Adolf Engl

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Adolf Engl (born December 7, 1884 in Saarn , today part of Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † after 1941 ), was a German film director , head of the Reich Association of German Movie Theaters and cinema owner.

Life

Engl has been shown to direct four films in 1919 and 1920. On 1 December 1931 he joined the Nazi Party and was a Munich-based owner of several theaters, including in Regensburg for First Acting Chairman of the cinemas of the German National Association appointed to the DC circuit should be used in the field of cinematography. Previously, he had a Bavarian chairman of the Association of the introduction of the Tonfilmes welcomed what its role as production manager of Tobis is explainable. As chairman of the supervisory board of Syndikatfilm from February 1932, he was the official advisor to the NSDAP's film procurement office and head of the Gaufilmstelle Süd. From 1938 to 1941 he was named as the owner of the aforementioned Regensburg cinema “Velodrom”, with his residence in Feilnbach / Upper Bavaria, House Englhof.

Filmography

  • 1919: The hero girl of the prairie
  • 1919: The Ski Girl (Premiere: January 14, 1920 in Munich, Regina-Lichtspiele)
  • 1920: The Lissy vom Tietz (Premiere: April 5, 1920 in Munich, Lichtschauspielhaus)
  • 1920: Mix and pimples

Motion picture theater

  • 1927 Stadttheater-Lichtspiele, owner: Vereinigte Lichtspiele Kempten, Adolf Engl, Munich, Prielmayerstraße 16.
  • 1928 Stadt-Theater-Lichtspiele, Theaterstraße 4, owner: Dir. Adolf Engl, Munich, Prielmayerstraße 16.
  • 1928 to 1937: Kammer-Lichtspiele, Kempten, Vogtstraße 2 (on the 1st floor of the “Gewerbehalle” built in 1905), approx. 450 seats; Owner: Dir. Adolf Engl, Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 6; Previous owner: Ludwig Fink, Marktoberdorf; 1938 to Maria Wolf, Kempten.
  • 1930 to 1932: Capitol Film & Bühne, “Velodrom”, Regensburg, Arnulfplatz 4, owner: Dir. Adolf Engl, Munich, Nussbaumstraße 6; Previous owner (1917): Oberdorfer; 1938 to 1941 Owner: Dir. A. Engl, Feilnbach / Upper Bavaria, House Englhof.

literature

  • Ulrich Döge: “He has a hot heart”: the publisher and film entrepreneur Karl Wolffsohn. Publishing house tredition GmbH, Hamburg 2016, note 378, 379, 380.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Lerch-Stumpf: For a Zehnerl into paradise: Munich cinema history 1896 to 1945, Dölling and Galitz, 2004
  2. ↑ Die Weltbühne, published by Verlag der Weltbühne, notes: v. 29, nos. 28-52
  3. ↑ Capitol (Velodrom) accessed on www.allekinos.com on February 9, 2014
  4. ^ Filmkurier , March 18, 1933, quoted from: Film in the Third Reich; art and propaganda in Nazi Germany, by David Stewart Hull, published by Simon and Schuster, 1973.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus: The struggle for the sound film: Strategies of the electrical and film industry in the 20s and 30s, Droste 1999, p. 54
  6. ↑ Jan Distelmeyer: Tonfilmfrieden / Tonfilmkrieg: the story of Tobis from the technology syndicate to the state company, Edition Text + Criticism, 2003
  7. ↑ This is how it was done at UFA ... from January 10, 1951, accessed on www.spiegel.de on February 9, 2014
  8. ↑ Kammer-Lichtspiele Kempten in: Kinowiki .
  9. ↑ Capitol Regensburg In: Kinowiki .
personal data
SURNAME Engl, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarn , today part of Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH after 1941