Wolfgang Staudte

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Wolfgang Staudte
Born	Georg Friedrich Staudte (1906-10-09)9 October 1906 Saarbrücken, German Empire
Died	19 January 1984(1984-01-19) (aged 77) SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Actor
Years active	1932–1969

Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 – 19 January 1984), born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken.

His most important work came in the ten years following World War II, in which he worked with the DEFA in East Germany. The main focus of his work was to highlight the limits of German national pride. His work in anti-Nazi films, such as Murderers Among Us (1946), was also a personal working through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß).

Following 1956 he worked in West Germany. By the 1970s, his work was no longer considered particularly modern and he moved to television, on shows such as Der Kommissar and Tatort.

He is the great-uncle of the German-Iranian director and novelist Andy Siege.

Filmography[]

As director[]

Film

• Bravo Acrobat! (1943)
•  [de] (1944) — based on a story by Johann von Vásáry
•  [de] (1944, lost film, rediscovered 1996)
• The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
• The Adventures of Fridolin (1948) — remake of the lost film Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl
• Rotation (1949)
• Second Hand Destiny (1949)
• A Tale of Five Cities (1951, anthology film)
• Der Untertan (1951) — based on the novel Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann
• Poison in the Zoo (directed by Hans Müller, 1952)
•  [de] (premiere: 1952, Überläufer from 1945)
• Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953) — based on the fairy tale Little Muck by Wilhelm Hauff
• Leuchtfeuer (1954)
• Ciske de Rat (Dutch-language, 1955) — based on the novel Ciske de Rat by Piet Bakker
  • Ciske – ein Kind braucht Liebe (German-language, 1955) — based on the novel Ciske de Rat by Piet Bakker
• Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955, unfinished film) — based on Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children
• Rose Bernd (1957) — based on Rose Bernd by Gerhart Hauptmann
•  [de] (1958)
•  [it] (1958) — screenplay by Ennio de Concini, Duccio Tessari and W. Staudte
• The Muzzle (1958) — based on a novel by Heinrich Spoerl
• Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)
• The Fair (1960)
• The Last Witness (1960) — based on a book by Maximilian Vernberg
• The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (co-director:  [de], 1962) — based on Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley
•  [de] (1963) — based on Brecht's Threepenny Opera
• Destination Death (1964)
•  [de] (1964) — based on a story by  [de]
•  [de] (1966) — based on a play by Charles Rudolph
•  [de] (1968)
• Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
• Jailbreak in Hamburg (1971)
•  [de] (1978)

Television

• Die Rebellion (1962, TV film) — based on the novel Rebellion by Joseph Roth
•  [de] (1966, TV film)
• Die Klasse (1968, TV film) — based on a novel by Hermann Ungar
• Die Gartenlaube (1970, TV film) — based on a play by Hermann Ungar
• Der Kommissar: Messer im Rücken (1970, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: ...wie die Wölfe (1970, TV series episode)
•  [de] (1970, TV series, 5 episodes)
• Die Person (1970, TV film) — based on a story by  [de]
• Der Kommissar: Besuch bei Alberti (1971, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Ende eines Tanzvergnügens (1971, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Die Anhalterin (1971, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Lisa Bassenges Mörder (1971, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Tod eines Ladenbesitzers (1971, TV series episode)
•  [de] (1971, TV miniseries) — based on The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
• Der Kommissar: Ein rätselhafter Mord (1971, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Die Tote im Park (1972, TV series episode)
•  [de] (1972, TV film) — based on a novel by Raoul Anderland
• Marya Sklodowska-Curie (1972, TV film) — biographical film about Marie Curie
• Der Kommissar: Das Komplott (1973, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Die Nacht, in der Basseck starb (1973, TV series episode)
• Der Kommissar: Ein Funken in der Kälte (1973, TV series episode)
• Nerze nachts am Straßenrand (1973, TV film) — based on a novel by  [de]
• Tatort: Tote brauchen keine Wohnung (1973, TV series episode)
• Ein fröhliches Dasein (1974, TV film) — screenplay by Robert Wolfgang Schnell
• Lehmanns Erzählungen (1975, TV film) — based on a story by Siegfried Lenz
• Schließfach 763 (1975, TV film) — screenplay by  [de]
•  [de] (1975, TV series, 13 episodes)
•  [de] (1975, TV miniseries) — based on Burning Daylight by Jack London
• Tatort:  [de] (1976, TV series episode)
• Um zwei Erfahrungen reicher (1976, TV film) — screenplay by Robert Wolfgang Schnell
• Prozeß Medusa (1976, TV film) — based on a novel by  [de]
• Tatort: Spätlese (1977, TV series episode)
• MS Franziska (1978, TV miniseries)
• Das verschollene Inka-Gold (1978, TV film) — based on a story by Jack London
• Feuerwasser (1978, TV film) — based on a play by Ulrich Becher
• Tatort:  [de] (1979, TV series episode)
• Iron Gustav (1979, TV miniseries) — based on the novel Iron Gustav by Hans Fallada
• Tatort: Schussfahrt (1980, TV series episode)
• Tatort:  [de] (1980, TV series episode)
• Die Pawlaks (1982, TV miniseries)
•  [de] (1983, TV series, 4 episodes)
• Satan ist auf Gottes Seite (1983, TV film) — based on a novel by Hans Herlin
• Tatort:  [de] (1984, TV series episode)
• Der Snob (1984, TV film) — based on a play by Carl Sternheim
• So ein Theater (1984, TV film)
•  [de] (1985, TV miniseries)

As screenwriter[]

• The Axe of Wandsbek (dir. Falk Harnack, 1951) — based on a novel by Arnold Zweig

As actor[]

• The Street Song (1931)
• Secret of the Blue Room (1932)
• Tannenberg (1932)
• Homecoming to Happiness (1933)
• Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933)
• The Hymn of Leuthen (1933)
• Stronger Than Regulations (1936)
• Susanne in the Bath (1936)
• Togger (1937)
• All Lies (1938)
• By a Silken Thread (1938)
• D III 88 (1939)
• Shoulder Arms (1939)
• Legion Condor (1939)
• Jud Süß (1940)
• Friedemann Bach (1941)
• Riding for Germany (1941)
• The Big Game (1942)

External links[]

• Wolfgang Staudte at IMDb
• Literature on Wolfgang Staudte