Biografía

Son of the cinematographer Carl Hoffmann.

German director of light entertainments, popular in the 1950's and 60's. Hoffmann trained as an assistant under Robert Siodmak and Reinhold Schünzel during the 1930's. From 1939, he began directing comedies and idyllic romances which fared extremely well at the box office: Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941), Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (1954), Ich denke oft an Piroschka (1955) and Confesiones de un estafador (1957). He was also credited with discovering the actress Liselotte Pulver for the screen.

Kurt Hoffmann wasn't able go on in the 60's from former successes and he retired gradually from the film business.

The director Kurt Hoffmann came to Erik Charell after the examination as an unpaid trainee through his father. The first contact to the film business was done and it didn't last long till Kurt Hoffmann was engaged as an assistant director.

Kurt Hoffmann's first movie as a director came 1939 into being and was called "Paradies der Junggesellen". The leading role was played by Heinz Rühmann with whom he shot a total of seven movies.