Günther Anders (cinematographer)
Günther Anders ( born November 8, 1908 in Berlin, † 16 September 1977 in Munich) was a German cinematographer.
Life
The son of the merchant Georg Anders, manager of film production Eiko and later Commercial Director of the Ufa, already got about 1918 children's roles in silent films.
After finishing school in 1922 and an apprenticeship with the photographic department of Ufa, he received an education at the State University of photo technology in Munich. There followed years assistant under Carl Hoffmann, Karl Freund and Eugen Schüfftan. In 1934 he led in a short film under Hoffman's first Director of the camera themselves.
After a few more short films Anders counted from 1937 to the first set of Cinematographers in the Third Reich. He stood with several unique propaganda films such request concert and the anti - Polish production return behind the camera. He worked mainly with the directors Karl Ritter and Gustav Ucicky. In the winter of 1944/45, he filmed the final unfinished large-scale production of the period, entitled Life goes on.
In 1947 he began with the returnees Drama Between yesterday and tomorrow his postwar activities. Unlike the characters of the movie miracle of the 1950s has received numerous tasks as a cameraman, mostly in Austria. In 1965 he managed the feat Attila Hörbiger and Paul Hörbiger to bring for the staged by him film adaptation of the play King of the Alps and the Misanthrope together in front of the camera.
Günther Anders was married in second marriage with the costume designer Charlotte Flemming.