Rolf Zehetbauer
(Production Designer)
Born in Munich in 1929, Rolf Zehetbauer worked as a production design assistant in the Bavaria Film Studios. He trained at Munich's School for Applied Art and, beginning in 1952, he worked as a freelance production designer for over 80 feature films. Since 1970, as Bavaria Film Studios' head production designer, Zehetbauer was responsible for all of the major international productions being made in Geiselgasteig.
Zehetbauer has received numerous national and international awards, including an Academy Award for Best Individual Artistic Achievement in 1972 for CABARET. Zehetbauer became the first German to win an Oscar since Emil Jannings in 1929. Other awards include the German Film Prize in Gold in 1958 for NACHTS, WENN DER TEUFEL KAM, the British Film & Television Award for his work as production designer on CABARET, the German Film Prize in 1978 for DESPAIR, the Order (1st Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984, the German Film Prize in 1985 for THE NEVER-ENDING STORY, the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1988, and the "Munich Shines" Medal in 1989.
Zehetbauer worked as art director on international productions in Bavaria Studios including, SAD SCHLANGENEI, directed by Ingmar Bergman, DESPAIR, VERONIKA VOSS, and LILI MARLEEN, all directed by R.W. Fassbinder, among others.
FILMOGRAPHY (selected)
1954 CANARIS
1958 NACHTS, WENN DER TEUFEL KAM
1967 RAUMSCHIFF ORION (TV)
1973 THE SERPENT'S EGG
1979 THE BOAT (DAS BOOT)
1981 LILI MARLEEN
1982 DIE SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS
1983 THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
1987 ÖDIPUSSI
1993 THE NEVER-ENDING STORY III
1994 BROTHER OF SLEEP (SCHLAFES BRUDER)
Last Modified 05-September-1996
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