Kurt Maetzig

He was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1911. He studied at the Munich Technical University and La Sorbonne in Paris. He was the first director of the DEFA newsreel DEFA, Der Augenzeuge, and directed several films, including Marriage in the Shadows (1947), The Beaverskin (1949) and The Rabbit Is Me (1965). He died in 2012.