Klaus Dudenhöfer
Klaus Dudenhöfer ( born September 19, 1924 in Dresden, † December 19, 2008 in Ahrensburg ) was a German cutter.
He started at the transmitter Dresden with children speaking roles. In the 1930s he worked as a photographer for a specific location. After graduation he became a volunteer in 1943 at the Terra film in Babelsberg near Cutter Helmuth Schönnenbeck. The first film on which he collaborated, was the famous brandy punch with Heinz Rühmann.
Dudenhöfer was then assistant editor before he completed military service in 1944. In 1947 he went to Hamburg and began first with Helmut Käutner newly established Camera film as an assistant editor until he still got a job as chief editor for the real film also recently founded the same year. From 1954 he cooperated mainly with director Helmut Käutner, with whom he produced twelve films. At times he also served as assistant director.
He made major contributions to several award -winning feature films such as The Devil's General and The Captain from Köpenick, but also to Bernhard Grzimek's documentary No Room for Wild Animals and Serengeti shall not die.
Since the late 1960s he was very active for television. He was also responsible for the popular series The Love Boat, and this Drombuschs section. In three episodes of the series Cliff Dexter as well as some cultural and industrial films he also acted as a director.
Since the early 1990s he worked together especially with director Christian Görlitz. In 2002 he received an honorary prize of the Forum for film editing and montage art film. The last section of a feature film, he led 2008 meat is my vegetables through. 11 January 2009 in an obituary was taken from " Hamburgers evening paper " that Klaus Dudenhöfer, certainly one of the longest-serving editor of Germany, a few days before Christmas 2008 passed away unexpectedly.