Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner
Born	25 March 1908 Düsseldorf, Germany
Died	20 April 1980 (aged 72) Castellina in Chianti, Italy
Occupation	Film director, actor
Years active	1940–76

Helmut Käutner (born 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Italy) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany.

His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards.^[1] Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Cruiser Emden (1932, as actor; directed by Louis Ralph)
• Wibbel the Tailor (1939, as writer; directed by Viktor de Kowa)
• 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)
• Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944)
• Under the Bridges (1946)
• In Those Days (1947)
• Film ohne Titel (1948, as writer; directed by Rudolf Jugert)
• The Original Sin (1948)
• Royal Children (1950)
• The Orplid Mystery (1950)
• The Lost One (1951) as writer
• Weiße Schatten (1951)
• Nights on the Road (1952, as writer; directed by Rudolf Jugert)
• Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
• The Last Bridge (1954)
• Bildnis einer Unbekannten (1954)
• Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955)
• Des Teufels General (1955)
• Himmel ohne Sterne (1955)
• Ein Mädchen aus Flandern (1956)
• The Captain of 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)
• Lausbubengeschichten (1964)
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
• Hauser's Memory (1970, as actor; directed by Boris Sagal)
• Karl May (1974, as actor; directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
• Derrick – "Stiftungsfest" (1974); "Nur Aufregungen für Rohn" (1975, as actor); "Auf eigene Faust" (1976, as actor)

Literature

• Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – Unter den Brücken. 1944/45. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; ISBN 978-3-88842-033-7
• Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen. 1947. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; ISBN 978-3-88842-034-4

References

1. "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
2. "Awards for The Rest Is Silence at IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 6 January 2010.

Further reading

• Peter Cornelsen. Helmut Käutner. Seine Filme, sein Leben. München: Heyne 1980. ISBN 3-453-86027-6.
• Wolfgang Jacobsen & Hans-Helmut Prinzler: Käutner. Berlin: Wiss.-Verl. Spiess 1992. ISBN 3-89166-159-2.
• Thomas Koebner, Fabienne Liptay, Claudia Mehlinger & René Ruppert (eds.): Helmut Käutner. München: edition text + kritik 2008. ISBN 978-3-88377-943-0.
• Hans Dieter Schäfer. Moderne in Dritten Reich. Kultur der Intimität bei Oskar Loerke, Friedo Lampe und Helmut Käutner. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003; ISBN 3-515-08432-0.

External links

• Media related to Helmut Käutner at Wikimedia Commons
• Helmut Käutner at the Internet Movie Database