Helga Krause
Helga Krause 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.The most important works in which Krause was involved include the literary film adaptation of Der teilte Himmel, as well as the films forbidden by the state censorship Das Kaninchen bin ich and Denk bloß nicht, ich heule. In addition to Vogel, with whom she made four feature films, Helga Krause also worked several times with Siegfried Kühn, Richard Groschopp and Iris Gusner. 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.
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: – 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: – director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
- 1966: Hilmar Thate singt Dessau, Eisler, Hosalla – director: Ingrid Sander
- 1969: – together with Renate Müller / director: Horst E. Brandtf
- 1970: Der Mörder sitzt im Wembley-Stadion – director: Gerhard Respondek
- 1972: Ein Mann, der sterben muß – director: Peter Hagen
- 1972: Der Mann und das Mädchen – director:
- 1977: Auftrag für M & S – director: Peter Deutsch
- 1978: Amor holt sich nasse Füße – director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1981: – director: Peter Vogel
- 1981: – director: Brigitte Natusch
- 1983: Alfons Köhler – director: Peter Vogel