Alphabet Magic

a film by Marita Neher

The typographer Hermann Zapfmins career spanned seven decades. He designed over two hundred fonts and created a typographical bridge between the Renaissance and the digital age. He designed the typefaces Optima, Palatino and Zapfino which are installed on every Apple computer today. A film about the lifework of an extraordinary typographer.

Alphabet Magic



Script and director
Marita Neher		 after an idea of
Alexandra Albrand
Contributers
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse
Hermann Zapf

Rick Musik, Jerry Kelly
Julian Waters, Jovica Veljovic
Akira Kobayashi, Otmar Höfer
Nadine Chanine, Luc aBarcellona
Georg Grabowski, Christian Heitzmann
 Director of Photography
Lotta Kilian
Kathrin Krottenthaler
Felix Greif
Light
Florian Lampersberger		 Sound
Moritz Kerst
Simon Huckstädt
Editor
Kathrin Krottenthaler		 Music
Hans Hafner
Director of photography
Christoph Boeckheler
Norman Posselt
Production Company
Nora Charlotta Graewe		 Producer
Jost-Arend Bösenberg
commissioned by Alexandra Albrand and Georg Grabkowsky /
DOKfilm, Germany 2018, 52 Min., German/English
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