Dietrich Lohmann

Dietrich Lohmann, B.V.K. (German Society of Cinematographers) (9 March 1943 – 13 November 1997) was a German cinematographer.

He was born in Schnepfenthal, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany. He learned at Staatliche Fachschule für Optik und Fototechnik in Berlin. After graduated he entered in Olympia-Film in Munich and worked with Thomas Mauch, and he became a key cinematographer of the New German Cinema and prominence for his collaboration with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

He went to the US in 1988, and photographed Hollywood films such as The Innocent, Color of Night, A Couch in New York, The Peacemaker and Deep Impact.

He won German Film Awards in 1970, and American Society of Cinematographers Awards in 1989.

On November 13, 1997, Lohmann died from leukemia, aged 54.

Filmography

• Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) camera assistant
• Cardillac (1969)
• Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
• Katzelmacher (1969)
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
• The American Soldier (1970)
• Rio das Mortes (1971)
• de (1971)
• The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
• Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (1972-1973) TV series
• Effi Briest (1972)
• Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)
• Karl May (1974)
• Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
• Germany in Autumn (1978)
• Kassbach – Ein Porträt (1979)
• The Tailor from Ulm (1979)
• Put on Ice (1980)
• Tramps (1983)
• Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986)
• The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
• War and Remembrance (1989) TV miniseries, 1 episode
• The Rose and the Jackal (1990) TV movie
• Wedlock (1991)
• Ted & Venus (1991) TV movie
• Knight Moves (1992)
• Salt on Our Skin (1992)
• The Innocent (1993)
• Me and the Kid (1993)
• Color of Night (1994)
• A Couch in New York (1996)
• The Way We Are (1997)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Deep Impact (1998)

External links

• Dietrich Lohmann at the Internet Movie Database
• cinematographers.nl profile