Alice Ludwig (or Alice Ludwig-Rasch) (15 January 1910 – 2 November 1973) was a German

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

who worked on many films and television series between 1932 and 1973. After first entering the film industry during the

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, she worked continuously during the

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. Following the

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she edited ''

Marriage in the Shadows ''Marriage in the Shadows'' (German: ''Ehe im Schatten'') is 1947 German melodrama film directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat and Alfred Balthoff. It was produced in the Soviet zone in what later became East Germany ...

'' (1947), an anti-Nazi work of the

rubble film Rubble film () was an aesthetic choice for those films made directly after World War II dealing with the impact of the battles in the countries at the center of the war. The style was mostly used by filmmakers in the rebuilding film industries o ...

period.Shandley p.216 Much of her later film work was in popular

melodramas A melodrama is a dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodrama is "an exaggerated version of drama". Melodramas typically concentrate on dial ...

such as ''

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'' (1950). From the 1960s onwards she switched to working in television, her final employment being the editing over fifty episodes of the crime series ''

Hamburg Transit ''Hamburg Transit'' is a German crime television series, first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974.Ship Without a Harbour ''Ship Without a Harbour'' () is a 1932 German thriller film directed by Harry Piel and starring Piel, Trude Berliner and Charly Berger.Grange p.400 The film was made at the Staaken Studios and at the Berlin Wintergarten. The film's sets were de ...

'' (1932) * '' Spell of the Looking Glass'' (1932) * ''

Hans Westmar ''Hans Westmar'' (full title: ' "Hans Westmar. One of many. A German Fate from the Year 1929") was the last of an unofficial trilogy of films produced by the Nazis shortly after coming to power in January 1933, celebrating their '' Kampfzeit'' � ...

'' (1933) * '' Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933) * '' Last Stop'' (1935) * '' The Valley of Love'' (1935) * '' The Muzzle'' (1938) * ''

Midsummer Night's Fire ''Midsummer Night's Fire'' or ''St. John's Fire'' () is a 1939 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Anna Dammann, Ernst von Klipstein, and Gertrud Meyen. The film is based on the play '' Fires of St. John'' by Herma ...

'' (1939) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * ''

Central Rio ''Central Rio'' (German: ''Zentrale Rio'') is a 1939 German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Leny Marenbach, Camilla Horn and Ita Rina.Noack p.157 The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. It was shot at th ...

'' (1939) * ''

Vienna Tales ''Vienna Tales'' () is a 1940 musical comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Marte Harell, Olly Holzmann, and Hans Moser. The film is set in Imperial Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. The film's sets were designe ...

'' (1940) * ''

Roses in Tyrol ''Roses in Tyrol'' () is a 1940 German musical comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Hans Moser, Marte Harell, and Johannes Heesters. It is based on the 1891 operetta '' The Bird Seller'' by Carl Zeller, which has been turned ...

'' (1940) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''

A Man With Principles? ''A Man With Principles?'' () is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Hans Söhnker, Elfie Mayerhofer, and Sigrid Becker. Synopsis A young female chemist moves to Hamburg for research where she encounters a hands ...

'' (1943) * '' The Eternal Tone'' (1943) * ''

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original literary source for ' was ...

'' (1946) * ''

'' (1947) * ''

Chemistry and Love ''Chemistry and Love'' () is a 1948 East German comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hans Nielsen, Tilly Lauenstein and Ralph Lothar. It is an anti-capitalist satire inspired by a stage play by the communist writer Béla Ba ...

'' (1948) * '' The Last Night'' (1949) * ''

Second Hand Destiny ''Second Hand Destiny'' () is a 1949 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and starring Erich Ponto, Heinz Klevenow and Marianne Hoppe. It is sometimes considered a film noir.Spicer p. 460 At the time the director Staudte was mostly ...

'' (1949) * ''

'' (1950) * ''

Third from the Right ''Third from the Right'' () is a 1950 West German musical crime film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Vera Molnar, Robert Lindner and Peter van Eyck. It was made by the Hamburg-based company Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in the ...

'' (1950) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''

The Man in Search of Himself ''The Man in Search of Himself'' () is a 1950 West German comedy crime film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Vera Molnar, Wolf Albach-Retty and Petra Trautmann. The film was made at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets wer ...

'' (1950) * '' The Allure of Danger'' (1950) * ''

Harbour Melody ''Harbour Melody'' () is a 1950 West German crime film directed by Hans Müller and starring Kirsten Heiberg, Paul Henckels and Catja Görna. It is part of a group of postwar German film noirs.Spicer p.109 Plot A gang of criminals plan a ware ...

'' (1950) * ''

Maya of the Seven Veils ''Maya of the Seven Veils'' or ''The Veiled Lady'' () is a 1951 West German musical film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Maria Litto, Willy Fritsch and Rudolf Platte.Bock & Bergfelder p. 225 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamb ...

'' (1951) * ''

Woe to Him Who Loves ''Woe to Him Who Loves'' (German: ''Weh dem, der liebt!'') is a 1951 West German musical comedy film directed by Sándor Szlatinay and starring Gretl Schörg, Wolf Albach-Retty and Hubert von Meyerinck. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hambu ...

'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1951) * ''

Toxi ''Toxi'' is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Elfie Fiegert, Paul Bildt and Johanna Hofer. The film's release came as the first wave of children born to black Allied servicemen and white German mothers ...

'' (1952) * '' Dreaming Lips'' (1953) * '' Money from the Air'' (1954) * ''

The False Adam ''The False Adam'' () is a 1955 West German comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Waltraut Haas, Rudolf Platte and Doris Kirchner. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It wa ...

'' (1955) * ''

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'' (1955) * ''

Bandits of the Autobahn ''Bandits of the Autobahn'' () is a 1955 West German crime film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Hans Christian Blech and Paul Hörbiger.Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations p.140 It was sho ...

'' (1955) * '' The Heart of St. Pauli'' (1957) * ''

Thirteen Old Donkeys ''Thirteen Old Donkeys'' () is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Hans Albers, Marianne Hoppe and Karin Dor.Bock & Bergfelder p. It was one of the final performances of the veteran star Albers. It was made at the Wa ...

'' (1958) * ''

Doctor Crippen Lives ''Doctor Crippen Lives'' () is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Elisabeth Müller, Peter van Eyck and Fritz Tillmann.Davidson & Hake p.237 It was made at the Wandsbek Studios of Real Film in Hamburg. The film's ...

'' (1958) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) * ''

Heart Without Mercy ''Heart Without Mercy'' () is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Barbara Rütting, Hansjörg Felmy and Werner Hinz.Hake p.117 It was made at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by ...

'' (1958) * ''

The Night Before the Premiere ''The Night Before the Premiere'' () is a 1959 West German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Theo Lingen and Wolfgang Lukschy.Koepnick, Lutz Peter. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imag ...

'' (1959) * ''

Mrs. Warren's Profession ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as ''Plays Unpleasant'' in 1898, alongside ''The Philanderer'' and '' Widowers' H ...

'' (1960) * '' Pension Schöller'' (1960) * ''

The Happy Years of the Thorwalds ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds'' (German: ''Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds'') is a 1962 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and , starring Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy and Dietmar Schönherr.Bock & Bergfelder p.40 It ...

'' (1962)

References

Bibliography

* Shandley, Robert. ''Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich''. Temple University Press, 2010

External links

* 1910 births 1973 deaths German film editors Mass media people from Berlin German women film editors {{Germany-film-bio-stub