Hans Wolff (director)
Hans Wolff ( born October 2, 1911 in Berlin, † June 1, 1979 ) was a German writer, editor, production manager, actor and film director.
Life
Hans Wolff was born the illegitimate son of Otto Wolff and a maid. On March 15, 1916 it adopted Anna ( who themselves could not have children ) and Otto Wolff. He received the surname Wolff and a year later a new name. Its also an adopted brother was Otto Wolff von Amerongen. Hans Wolff himself adopted a son who later gave him three grandchildren.
Hans Wolff studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Paris. In 1933 he received a practical education in the lab of Ufa From 1934 he worked as a cutter and was part of the team of the Willi Forst movie since 1936. In this role he was involved in several major films of Vienna and with Willi Forst.
Forestry enabled him, in his capacity as a producer in 1947 with The Councilor Geiger his first successful film director immediately. Soon after Wolff in The Singing House made his debut as an actor. In the 1950s he directed several more films, however, consistently found no special attention.
Wolff now changed for the production line, founded the production company Fono -Film GmbH and was erregendem Bernhard Wicki stir anti-war film involved in this way The bridge, also at the Lenz - adaptation The Lightship and Wolfgang Staudtes outsider Story lamb.