# Fritz Umgelter

Fritz Umgelter (18 August 1922 – 9 May 1981) was a German television director, television writer, and film director.
Umgelter worked mainly in television as both a writer and director. He received directing credit for 68 TV films or series, and received writing credits for 22 TV films or series segments. He also directed 7 cinema films (of which he received directing credit for 6), but these were not critically acclaimed, and he remains best known for his television works.

## Awards

In 1967 his television film, Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (based on the play Chips with Everything by Arnold Wesker), he won the Teleplay Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival [de]. This award is presented by the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste and is a German analog to a BAFTA or Emmy Award.

## Filmography

His film releases were:
* 1958: All the Sins of the Earth
* 1958: Mit Eva fing die Sünde an [de] (American re-edited version 1962: The Bellboy and the Playgirls)
* 1958: Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter [de]
* 1961: Only the Wind
* 1965: Tread Softly
* 1967: A Handful of Heroes
* 1968: Tower of Screaming Virgins [de] (Uncredited. Director: Franz Antel)
His television work includes:
* Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1954) — (based on N'écoutez pas, mesdames !)
* Ein Phönix zuviel (1955) — (based on A Phoenix Too Frequent)
* Der Hund von Baskerville (1955) — (based on The Hound of the Baskervilles)
* Ein Volksfeind (1955) — (based on An Enemy of the People)
* Molière spielt in Versailles (1955) — (based on a play by Walter Knaus [de] including three plays by Molière)
* Schiffchen zu 100 Francs (1956) — (based on the radio play Der Admiral by Alix du Frênes)
* Der Flüchtling (1956) — (based on a play by Fritz Hochwälder)
* Gelähmte Schwingen (1956) — (based on a play by Ludwig Thoma)
* Der Verräter (1956) — (based on the play The Traitor by Herman Wouk)
* Öl und Champagner (1956) — (based on a play by Ferenc Molnár)
* Die letzte Patrouille? (1956) — (screenplay by Artur Müller [de])
* Das Spinnennetz (1956) — (based on Spider's Web by Agatha Christie)
* Zwölftausend (1956) — (based on a play by Bruno Frank)
* Zehn Jahre und drei Tage (1956) — (based on a radio play by Ivo Braak [de])
* Die Panne (1957) — (based on A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
* Montserrat (1957) — (based on a play by Emmanuel Roblès)
* Monsignores große Stunde (1957) — (based on the play Monsignor's Hour by Emmet Lavery)
* Romeo und Julia (1957) — (based on Romeo and Juliet)
* Ganz groß in Kleinigkeiten (1957) — (based on An Eye for Detail by Berkely Mather)
* Don Carlos (1957) — (based on Don Carlos)
* Olivia (1958) — (based on Love In Idleness)
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (1959, TV miniseries) — (based on the story of Cornelius Rost)
* Die Räuber (1959) — (based on The Robbers)
* Das mittlere Fenster (1959) — (based on the novel The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge)
* Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960, TV miniseries)
* Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (1960) — (based on The Man Who Was Thursday)
* Gericht über Las Casas (1960) — (based on the play Las Casas vor Karl V. [de] by Reinhold Schneider)
* Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1961) — (based on The Prince of Homburg)
* Die Journalisten (1961) — (based on a play by Gustav Freytag)
* Und Pippa tanzt (1961) — (based on a play by Gerhart Hauptmann)
* Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst (1962, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Hans Fallada)
* Montserrat (1962) — (based on a play by Emmanuel Roblès)
* Der Belagerungszustand (1963) — (based on The State of Siege)
* Danton's Death [de] (1963) — (based on Danton's Death)
* Die Abrechnung (1963) — (based on the play Zar Alexander by Reinhold Schneider)
* Freundschaftsspiel (1963) — (screenplay by Dieter Meichsner [de])
* Der schlechte Soldat Smith (1963) — (based on the play The Bad Soldier Smith by William Douglas Home)
* Den Tod in der Hand (1963) — (based on the novel Échec au porteur by Noël Calef [fr])
* Der Traum des Eroberers (1964) — (based on a play by Reinhold Schneider)
* König Richard III (1964) — (based on Richard III)
* Tom und seine Söhne (1964) — (based on The Country Boy)
* Bei Tag und Nacht (1964) — (based on The Dog in the Manger)
