''Stage Fright'' or ''Lamp Fever'' (German: ''Lampenfieber'') is a 1960 West German

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directed by

Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ' ...

and starring Dunja Movar,

Bernhard Wicki Bernhard Wicki (28 October 1919 – 5 January 2000) was an Austrian actor and film director. Life and career Wicki studied in the city of Breslau such topics as art history, history and German literature. In 1938, he transferred to the d ...

and Antje Weisgerber.Bock & Bergfelder p.529 It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director Elisabeth Urbancic.

Cast

* Dunja Movar as Gitta Crusius *

as Rohrbach * Antje Weisgerber as Elsa Kaiser *

Gustav Knuth Gustav Knuth (7 July 1901 – 1 February 1987) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series '' Alle meine Tiere''. He was married to the actress Elisabeth Lennartz. Selected ...

as Herr Seipel * Anne Kersten as Frau Wehrhahn * Henry Vahl as Herr Körner *

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as Frau Seipel * Elke Sommer as Evelyne *

Claus Wilcke Claus Wilcke (born 12 August 1939, in Bremen) is a German actor who has played Americans in the German TV shows ''Percy Stuart'' and '' I.O.B. Spezialauftrag''. He has also dubbed many American actors including Elvis Presley and Michael Lando ...

as Bastian * Corinna Genest as Katja * Gitty Djamal as Elisabeth * Dieter Klein as Caspar *

Michael Hinz Michael Hinz (28 December 1939 – 6 November 2008) was a German actor. Life and career Hinz came from an acting family, his parents were Werner Hinz and Ehmi Bessel, both actors, as well as his brother Knut and half-sister Dinah. After g ...

as Peter * Inken Deter as Grete Seipel *

Helmut Förnbacher Helmut Förnbacher (born 26 January 1936) is a Swiss actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1959. He starred in the 1976 film '' The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner'', which ...

as Thomas *

Erna Sellmer Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (19 June 1905 – 13 May 1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series ''George'' about a St ...

as Kantinenwirtin Hochgesell *

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as Atze Müller *

Hans Schweikart Hans Schweikart (1 October 1895 – 1 December 1975) was a German film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1938 and 1968. He wrote for the film '' The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi'', which was entered into the 11 ...

as Intendant * Peter Striebeck as 1. Schauspielschüler *

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as 2. Schauspielschüler * Peter Kors as Schauspieler in Kernstadt * as Schauspieler in Kernstadt *

Werner Schwuchow Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raid ...

as Schauspieler in Kernstadt *

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as Schauspielerin in Kernstadt * Paul Bürks as himself *

Hans Clarin Hans Clarin (14 September 1929 – 28 August 2005) was a German actor. He became a well-known voice actor of characters in children audio plays, particularly the kobold ''Pumuckl'' (including its TV and cinematic film adaptations), the German voic ...

as himself *

August Everding August Everding (; 31 October 1928; Bottrop, Germany – 26 January 1999; Munich) was a German opera director and administrator. He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, where launching his career in the 1950s. He was a member of the R ...

as himself *

Erwin Faber Erwin Faber (21 July 1891 – 4 May 1989) was a leading actor in Munich and later throughout Germany, beginning after World War I, and through the late-1970s, when he was still performing at the Residenz Theatre (The National Theatre of Bava ...

as himself *

Veronika Fitz Veronika Fitz (28 March 1936 – 2 January 2020) was a German television actress. She also had some solo-shows on the stage and produced a few singles. Selected filmography * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1956) * ''The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * '' The H ...

as herself * Robert Graf as himself *

Margarete Haagen Margarete Haagen (29 November 1889 – 19 November 1966) was a German stage and film actress. Haagen appeared in over a hundred films during her career, generally in character roles. She specialised in playing good-natured elderly ladies. Fo ...

as herself *

Harry Hertzsch Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...

as himself *

Eva Maria Meineke Eva Maria Meineke (8 October 1923 - 7 May 2018) was a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 2008, including ''Yesterday Girl'' and ''Something for Everyone ''Something for Everyone'' is a 1970 American blac ...

as herself * Hannes Messemer as himself *

Ina Peters Ina Peters (1928–2004) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Goble p.195 Selected filmography * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * ''André and Ursula'' (1955) * ''Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) * ''Charley's Aunt'' (1956) * ''The Spessart Inn' ...

as herself * Rosel Schäfer as herself * Johanna von Koczian as herself * Annemarie Wernicke as herself

References

Bibliography

* Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Göktürk. ''The German Cinema Book''. BFI, 2002. * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1960 films 1960 drama films German drama films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann Films about actors Films about educators Constantin Film films Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub