Helga Krause Explained

Helga Krause (1 September 1935 in Dresden – 17 January 1989 in Teltow) was a German film editor.

Life and work

Helga Krause worked from 1953 to 1987 as an editor for the film company DEFA in the former German Democratic Republic. First, she worked from 1953 to 1956 in numerous pioneering monthly newsreels, which were shown in cinemas before the main feature. In 1962, she edited her first DEFA feature film, Freispruch mangels Beweises. In total, she was responsible for the editing of almost 40 feature films in her career including some television films on the German television network (DFF).^[1]

The most important works in which Krause was involved include the literary film adaptation of Der teilte Himmel (1964, director: Konrad Wolf), as well as the films forbidden by the state censorship Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965, Director: Kurt Maetzig) and Denk bloß nicht, ich heule (1965, Director: Frank Vogel). In addition to Vogel, with whom she made four feature films, Helga Krause also worked several times with Siegfried Kühn (five films), Richard Groschopp (three films) and Iris Gusner (three films). Also Gusner's debut film, Die Taube auf dem Dach, was banned and destroyed except for one working copy. The reconstructed film only had its world premiere in 1990, a year after Helga Krause died.^[2]

Filmography

Films

Films edited by Krause include:

• 1962: Freispruch mangels Beweises – director: Richard Groschopp
• 1963: Die Glatzkopfbande – director: Richard Groschopp
• 1963: Julia lebt – director:
• 1964: Der geteilte Himmel – director: Konrad Wolf
• 1965 / 1990: Das Kaninchen bin ich – director: Kurt Maetzig
• 1965 / 1990: Denk bloß nicht, ich heule – director: Frank Vogel
• 1967: (30-min. Experimentalfilm) – director: Werner Bergmann
• 1967: Chingachgook, die große Schlange – director: Richard Groschopp
• 1968: Spur des Falken – director: Gottfried Kolditz
• 1969: Das siebente Jahr – director: Frank Vogel
• 1970: Im Spannungsfeld – director: Siegfried Kühn
• 1971: Zeit der Störche – director: Siegfried Kühn
• 1972: – director: Rainer Simon
• 1973 / 1990: Die Taube auf dem Dach – director: Iris Gusner
• 1974: Wahlverwandtschaften – director: Siegfried Kühn
• 1976: – director: Iris Gusner
• 1977: – director: Siegfried Kühn
• 1978: – director: Iris Gusner
• 1979: – director: Rainer Simon
• 1979: – director: Ulrich Weiß
• 1980: Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78 – director: Siegfried Kühn
• 1983: – director: Karl-Heinz Heymann
• 1984: – director: Hannelore Unterberg
• 1985: – director: Gunther Scholz
• 1986: – director: Hannelore Unterberg
• 1987: – director: Erwin Stranka
• 1987: – director: Hans Kratzert

Television films

• 1962: (Motion pictures) – director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
• 1966: Hilmar Thate singt Dessau, Eisler, Hosalla (Documentary) – director: Ingrid Sander
• 1969: (five-part feature film, part 5: "Die Zeit der Fundamente") – together with Renate Müller / director: Horst E. Brandtf
• 1970: Der Mörder sitzt im Wembley-Stadion (Two-part feature film) – director: Gerhard Respondek
• 1972: Ein Mann, der sterben muß (Motion pictures) – director: Peter Hagen
• 1972: Der Mann und das Mädchen (Motion pictures) – director:
• 1977: Auftrag für M & S (Motion pictures) – director: Peter Deutsch
• 1978: Amor holt sich nasse Füße (Motion pictures) – director: Hans Knötzsch
• 1981: (TV series) – director: Peter Vogel
• 1981: (Children's film) – director: Brigitte Natusch
• 1983: Alfons Köhler (Motion pictures) – director: Peter Vogel

References

1. Web site: Helga Krause. dreipunktdrei mediengesellschaft mbH. de. 7 March 2021. Bonn.
2. Web site: Die Taube auf dem Dach. DEFA. de. 7 March 2021.

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