* The Physicists [de] (1964) — (based on The Physicists)
* Überstunden (1965) — (screenplay by Johannes Hendrich [de])
* Der Sündenbock (1965) — (based on a novel by Luise Rinser)
* Nun singen sie wieder (1965) — (based on a play by Max Frisch)
* Nachtfahrt (1965) — (based on a novel by Simon Glas)
* Perlenkomödie (1966) — (based on a play by Bruno Frank)
* Münchhausen (1966) — (based on a play by Walter Hasenclever)
* Freiheit im Dezember (1966) — (screenplay by Leo Lehman [de])
* Caroline (1966) — (based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham)
* Herrenhaus (1966) — (based on the play Mannerhouse by Thomas Wolfe)
* Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1966) — (based on The Good Person of Szechwan)
* Nur einer wird leben (1966) — (based on a novel by André Picot [fr])
* Die Affäre Eulenburg (1967) — (Docudrama about the Harden–Eulenburg affair)
* Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967) — (based on Chips with Everything)
* Mr. Arcularis (1967) — (based on a story by Conrad Aiken)
* Sieben Wochen auf dem Eis (1967) — (Docudrama about the crash of the airship Italia)
* So war Herr Brummell (1967) — (film about Beau Brummell, based on a play by Ernst Penzoldt)
* Fräulein Julie (1968) — (based on Miss Julie)
* Die Freier (1969) — (based on a play by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff)
* Epitaph für einen König (1969) — (based on August Strindberg's play Karl XII)
* Rebellion of the Lost [de] (1969, TV miniseries) — (screenplay by Wolfgang Menge, based on a novel by Henry Jaeger)
* Der Tanz des Sergeanten Musgrave (1969) — (based on Serjeant Musgrave's Dance)
* Like a Tear in the Ocean [de] (1970, TV miniseries) — (based on Like a Tear in the Ocean by Manès Sperber)
* Sessel zwischen den Stühlen (1970) — (screenplay by Wolfgang Menge)
* Menschen (1970) — (based on Creatures That Once Were Men by Maxim Gorky)
* Merkwürdige Geschichten (1970–71, TV series, 13 episodes)
* Viel Getu' um nichts (1971) — (based on Much Ado About Nothing)
* Elsa Brändström (1971) — (Docudrama about Elsa Brändström)
* Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall – Ur-Opas dufter Krieg 70/71 (co-director: Jürgen Neven-du Mont, 1971)
* Das Abenteuer eines armen Christenmenschen (1971) — (based on Story of a Humble Christian)
* Das Klavier [de] (1972) — (based on a novel by Julius Tinzmann [de])
* Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973, TV miniseries) — (biographical film about Friedrich von der Trenck)
* Der Vorgang (1973) — (based on a novel by Ladislav Mňačko)
* Wenn alle anderen fehlen (1973) — (screenplay by Manfred Bieler [de])
* Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel (1973) — (based on La Fin et les Moyens by Louis C. Thomas [fr])
* Arsène Lupin (1974, TV series, 3 episodes)
* Im Vorhof der Wahrheit [de] (1974) — (screenplay by Johannes Hendrich [de])
* Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski [de] (1975, TV miniseries) — (biographical film about Maurice Benyovszky)
* Tatort: Die Rechnung wird nachgereicht [de] (1975)
* Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus [de] (1975, TV miniseries) — (based on Simplicius Simplicissimus)
* Ein Badeunfall (1976) — (screenplay by Karl Wittlinger [de])
* Tatort: Zwei Flugkarten nach Rio [de] (1976)
* Die Babenberger in Österreich (1976) — (documentary about the Babenberg dynasty, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer)
* Der Winter, der ein Sommer war [de] (1976, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Sandra Paretti)
* Tatort: Flieder für Jaczek [de] (1977)
* Tatort: Feuerzauber [de] (1977)
* Vorhang auf, wir spielen Mord (1978) — (based on the novel Enter Murderers by Henry Slesar)
* Ein typischer Fall (1978) — (screenplay by Irene Rodrian [de])
* Revolution in Frankfurt [de] (1979) — (film about the Fettmilch uprising 1614)
* Dr. Knock oder Der Triumph der Medizin (1979) — (based on Knock)
* Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (1979, TV miniseries) — (based on The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle)
* The Weavers [de] (1980) — (based on The Weavers)
* Gesucht wird ... – Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren (1980) — (screenplay by Herbert Reinecker)
* In Prag und anderswo (1980) — (biographical film about Jaroslav Hašek)
* Tatort: Schattenboxen [de] (1981)
* In the Land of Cockaigne (1981) — (based on a novel by Heinrich Mann)
* Das Traumschiff (1981–82, TV series, 6 episodes)