Gottfried Kolditz (14 December 1922 – 15 June 1982Gottfried Kolditz, The Internet Movie database
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Biography

Kolditz was born in Goldbach-Altenbach to a farm family. Between 1945 and 1949 he studied

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at the

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, and took a course of direction and acting in 1947–1949 at the Leipzig Higher School of Music and Drama. In the early 1950s he worked as an actor and director at various theaters in

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. After 1955 he worked at

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, the East German film studio, in a wide range of genres: fairy tales ("Ms. Blizzard," from the story of the same name by the

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), adventure films, musicals, and science fiction ("Signals" and "B dust of stars" on themes similar to ''2001: A Space Odyssey''). He wrote scripts both for himself and for other directors. He was widely acclaimed for his Red Westerns with actor

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: "Next Falcon", "Apache" and "Ulzana." He died in 1982 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia while preparing the shooting of a new film from his script, "Chief White Feather," which was later completed by another director.

Selected filmography as director

*'' Mit Oswald in der Oper'' (1956) *'' Von nun ab, Herr Kunze'' (1956) *'' Tanz in der Galerie'' (1957) *''Der junge Engländer'' (1958) *''Simplon-Tunnel'' (1959) *'' Weißes Blut'' (1959) *''

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'' (1960) *''Die goldene Jurte'' (1961) *'' Snow White (1962 film), Snow White'' (1961) *'' Midnight Revue'' (1962) *''Frau Holle'' (1963) *'' Geliebte weiße Maus'' (1964) *'' Das Tal der sieben Monde'' (1966) *'' Spur des Falken'' (1968) *''Signale – Ein Weltraumabenteuer'' (1970) *''Apachen'' (1973) *''

Ulzana Ulzana ( – 1909, also known as Josanni, Jolsanie or Ozaní’ – ″Tanned buckskin″ or Bį-sópàn – ″Big Buckskin″), was a Tsokanende Apache war chief, brother of Chihuahua. Biography Both the brothers were loyal and warlike suppor ...

'' (1974) *''

In the Dust of the Stars ''In the Dust of the Stars'' (German: ''Im Staub der Sterne'', Romanian: ''Revoltă în cosmos'') is a 1976 East German science fiction film, co-produced with Romania and directed by Gottfried Kolditz. Some of the film's props were part of a 200 ...

'' (1976) *''Das Ding im Schloß'' (1979) Karsten Kruschel: ''Leim für die Venus.'' Der Science-Fiction-Film in der DDR, in: ''Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007'' (ed. Sascha Mamczak,

Wolfgang Jeschke Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction. Biography Jeschke was born in 1936 in D� ...

, pp. 803–888

Personal life

His son, Stefan Kolditz (born 1956), is a novelist and playwright.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolditz, Gottfried 1922 births 1982 deaths German male film actors German film directors German fantasy film directors German science fiction film directors Western (genre) film directors People from Haut-Rhin Male actors from Grand Est