Walter Wischniewsky

Walter Wischniewsky (16 September 1912 – 1 February 1995) was a German film editor who worked on over a hundred productions during his career. Wischniewsky also sometimes worked as an assistant director. Wischniewsky began his career during the Nazi era, but most productions he worked on were post-Second World War. He edited several rubble films, including The Berliner (1948).^[1] During the 1950s and 1960s he became one of the mainstays of German commercial cinema, working on the long-running Edgar Wallace and Karl May series. Wischniewsky edited Fritz Lang's Indian-shot The Indian Tomb and The Tiger of Eschnapur (both 1959).^[2]

Walter Wischniewsky
Born	16 September 1912 Spandau, Brandenburg German Empire
Died	1 February 1995 (1995-03) (aged 82) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Editor
Years active	1936–1966

Selected filmography

• The Empress's Favourite (1936)
• Talking About Jacqueline (1937)
• Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
• The Rothschilds (1940)
• Annelie (1941)
• 5 June (1942)
• Young Hearts (1944)
• Nora (1944)
• Das Mädchen Juanita (1945)
• King of Hearts (1947)
• Morituri (1948)
• The Berliner (1948)
• Anonymous Letters (1949)
• Martina (1949)
• Girls Behind Bars (1949)
• Nights on the Nile (1949)
• A Rare Lover (1950)
• Not Without Gisela (1951)
• The Sinful Border (1951)
• Cuba Cabana (1952)
• Holiday From Myself (1952)
• Homesick for You (1952)
• My Wife Is Being Stupid (1952)
• The Prince of Pappenheim (1952)
• Big City Secret (1952)
• Secretly Still and Quiet (1953)
• When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
• The Great Lola (1954)
• Clivia (1954)
• The Telephone Operator (1954)
• The Perfect Couple (1954)
• Ten on Every Finger (1954)
• Hotel Adlon (1955)
• Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs (1955)
• One Woman Is Not Enough? (1955)
• The Star of Rio (1955)
• The Bath in the Barn (1956)
• The Count of Luxemburg (1957)
• Different from You and Me (1957)
• Precocious Youth (1957)
• Confess, Doctor Corda (1958)
• Munchhausen in Africa (1958)
• Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love (1958)
• Marili (1959)
• The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
• The Indian Tomb (1959)
• And That on Monday Morning (1959)
• Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)
• The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
• Via Mala (1961)
• Doctor Sibelius (1962)
• The Terror of Doctor Mabuse [de] (1962)
• Breakfast in Bed (1963)
• Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)
• The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963)
• Breakfast in Bed (1963)
• The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)
• Freddy in the Wild West (1964)
• The Phantom of Soho (1964)
• The Seventh Victim (1964)
• The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
• The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
• Wild Kurdistan [de] (1965)
• Kingdom of the Silver Lion [de] (1965)

References

1. Shandley p.212
2. Langford p.83

Bibliography

• Langford, Michelle (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Intellect Books, 2012.
• Shandley, Robert. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2010.

External links

• Walter Wischniewsky at IMDb