Slatan Dudow
Slatan Theodor Dudow ( Bulgarian Златан Дудов; born January 30, 1903 in Zaribrod; † July 12, 1963 in Fürstenwalde / Spree, GDR ) was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter who was mainly active in Germany.
Life and work
Dudow, son of a railway worker, came in the fall of 1922, to Berlin to study architecture. In 1923, he took up teaching at Emanuel Reichers drama school and studied from 1925 as a student theater studies at Max Herrmann. Attending, in Fritz Lang's Metropolis as well as in theater productions of Leopold Jessner and Juergen Fehling. From 1927 to 1928 he was member of the choir at the theater of Erwin Piscator.
In 1929 Dudow undertook on behalf of Herrmann's a job shadowing trip to Moscow, where he became acquainted with Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht. Brecht took him into his working group on, and Dudow staged in 1929 for the "Theater of the workers ' Anna Gmeiner's army without heroes and Brecht's The Measure. In the same year he was assistant director on various documentary agitation strips, including Phil Jutzis hundred thousand red flags. His first independent design was the 1930 documentary short film How the Berlin workers' lives for the Communist Prometheus film company. Dudow described in the part with a hidden camera filmed and authentic Zwangsdelogierung a Berlin working class family.
Height of his career was the proletarian propaganda film Kuhle Wampe or: Who owns the world? (1932 ), which illustrates the miserable living conditions of workers in the period of the Great Depression. This is the most important communist- proletarian film in Germany. The film censorship released him only the third attempt for public display. In March 1933, he was banned after the seizure of power by the Nazis again. Dudow emigrated to France, where in 1934 he started the unannounced yet in Germany movie Bubble completed it.
In October 1937, he led, together with actors exile in Paris at the Brecht play The guns of the woman Carrar with Helene Weigel. After the expulsion from France he found his wife and daughter his exile in Switzerland. Already in France his stage play was created, the coward, in Switzerland, he wrote The gullible Thomas, The fool's paradise and end of the world, which he published after the war under the pseudonym " Stefan Brodwin ". The coward came in 1948 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under the direction of Ernst Legal on 57 ideas.
In 1948 he returned to East Germany and there was one day with the films Our bread (1949 ), women's lives (1952) and confusion of love (1959 ) the most important directors of the early days of the DEFA. For his 60th birthday he was by the Ministry of Culture ( GDR ) with the title of professor geehrt.Er died during the filming of the movie Christine from injuries sustained in a car accident.