Kurt Maetzig was born on January 25, 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for First Spaceship on Venus (1960), The Rabbit Is Me (1965) and Marriage in the Shadows (1947). He was married to Bärbel and Yvonne Merin. He died on August 8, 2012 in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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In 1974 he became vice president of The International Federation of Film Societies. In 1979, three years after he retired from directing, he was elected lifetime honorary president.
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He was the first president of the newly founded Film Academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg where he was a professor of film directing.
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He was member of the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic.
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His feature film "Ehe im Schatten" (1947) ["Marriage in the Shadows"] became the first feature film to be shown in all four of the occupied German zones.
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He was a Professor of film directing at the Film Academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
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He became the Artistic Director of DEFA in 1946.
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He was a member of the filmaktiv involved in the founding of DEFA.
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In 1944 he joined the underground German Communist Party.
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During the Nazi era, he was able to remain involved in the motion picture industry by getting jobs with various firms in Berlin as an expert in film technology and photochemistry.
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After completing his studies in Munich, and with his opportunities in the Nazi controlled film industry limited, he was able to increase his expertise by working in his father's film laboratory.
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His father owned a film laboratory that produced release prints.
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His mother was from a wealthy family of tea merchants from Hamburg and Denmark.
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In 1934 his career in the film industry was limited by the Nazi Reichfilmkammer because his mother was Jewish.
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In 1932 he began a series of internships with filmmakers.
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He studied Chemistry, Business Administration and Political Economics. He also attended lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1983
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