Background
He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor Gustaf Gründgens.
He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor Gustaf Gründgens.
He started his career in 1955 as the assistant director for the film Reifende Jugend. In 1960 he directed the film Faust, based on Goethe"s Faust and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens" personal freedom was more important than the freedom of art