Solo Sunny, Wolf’s last feature film and a smash box-office hit, surprised audiences, who knew him as the director of films about war, peace and art this film, in contrast, colorfully depicted the longings and frustrations of contemporary East German young people at the end of the 1970s.įor over two decades, Konrad Wolf worked with director of photography Werner Bergmann, who photographed all Wolf’s films until 1976 (except the television production Der kleine Prinz). The film was banned and not released until 1971, after Wolf spent years trying to get it released. His next film, Sonnensucher, was more controversial, as it explored a complex cast of characters who found themselves in the GDR’s top-secret Wismut uranium mining district in the early 1950s. Konrad Wolf joined the DEFA Studios in 1955, where he directed two films about the Nazi period in Germany: Genesung and Lissy. Wolf had received East German citizenship in 1952 after completing his studies, he returned there to pursue a career as a director. While a student, Wolf met the Bulgarian scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein, with whom he later collaborated on the award-winning films Sterne (1959 Special Jury Prize, Cannes International Film Festival), Goya (1971 Special Prize, Moscow International Film Festival) and Der kleine Prinz. His diploma film was a musical comedy entitled Einmal ist keinmal. Gerassimov at the famous VGIK film school in Moscow. He was released from the military in 1946.įrom 1949 to 1955, Wolf studied with Mikhail Romm and Sergej A. Once in Berlin, Wolf organized lectures and discussions at the House of Cultures of the Soviet Union. He also recorded his time as a Russian soldier and officer in moving diaries, which were published in Germany in 2016. His war experiences became the basis for his acclaimed classics Ich war neunzehn and Mama, ich lebe. He worked as a translator in interrogations of German POWs and then as a Russian propaganda officer in Germany at the end of WWII. In December 1942, at the age of 17, Wolf enlisted in the Soviet Army. There Konrad and his brother Markus attended the German school, becoming citizens of the Soviet Union in 1936. Known for his antifascist activism, Friedrich Wolf had to leave Germany and go into exile in 1933 his family followed him in 1934 and they settled in Moscow. He was the son of Friedrich Wolf, a prominent German-Jewish physician and author. Konrad Wolf was born on October 20, 1925, in Hechingen, Germany.
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