Cameraman Christian Lehmann, who made a name for himself with his Defa documentaries, is dead. He died in Berlin on Saturday at the age of 89 after a long illness, his daughter told the German Press Agency on Sunday.
Born in Halbau in Silesia, now Ilowa in Poland, Lehmann studied to become a photographer and graphic designer after leaving school in Leipzig. In 1955, he moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg to study at the German Academy of Film Arts, where he studied in the camera department until 1959. He then worked for the GDR film company Defa, initially as an assistant and later as a freelance cameraman.
Lehmann filmed "Im Pergamon-Museum" with director Jürgen Böttcher in 1962 about the famous museum in the heart of Berlin and "Ofenbauer", which depicts the relocation of a 65-metre-high, 2,000-tonne blast furnace at the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost on the Oder by 18 meters.
According to Defa, Lehmann was involved in a total of more than 200 films.
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