Rudolf Schaad

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Rudolf Schaad (born December 14, 1901 in Prischib , Russian Empire , † February 15, 1990 in Stuttgart ) was a German film editor . He was responsible for editing over 20 feature films . He has also directed several short films, mostly documentary, and co-directed a feature film. In his almost 30-year career in the film industry , he has also worked as a screenwriter , assistant director and sound designer. In the 1950s, Schaad began a second career as the commercial director of his wife Anni Schaad's fashion jewelry workshop .

Life

Rudolf Schaad was born as a child of Black Sea Germans in the settlement of Prischib , which is now called Pryschyb and is located in the Ukrainian Oblast of Zaporizhia . At what age and under what circumstances he came to Germany cannot be determined from the available sources.

Beginnings at UFA

In the days of silent films, Rudolf Schaad was still working as a director for the Stuttgart film production company Kling-Film, for the documentary short film Modern Reporter (1929). Soon afterwards, the sound film caught on in the industry . Having learned about the new technology, Schaad came to UFA in Berlin and worked on the sound editing of the science fiction film FP1 does not answer (director: Karl Hartl ), of which three language versions were produced. In this project he was also able to work with editor Willy Zeyn jr. look over his shoulder, with whom he would work again in 1936 on the western The Emperor of California (director: Luis Trenker ).

Schaad's first film as an independent editor was the UFA comedy Die Gräfin von Monte Christo , also directed by Karl Hartl. In 1933 he was again involved in a multilingual version film , which was shot and edited in Vienna, not by UFA, but by: The thriller Invisible Opponents by director Rudolph Katscher and producer Sam Spiegel . Parallel to the German version, a French version was created with the title Les requins du pétrole . In the official information on both versions, the name Phillis Fehr is listed next to Rudolf Schaad under »Schnitt« . However, it is unlikely that Phillis Fehr, who otherwise only appears as a supporting actress in entertainment films of the 1930s, actually did the film montage with Schaad. This was supposed to cover up the fact that Schaad's real partner was the Jewish film editor Rudi Fehr , for whom there were no more job opportunities in the German film industry after the Nazis came to power . In any case, Rudi Fehr said in a book interview in 1991 that he cut invisible opponents .

Film work during the Nazi era

During the Nazi era, Rudolf Schaad worked on several propaganda films as well as on light entertainment films and short documentaries. He was a "technical staff" at both Olympic films of Leni Riefenstahl involved, and was commissioned in 1937, to the short documentary The Olympic film is formed to produce a kind of early making-of .

In addition to other short, rather apolitical documentaries such as Pirsch unter Wasser (1942), Schaad also directed the full-length German-Austrian entertainment film So Do You Like Me (1941), which he made with Hans Thimig and also edited himself. The film was described as follows at the time:

“A naive and cheerful love story and swindle from town and country with often modified, but still popular poses, which the authors and directors knew about the considerable laughing effect. Viennese actors, dialogues in cozy dialect and the mountains of East Tyrol created the right atmosphere. "

- Paimann's film lists, No. 1301

As a cutter mounted Schaad in the years 1939-1943 five feature films by director Gustav Ucicky , including the notorious reservation film Homecoming , which the Eastern campaign the Wehrmacht progagdandistisch should prepare.

post war period

After the end of the Second World War, Schaad was no longer active as a director. He worked as an editor and assistant director until the mid-1950s before retiring entirely from the film industry. His last work on a film was the montage of the 1956 Austrian film Fuhrmann Henschel by director Josef von Báky .

Family and second career

Rudolf Schaad was married to the jewelry producer Anni Schaad . From 1952, he worked as commercial manager for their Langani fashion jewelry workshop . The couple had four children: Katharina (born 1937), Annette (born 1939), Susanne (born 1945) and Michael (born 1955).

Filmography

Film editing

Sound editing

  • 1932: FP1 does not answer (German version) - Director: Karl Hartl
  • 1933: IF 1 ne répond plus (French version)
  • 1933: FP1 (English version)
  • 1934: Such a flail - Director: Robert A. Stemmle

Director

  • 1929: Modern Reporters (short documentary)
  • 1934: Bayreuth prepares the festival (short documentary)
  • 1935: Ufa fairy tale (short film)
  • 1937: The Olympia Film is made (short documentary film)
  • 1938: Artists of the work (short documentary) - co-director with Walter Frentz
  • 1941: That's how I like you (feature film) - co-director with Hans Thimig , also editing
  • 1942: Stalking under water (short documentary film)

Assistant director

script

  • 1936: Call to the World (short documentary) - Director: Ulrich Kayser
  • 1936: Kampf um Brot (short documentary film) - Director: Ulrich Kayser
  • 1937: The Olympia Film is made (short documentary film)
  • 1938: Artists of the work (short documentary) - with Carl Prucker and Walter Frantz

Further contributions

literature

  • Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): The Ufa book . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-86150-065-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Schaad's life data at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Modern reporters. Film portal , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Invisible enemies. Film portal , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Les requins du pétrole. Film portal , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Vincent Lobrutto: Selected Takes: film editor on editing . ABC-CLIO, 1991, ISBN 0-275-93395-4 , Rudi Fehr, p. 29 ( google.com ).
  6. ↑ Olympia (2 parts). Film portal , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ That's how I like you. Film portal , accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ That's how I like you! In: Paimann's Filmlisten, No. 1301. March 14, 1941, accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Langani - Historie 1952. www.langani.de, accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Langani - Historie 1955. www.langani.de, accessed on March 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schaad, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Prischib , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1990
Place of death Stuttgart