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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1976

Returning to his hometown of Freiburg at the end of the war, Wolf Hart received his first filming license in the French occupation zone in 1945. There, he founded his production company "Hart-Film" in 1948, with which he moved to Hamburg in 1953.

Professionally trained, Wolf Hart began producing documentary, cultural and industrial films on his own in 1938; sometimes as a director and sometimes as a cameraman on behalf of smaller companies such as that of Albert Graf von Pestalozza but also for Tobis and UFA.

Numerous of his works, especially in the 1950s, received awards and prizes (titles such as "The Stream Carries Ice," "Rain," and "Small Discovery of the World"). In their compositional quality, the films testified to another of Wolf Hart's artistic skills: painting, to which he devoted himself extensively.

Wolf Hart was the son of the actor Ernst Hart and his wife Margarethe Volck. After attending a humanistic high school, he studied art history, history, geography and sports at the University of Freiburg.

When Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Hart, as leader of the Socialist Students' Union, planned to have the university of Freiburg occupied by the SPD troop "Reichsbanner", whereupon he was expelled.

In 1936, Wolf Hart was named for the first time as one of nine cameramen alongside his mentor Sepp Allgeier in the Nazi cultural film "Ewiger Wald" (Eternal Forest), which was steeped in 'blood and soil ideology'.

Wolf Hart also worked on Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia Film" in 1936.

In the summer of 1933, he met cameraman Sepp Allgeier, a member of the entourage of the renowned mountain filmmaker Arnold Fanck, who hired him as one of his assistants. Alongside Allgeier, Hart made his film debut in September 1933 in an adaptation of William Tell starring Hans Marr and Conrad Veidt.

In 1934, Wolf Hart assisted cameraman Sepp Allgeier in the winter sports film The Springer of Pontresina, which was shot in Switzerland, as well as in Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi party conference film "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will).