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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. After his retirement he lived in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and had three children.
Kurt Maetzig war ein deutscher Filmregisseur. Zu seinen bekanntesten Filmen zählen Ehe im Schatten, die zweiteilige Biografie Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse und Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse sowie Das Kaninchen bin ich. Er prägte maßgeblich den Film der DDR. Zudem war er Mitbegründer, Mitlizenzträger und ...
Sep 2, 2012 · Sept. 1, 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...
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). He was married to Yvonne Merin, Bärbel and Marion Keller. He died on 8 August 2012 in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- January 25, 1911
- Kurt Maetzig
- August 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 · Kurt Maetzig, film director: born Berlin 25 January 1911; three children. Died Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg 8 August 2012.
A stalwart of the East German film industry, Maetzig was an influential – and occasionally controversial – director who made such films as Ehe im Schatten (1947), Der Buntkarierten (1949), Rat der Götter (1950), the two part biopic of Ernst Thaelmann (1954-55), Der schweigende Stern (1960) and Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965).
Maetzig directed more than 20 feature films before retiring in 1975. His first feature film Ehe im Schatten , the first film that was shown in all four occupied zones of Germany, reached over 10 million people and gained worldwide acclaim.
