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Oskar Pietsch

German production designer (1918-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ1569361 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oskar Pietsch (1918–2012) was a German art director.

Selected filmography

Kein Hüsung (1954)

Der Ochse von Kulm (1955)

The Captain from Cologne (1956)

Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner (1957)

My Wife Makes Music (1958)

Love's Confusion (1959)

Auf Wiedersehen (film) (1961)

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)

References

Bibliography

Kalat, David. The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels. McFarland, 2005.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oskar Pietsch” as german production designer (1918-2012). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oskar, Pietsch and German.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 2012, 1954, 1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-01-10. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oskar, Pietsch and German providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Oskar Pietsch”, the useful work is to connect “german production designer (1918-2012)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1569361. VIAF identifies the subject as 311614413. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 2012, 1954 and 1955.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Oskar Pietsch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.