Heinrich Weidemann (film architect)

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Heinrich Friedrich Jakob Weidemann (born January 25, 1899 in Schwerin , German Empire , † February 17, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German film architect .

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Weidemann had received training as an art and decoration painter. In 1925 Eugen Schüfftan brought him to film and let him work on the special effects for Fritz Lang's science fiction classic Metropolis . Weidemann's tasks included operating a trick camera. From October 1, 1926 to January 15, 1930, Weidemann was employed by Deutsche Spiegeltechnik GmbH & Co. , which commercially evaluated the Schüfftan mirroring process . In 1926 he followed Schüfftan for a short-term engagement in Hollywood , where he worked with his mentor on the film Lieb mich und die Welt ist mein (Love Me and the World is Mine) . He then followed him to Paris .

Back in Berlin, Heinrich Weidemann delivered special recordings from 1929 to 1932 for the films Anesthesia , Berlin - Alexanderplatz , The poor sinner and FP1 does not answer . In the 1930s, Weidemann worked as an architect's assistant and second architect for colleagues Fritz Maurischat and Hermann Warm .

In 1937, after two jobs as a simple architect at the side of Robert Herlth (at The Ruler and The Broken Jug ), he was appointed co-chief architect for the first time. Until the end of the war, Weidemann designed the decorations for films from a wide variety of production companies, and from 1943 onwards regularly for Bavaria Film in Munich . After Weidemann had resumed his work as a production designer at DEFA in 1949 after a four-year break , he began working for German film companies that same year.

Until 1957 he formed a permanent team with his colleague Willi A. Herrmann . In addition to melodramas and schnulzers typical for this time, both also provided some operetta film adaptations. Weidemann then cooperated with various other colleagues. In the 1960s he also designed the buildings for international co-productions, including the lavish and prominent historical epic Genghis Khan . For two American films made in Germany ( One, Two, Three , Emil and the Detectives ), he was hired as the second architect for the on-site film construction. He created most of his later work in the service of Artur Brauner's CCC film .

At the age of 70 Heinrich Weidemann withdrew from the cinema.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 299 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Weidemann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidemann, Heinrich Friedrich Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1982
Place of death Berlin