Helga Krause

German film editor

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

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.^[1] 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).^[2]

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.^[3]

Filmography

Films

Films edited by Krause include:^[1]

1962: Freispruch mangels Beweises – director: Richard Groschopp
1963: Die Glatzkopfbande – director: Richard Groschopp
1963: Julia lebt – director: Frank Vogel [de]
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: DEFA 70 [de] (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: Sechse kommen durch die Welt [de] – director: Rainer Simon
1973 / 1990: Die Taube auf dem Dach – director: Iris Gusner
1974: Wahlverwandtschaften – director: Siegfried Kühn
1976: Das blaue Licht [de] – director: Iris Gusner
1977: Unterwegs nach Atlantis [de] – director: Siegfried Kühn
1978: Einer muß die Leiche sein [de] – director: Iris Gusner
1979: Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr [de] – director: Rainer Simon
1979: Blauvogel [de] – director: Ulrich Weiß
1980: Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78 – director: Siegfried Kühn
1983: Schwierig sich zu verloben [de] – director: Karl-Heinz Heymann
1984: Isabel auf der Treppe [de] – director: Hannelore Unterberg
1985: Ab heute erwachsen [de] – director: Gunther Scholz
1986: Der Junge mit dem großen schwarzen Hund [de] – director: Hannelore Unterberg
1987: Liane [de] – director: Erwin Stranka
1987: Der Schwur von Rabenhorst [de] – director: Hans Kratzert

Television films

1962: Die letzte Chance [de] (Motion pictures) – director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
1966: Hilmar Thate singt Dessau, Eisler, Hosalla (Documentary) – director: Ingrid Sander
1969: Krause und Krupp [de] (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: Frank Vogel [de]
1977: Auftrag für M & S (Motion pictures) – director: Peter Deutsch
1978: Amor holt sich nasse Füße (Motion pictures) – director: Hans Knötzsch
1981: Polizeiruf 110: Alptraum [de] (TV series) – director: Peter Vogel
1981: Schuleule Paula [de] (Children's film) – director: Brigitte Natusch
1983: Alfons Köhler (Motion pictures) – director: Peter Vogel

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Helga Krause". Filmportal. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "Helga Krause" (in German). Bonn: dreipunktdrei mediengesellschaft mbH. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
^ "Die Taube auf dem Dach" (in German). DEFA. Retrieved 7 March 2021.