Biography
Josef Dietze was a German cinematographer. He was born on 24 November 1887 in Bonn and died on 25 September 1949 in Berlin.
His credits include numerous silent-era German films, among them several produced by the Treumann-Larsen company and works for Filmwerkstätte Erich Claudius. In 1931 and 1932 he photographed two Finnish features, Erämaan turvissa and Kuisma ja Helinä. He was one of the cinematographers on Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938), released in parts as Fest der Völker and Fest der Schönheit, and worked on the 1940 documentary Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940.
