Karl-Heinz Kaesbach

After 1945 Kaesbach worked in Tyrol, Baden-Baden and Munich as a journalist, also as the leading press and advertising man at the Peter-Ostermayr-Filmproduktion company and the Bavaria-Filmkunst AG. Starting in 1961, he became the PR director at the Droemer Knaur publishing house. At the end of his career, he worked as Secretary General for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Film- und Fernsehforschung and was also involved in the planning for the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich. This manageably-sized collection, which Kaesbach gave to the Kinemathek in 1988, consists of an album with press clippings on the film ‘Christina’ (Ger, 1953, directed by Fritz Eichler), in which Kinz also played a role, as well as several photos from and related to this film. In addition, it contains scripts for Peter Ostermayr film productions – also some that were cut. They include productions created as Ludwig Ganghofer adaptations such as ‘Die Alm an der Grenze’ (FRG, 1951, directed by Franz Antel, Walter Janssen) and ‘Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald’ (FRG, 1950, directed by Rudolf Schündler), but also a script for ‘Beates Flitterwoche’ (Ger, 1940, directed by Paul May), based on Gabriele von Sazenhofen’s novel “Muckenreiters Flitterwochen”, and ‘Die schöne Tölzerin’ (FRG, 1952, directed by Richard Häußler) based on a historical novel by Karl Weinberger, directed by Richard Häußler) based on a historical novel by Karl Weinberger. (Text: Rolf Aurich)