Willi Sohm
Willi Sohm ( born August 18, 1913 in Neufelden, † 1 February 1974 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cinematographer.
He was educated at the technical-industrial establishment in Mödling to engineer and then worked as a camera assistant in the UFA and the Terra. His bosses were particularly Bruno Mondi and Willy Winterstein.
After the war Sohm was responsible for numerous German - Austrian musical comedies as a cameraman in the 1950s. He worked there along with various directors such as Géza von Cziffra Bolváry and Géza von. When his best performances, the opera and operetta films of Don Giovanni apply ( Don Juan, 1955) and Gasparone (1956). Except for feature films Sohm was used in documentary films. From 1961 to 1963 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna imaging in the first seminar for film and television at an Austrian Art Academy, which was established by Hans Winge and him as the first media art classes at an Austrian Academy of Fine Arts. With resolution of this seminar he taught from 1964 camera at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, today the Vienna Film Academy. He is the father of Wolfgang Sohm, an Austrian concept artist.