Johannes Ott Explained

Johannes Ott
Birth Date:	19 September 1919
Birth Place:	Berlin, Germany
Death Date:	24 April 1995
Death Place:	Berlin, Germany
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1954 - 1974 (film & TV)

Johannes Ott (1919–1995) was a German art director known for his work in the country's film industry. In the early stages of his career he collaborated frequently with the veteran set designer Erich Kettelhut.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Prisoners of Love (1954)
• A Love Story (1954)
• Three Days Confined to Barracks (1955)
• Children, Mother, and the General (1955)
• Three Girls from the Rhine (1955)
• One Woman Is Not Enough? (1955)
• Das Mädchen Marion (1956)
• Night Nurse Ingeborg (1958)
• The Muzzle (1958)
• The Man Who Sold Himself (1959)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
• Until Money Departs You (1960)
• Storm in a Water Glass (1960)
• Girl from Hong Kong (1961)
• The Post Has Gone (1962)
• Life Begins at Eight (1962)
• Freddy and the Song of the South Pacific (1963)
• The Lightship (1963)
• The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963)
• If You Go Swimming in Tenerife (1964)
• The Body in the Thames (1971)

Bibliography

• David Kalat. The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels. McFarland, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Kalat p.129