- Kurt Maetzig was born on January 25, 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Ernst Thalmann: Son of the Working Class (1954). He was married to Yvonne Merin, Bärbel and Marion Keller. He died on August 8, 2012 in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
- SpousesYvonne Merin (divorced)Bärbel(? - present)Marion Keller (divorced, 2 children)
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1983
- He studied Chemistry, Business Administration and Political Economics. He also attended lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris.
- In 1934 his career in the film industry was limited by the Nazi Reichfilmkammer because his mother was Jewish.
- His mother was from a wealthy family of tea merchants from Hamburg and Denmark.
- During the Nazi era, he was able to remain involved in the motion picture industry by getting jobs with various firms in Berlin as an expert in film technology and photochemistry.
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