Konrad Petzold

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Konrad Petzold
Born	April 26 1930 Radebeul, Saxony, Germany
Died	November 12, 1999(1999-11-12) (aged 69) Kleinmachnow
Nationality	German
Occupation	Film Director

Konrad Petzold (26 April 1930, Radebeul - 12 November 1999, Kleinmachnow) was a German film director, writer, and actor.^[1]

Biography

Born the youngest of six children in a poor family, he was the son of a worker and a housewife. After an internship at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), he shot his first feature film in Czechoslovakia in 1955, a comedy called The Fools Among Us. His next film was an adventure film, A Dog in the Marsh, which brought him national recognition, especially among young people.^{[citation needed]} However his next movie The Dress (1961), based on "The Emperor's New Clothes", was accused of hidden political satire, and he was temporarily dismissed from the profession.^[2]

Petzold, along with other directors such as Konrad Wolf, Heiner Carow, and Egon Günther, were part of the so-called "second DEFA generation" born in East Germany between 1920 and 1930.^[3]

In 1969, Petzold shot the first of five "american-indian films" (. After Gottfried Kolditz died suddenly on an aneurysm on 15 June 1982, Petzold directed his film Der Scout (The Scout), released 1983.^[4]

Selected filmography

Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf (1956)
Abenteuer in Bamsdorf (1958)
Natürlich die Nelli (1959)
Der Moorhund (1960)
The Dress (co-director: Egon Günther, 1961)
Die Jagd nach dem Stiefel (1962)
Das Lied vom Trompeter (1964)
Alfons Zitterbacke (1966)
Weiße Wölfe (1969)

References

^ "Konrad-Petzold-Archiv". archiv.adk.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-23.
^ Hochscherf, Tobias; Laucht, Christoph; Plowman, Andrew (2010-12-01). Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War. Berghahn Books. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-84545-646-7.
^ Elsaesser, Thomas (2005). European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 340–341. ISBN 978-90-5356-594-0.
^ Powell, Larson; Shandley, Robert (2016-08-01). German Television: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. Berghahn Books. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-78533-113-8.