Occupation Cinematographer Name Dietrich Lohmann | Role Cinematographer | |
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Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Movies Love Is Colder Than Dea, The Merchant of Four S, Deep Impact, Gods of the Plague, Katzelmacher Similar People Peer Raben, Harry Baer, Kurt Raab, Jurgen Jurges, Irm Hermann | ||
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Dietrich Lohmann, B.V.K. (German Society of Cinematographers) (9 March 1943 – 13 November 1997) was a German cinematographer.
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He was born in Schnepfenthal, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Fachschule für Optik und Fototechnik in Berlin. After graduating he entered Olympia-Film in Munich and worked with Thomas Mauch, and he became a key cinematographer of New German Cinema. He is prominent for his collaboration with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
He went to the US in 1988, and photographed Hollywood films such as The Innocent, Color of Night, A Couch in New York, The Peacemaker and Deep Impact.
He won at the German Film Awards in 1970, and at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards in 1989.
On November 13, 1997, Lohmann died from leukemia, aged 54.
The film Deep Impact was dedicated to Lohmann's memory.