# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-ruttmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:03.929Z

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name: "Walter Ruttmann"
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description: "Walter Ruttmann was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (Weekend) (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of sound collages and audio plays."
tagline: "German film director (1887-1941)"
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birthDate: "1887-12-28"
deathDate: "1941-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump