Erich Kästner (camera designer)

Erich Kurt Kästner (April 5, 1911–January 31, 2005) was an Academy Award-winning German movie camera designer. He was born in Jena.

During his work for ARRI he invented the spinning mirror reflex shutter for movie cameras, which was first used in the Arriflex 35 in 1937. It allows the operator to have a viewfinder image equal to the recorded picture.

Kästner received a Gordon E. Sawyer Award in 1992 and an Oscar in 1973 (Class II technical award [plaque] ) and 1982 (Academy Award of Merit [statuette] ). [cite web
url = http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=6&BSNomineeID=62977
title = Search result: Erich Kaestner
accessdate = 2008-01-27
publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] In 1994 he won the Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award [cite web
url = http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf
title = Bayerischer Filmpreis — "Pierrot": Bisherige Preisträger
accessdate = 2008-09-03
format = PDF
work = Bayerisches Landesportal
publisher = Bayerische Staatskanzlei
language = German]

He died in Penzberg.

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