetzig at a screening of the film Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse in 1955. Kurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. He was one of the most respected filmmakers of the GDR. [1] After his retirement he lived in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg ...
Kurt Maetzig. Kurt Maetzig (* 25. Januar 1911 in Berlin; † 8. August 2012 in Bollewick -Wildkuhl) [1] war ein deutscher Filmregisseur. Zu seinen bekanntesten Filmen zählen Ehe im Schatten (1947), die zweiteilige Biografie Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse und Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse (1954/1955) sowie Das Kaninchen bin ...
Sep 2, 2012 · Kurt Maetzig, a pioneering East German director whose socialist films scrutinized anti-Semitism, explored corporate complicity in the rise of fascism and helped compel Germans to come to terms ...
Kurt Maetzig. Director: The Rabbit Is Me. Kurt Maetzig was born on 25 January 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954).
- Director, Writer, Actor
- January 25, 1911
- Kurt Maetzig
- August 8, 2012
Aug 9, 2012 · German director Kurt Maetzig, who was banned by the Nazis from making films but went on to co-found Communist East Germany's state-owned film production company, died on Wednesday, a former ...
Sep 3, 2012 · Kurt Maetzig, a pioneering figure in East Germany’s socialist film industry after World War II who became one of the country’s most respected directors, not least for compelling Germans to ...
Kurt Maetzig was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1911. His father owned a film duplication facility, and his mother came from a wealthy family of tea merchants from Hamburg and Denmark. During the First World War, Maetzig lived in Hamburg-Harvestehude with his grandmother.
