Erich Kettelhut
Erich Kettelhut ( born November 1, 1893 in Berlin, † March 13, 1979 in Hamburg ) was a German scenes and stage designer.
He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter at the Städtische Oper Berlin and worked among others in Aachen. In 1919 he began working as a film production company May- art director for Joe Mays. Together with Martin Jacoby -Boy and Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht, two colleagues with whom he often collaborated later, he designed there, the buildings for the exoticising eight-part epic film series The mistress of the world (1919) and both parts of The Indian Tomb ( 1921). In the 1920s Kettelhut worked for Fritz Lang, who was employed by May as a screenwriter. The huge buildings of Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Die Nibelungen, Metropolis and FP1 does not respond were played a major role from him.
Kettelhut worked at the German Film Academy in Babelsberg as a lecturer. He was awarded the 1968 Film Award. His tomb is located in the main cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg.