Enno Patalas
Enno Patalas (* October 15, 1929 in Quakenbruck ) is a German film historian and critic. From 1973 to 1994 he was director of the Munich Film Museum.
Life
Enno Patalas studied journalism and German in Münster. From 1957 to 1970 he was editor of the journal Film Critics.
Patalas certain very significant line of the journal. Influenced by the years of study he initially pursued a critique of ideology, as he later left the so-called aesthetic turned to.
From 1973 to 1994 he headed the Munich Film Museum. Here Patalas pioneered. On one hand, there were large retrospectives of directors, country or genre ( in original versions ), on the other hand, he set new standards in film restoration and reconstruction, especially of German silent films. Particularly great attention has been given the reconstructions of the films " Metropolis", "M" and "Die Nibelungen " (all from Fritz Lang).
In addition Patalas built on a film archive with several thousand titles. Collection focuses on international film classics, new German film, German silent film and Munich film history, such as films of Karl Valentin.
Another concern of Patalas was the accompaniment of silent films by competent musicians. Previously silent films were often presented with no or only very mediocre musical accompaniment, which only too often pushy pushed to the forefront. Patalas undertook regular pianist Alyosha Zimmermann for the piano accompaniment. Zimmermann soon developed into a specialist in the field of silent film music. He was looking for old scores and also composed his own musical accompaniment.
In addition to many reviews in film criticism, the time and Others Patalas also published (together with Ulrich Gregor ) 1963, a story of the film for the period until 1960. Later the work of Gregor was only by a band of the years 1960-1977 covers, updated. In addition, Patalas involved in monographs on Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
For the WDR television, he made cinematic essays on Jean Vigo, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Jean Renoir, Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg.
Even after his retirement led Patalas on behalf of various institutions some film restoration projects. He also wrote an almost - poignant book about Alfred Hitchcock (1999) and a reading version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis ( 2000). In 2005, a book was published with the title " South Sea Pictures" with materials and documents around the movie "Taboo " by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
Patalas is considered one of the most important film historian of Germany. He was married from 1962 until her death in 2002 with the film critic and Filmessayistin Frieda Grafe. Since 2002 Patalas serving a twelve -volume work output with collected works by Frieda Grafe.
Patalas lived in Munich since 1956.