Thoughtful, stylish postwar German filmmaker who began his career as an actor in repertory theater but soon graduated to editing and narrating literary programs for German radio. Adlon began working in TV in 1970, and made several shorts and documentaries before being commissioned, in 1978, to make a full-length television film, "The Guardian and His Poet", about Swiss poet Robert Walser and his publisher/mentor. Well-received at several major film festivals, "Guardian" paved the way for Adlon to make his first feature, "Celeste" (1981), a painstaking recreation of the last days of Marcel
After graduating from college, worked as an actor for three years in state-run theater doing classical repertory and operettas, then as narrator and editor for literary programs on radio
In the 1970s created film features for "Abendschau", a topical magazine program on TV, then made short TV documentaries (often portraits of literary and musical figures, shot cinema-verite style)
Made first long TV documentary profile, a one hour portrait of cartoonist Tomi Ungerer
1978
With wife Eleanore, formed production company Pelemele Film GmbH
