Karl Attenberger

Karl Attenberger (born October 28, 1885 in Munich ; † November 19, 1951 there ) was a German cameraman .

Life

The brother of the director and producer Toni Attenberger received his photography training at the Technical University of Munich . From 1906 he worked as a camera assistant for film, and in 1917 he was responsible for the recordings himself for the first time.

Attenberger was mainly used in home films for the Bavarian film company Emelka with director Franz Seitz , but occasionally he also shot in Berlin, for example for Prometheus Film . In the 1930s he was behind the camera adapting the novels by Ludwig Ganghofer for the Munich producer Peter Ostermayr . He was also one of the cameramen who were involved in Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi party rally film Triumph des Willens .

In 1940 he expressed himself critical of the German leadership and the National Socialist system in a café, whereupon he was denounced by two soldiers on home leave. Attenberger was sentenced to six months in prison in June 1940 for undermining military strength and on March 6, 1941 expelled from the film department of the Reichsfilmkammer .

He was only resumed in November 1942, but was only allowed to make six short advertising films and two fairy tale adaptations. In the post-war period , the cancer-stricken cameraman still provided the pictures for documentaries about the war-torn cities of Nuremberg and Munich as well as for some puppet films.

Filmography

1917: The Maharaja's ruby 1919: The marriage of an eighteen year old 1920: The cut out face 1920: the last shot 1920: Through all hells 1920: The end of the Paolo de Gaspardo adventure 1921: Tom Mürger, the bank robber 1921: The escape into the afterlife 1921: The Christ of Oberammergau 1922: Marcco, the death row inmate 1922: Marcco knows no fear 1922: Marco's difficult victory 1922: The Queen's Favorite 1922: Marcco, the wrestler of the Mikado 1922: Christopher Columbus 1924: The blonde Hannele 1924: To honor a woman 1925: The seeking soul 1926: The song of life 1926: Superfluous people 1926: Secret sinners 1927: Climbing maxi 1927: The villa in the Tiergarten 1927: What the children keep from their parents 1927: Men before marriage 1927: The most sophisticated woman in Berlin 1928: Child tragedy 1928: give me life 1928: where the alpine roses bloom

1928: The Lady in Black 1929: Andreas Hofer 1930: The Grenzjäger 1930: The master carver of Oberammergau 1930: The monk of St. Bartholomä 1930: Wildschütz Jennerwein. Hearts in need 1930: The holy silence 1930: When the evening bells ring 1930: Glowing Mountains - Flaming Heart 1931: The trembling mountain 1931: Under the spell of the mountains 1933: summiteer 1934: Hubertus Castle 1935: In a cool valley 1935: The monastery hunter 1935: triumph of will 1936: Vogelöd Castle 1936: Standschütze Bruggler 1936: The Hunter of Fall 1937: The antenna wire 1937: The silence in the forest 1938: Pitty 1938: Around head and collar 1938: But my dear Mr. Neumann 1938: Men shouldn't be left alone 1938: Thunderstorm in May 1940: Beates honeymoon 1944: Little Muck 1944: Mrs. Holle

annotation

1. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 44.

Web links

• Karl Attenberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)