Hans Ertl (cameraman)
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Hans Ertl was a German mountaineer and cinematographer.
He was a camera man during the Nazi era, also known as "Hitler's photographer". After the war he resettled in Bolivia and became a farmer. He did some filming in Bolivia but ceased after his film and tractor fell through a wooden bridge. He was the father of Marxist guerrilla Monika Ertl
and supposedly a lover of Leni Riefenstahl
. Though he would never return to Germany, days before his death he asked his daughter to send him a bag of German soil. Hans died in 2000, he was buried on his farm which is now a museum.
He was a camera man during the Nazi era, also known as "Hitler's photographer". After the war he resettled in Bolivia and became a farmer. He did some filming in Bolivia but ceased after his film and tractor fell through a wooden bridge. He was the father of Marxist guerrilla Monika Ertl
Monika Ertl
Monika Ertl , the daughter of the camera man Hans Ertl, was a member of the armed political underground movement in Bolivia.-Biography:...
and supposedly a lover of Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
. Though he would never return to Germany, days before his death he asked his daughter to send him a bag of German soil. Hans died in 2000, he was buried on his farm which is now a museum.
Famous ascents
- 1930 First ascent of the KönigspitzeKönigspitzeThe Königspitze is a mountain in the Ortler Alps on the border between South Tyrol and the Province of Sondrio, Italy....
north face - 1931 First ascent of the OrtlerOrtlerOrtler is, at above sea level, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps outside the Bernina Range. It is the main peak of the Ortler Range. It is the highest point of the Southern Limestone Alps, of the Italian province of South Tyrol, of Tyrol overall, and, until 1919, of the Austrian-Hungarian...
north face - 1934 First ascent of Sia KangriSia KangriSia Kangri is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh in the Karakoram. Its summit is on the Tibet and Pakistan border. It is the 63rd highest mountain in the world, and the 25th highest in Pakistan. The peak is on the watershed between the Indus River basin and the Tarim Basin...
- 1950 First solo-climb of IllimaniIllimaniIllimani is the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real of western Bolivia. It lies just south of La Paz at the eastern edge of the Altiplano. It is the second highest peak in Bolivia, after Nevado Sajama, and the eighteenth highest peak in South America...
South, first ascent of Illimani North - 1951 Second ascent of IllampuIllampuIllampú is the fourth highest mountain in Bolivia. It is located in the northern section of the Cordillera Real, part of the Andes, east of Lake Titicaca. It lies just north of the slightly higher Ancohuma, near the town of Sorata...
- 1953 Camp 5 (6900 m) on Nanga Parbat, where he took the famous pictures of Herman Buhl returning from his solo first ascent
Works
- 1932 Assistant at Arnold FanckArnold FanckArnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....
s S.O.S. Eisberg - 1934 Assistant at Arnold Fancks Der ewige Traum
- 1936 Main cameraman at Leni RiefenstahlLeni RiefenstahlHelene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
s OlympiaOlympia (1938 film)Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...
- Teil 1: Fest der Völker, Teil 2: Fest der Schönheit - 1938 cameraman at Luis TrenkerLuis TrenkerLuis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...
s Liebesgrüße aus dem Engadin - 1939 cameraman at Arnold Fancks Ein Robinson
- 1939 Assistant at BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit mit dem Film Glaube und Schönheit
External links
- Short biography at the Herrligkoffer institute (in German)
- Times article