Fritz Umgelter

Fritz Umgelter ( born August 18, 1922 in Stuttgart, † 9 May 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German film and television director. Prior to his directing career, he also worked as an actor and stage designer.

Life

Fritz Umgelter began as an actor at the Wiesbaden State Theater and participated in the Second World War. Then he studied philology in Strasbourg, Tübingen and Munich. He first worked as a stage designer in Tübingen, then as a theater director in Augsburg and Wiesbaden. In 1953, he received 31 years a position as Director at Hessischer Rundfunk, where he was Head of the Department from 1955 TV drama, entertainment and documents.

His colleague Walter Oehmichen he knew of Augsburg city theater, worked in Frankfurt as a director and led him to be there also active. Since no recording technology was available, Fritz Umgelter staged in the years 1953/54, eight live broadcasts of the Augsburg Puppet Theatre for the HR. As a freelance stage and television director, he worked in Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Munich and Vienna. He was a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts. His grave is located in the forest cemetery Stuttgart. His written heritage is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Work

Umgelter has directed six feature films. While this film directing credits were not particularly respected by critics, his directorial works and screenplays for television, for which he delivered more than one hundred works in the most varied in different genres, even perceived as a television events. Fritz Umgelter was a director in numerous crime scene sequences. In addition, he directed the elaborate and internationally acclaimed series The winter that was (1976 ) a summer on the intervention of German forced mercenaries in the American War of Independence. His last film was a consequence for the ZDF series The Love Boat (1981).

Filmography (selection)

Award

In 1967 he was awarded included fried potatos with the TV Film Award for Best Director.