Fritz Umgelter

Fritz Umgelter (18 August 1922 in Stuttgart – 9 May 1981 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German television director, television writer, and film director.
Umgelter worked mainly in television as both a writer and director. He received directing credit for 68 TV films or series, and received writing credits for 22 TV films or series segments. He also directed 7 cinema films (of which he received directing credit for 6), but these were not critically acclaimed, and he remains best known for his television works.

In 1967 his television film, Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (based on the play Chips with Everything by Arnold Wesker), he won the Teleplay Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival (de). This award is presented by the "Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste" and is a German analog to a BAFTA or Emmy Award.

His film releases were:

• 1957 Alle Sünden dieser Erde
• 1958 Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter (de)
• 1958 Mit Eva fing die Sünde an (American re-edited version 1962: The Bellboy and the Playgirls)
• 1961 Only the Wind (... nur der Wind)
• 1965 Tread Softly (Schüsse aus dem Geigenkasten)
• 1967 Eine Handvoll Helden (de)
• 1968 Der Turm der verbotenen Liebe (de) (Uncredited. Director: Franz Antel)

His television work includes:

• As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (de) (1959)
• Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960)
• Montserrat (1962)
• Dantons Tod (1963)
• Die Physiker (de) (1964)
• Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967)
• Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973)
• Im Vorhof der Wahrheit (de) (1974)
• Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (de) (1975)
• Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus (de) (1975)
• Der Winter, der ein Sommer war (de) (1976)
• Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (1979)