Gottfried Kolditz was born on December 14, 1922 in Goldbach-Altenbach, Haut-Rhin, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Small White Mouse (1964), Signale - Ein Weltraumabenteuer (1970) and The Thing in the Castle (1979). He was previously married to Erika Koch. He died on June 15, 1982 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia].