Adolf Gärtner

This article is about the film director; for the music teacher and choir director, see Adolf Hartmut Gärtner .

Adolf Gärtner (born July 24, 1870 in Berlin , † after 1925) was a German film director .

Life

After graduating from high school in the early 1890s, Gärtner had initially worked as an actor and later as a director at the theater without much success, before joining the cinema industry in 1910. The film pioneer and producer Oskar Messter hired the 40-year-old as one of his in-house directors. Until 1913, Adolf Gärtner staged an abundance of dramas and melodramas, often based on manuscripts by the former operetta singer Luise del Zopp . In the main roles you could see the early Messter stars Henny Porten , Hugo Flink , Friedrich Zelnik , Robert Garrison and Erich Kaiser-Titz . The later well-known film director Carl Froelich was often at the camera of these mostly short productions .

His contract with Messter expired in the spring of 1913, and Gärtner only found work behind the camera again during the First World War, as an employee of the production company of Ernst Reicher , who played the private detective Stuart Webbs in the crime film series of the same name ( The Striped Domino , The dead awaken , The midnight ship , The letter opener , The cry for help , The journey into the hereafter , The whip , Countess de Castro ).

In 1917 and 1919/20 Gärtner made a few films with the stage star Albert Bassermann , in the meantime he brought out the 16-year-old young artist Eva May in his production of Dreams . In 1920/21 he produced some melodramas ( traveling people ), dramas ( Sicilian blood revenge ), sensational ( Ten Billion Volts , The Adventurer of Monte Carlo ) and period films ( Maria Tudor , Napoleon and the Little Washerwoman ) on behalf of the actress / producer Ellen Richter ) here. After Ellen Richter had entrusted her husband Willi Wolff with directing her films since 1922 , Adolf Gärtner found no employment as a director. He gave his farewell performance in 1925 with Die Zirkusprinzessin , a film with which the 16-year-old circus art rider Cilly Feindt was introduced to the cinema audience. After that his track is lost.

The gardener, who had been married since 1907, was one of the most productive directors of his time, of early silent films. He is said to have written the script for twenty of his productions. In a statement made for the Lexikon des Films in 1925/26 , he stated: “In all, I have probably directed around 100 films because I have been a film director for 15 years. Probably not a single one has even come close to reaching this high number. "

Filmography (selection)

• 1910: nobility of a Japanese man
• 1911: Mailbox to the good Lord
• 1911: The bar girl
• 1911: The bell of luck
• 1911: The artist's downfall
• 1911: The big city at night, how it cries and laughs
• 1911: The bad censorship
• 1911: Nobility among enemies
• 1911: A duel without witnesses
• 1911: A game about the happiness of two people
• 1911: Frau Rechtsanwalt's first success
• 1911: Friedel, the violinist
• 1911: Outlawed
• 1911: Dangerous love fight between two women
• 1911: Forgotten in luck
• 1911: In the Scheunenviertel
• 1911: love of artists
• 1911: love and passion
• 1911: Mericke from Neu-Ruppin comes to Berlin
• 1911: Mothers, do not despair
• 1911: Mother's day of death
• 1911: Pearls mean tears
• 1911: tragedy of a strike
• 1911: Tragedy of a traitor
• 1911: As we forgive
• 1911: Repentance too late!
• 1911: At the right time
• 1911: The miller and his child
• 1911: The dangerous age
• 1911: The adopted child
• 1911: a misstep
• 1911: a dear girl
• 1911: Renate
• 1912: addressee died
• 1912: The ghost of the past
• 1912: The Prince's kiss
• 1912: Life's dice game
• 1912: The wedding of Valeni
• 1912: The Queen of the Night
• 1912: The Stradivarius violin
• 1912: The dead are silent
• 1912: A word of honor
• 1912: A mother's victim
• 1912: It has to be an actor
• 1912: home
• 1912: Isaac, the merchant Jew
• 1912: Countess Water Lily
• 1912: mask joke
• 1912: Masked love
• 1912: Papa, why don't you love me?
• 1912: agonizing existence
• 1912: Shadow of Life
• 1912: Dearly bought happiness
• 1913: The white veil
• 1913: Atonement of the sea
• 1913: The pastor's daughter
• 1913: Broken wings
• 1913: List against List
• 1915: The midnight ship
• 1915: The striped domino
• 1915: his only son
• 1915: The dead awaken
• 1916: The letter opener
• 1916: The cry for help
• 1916: The whip
• 1916: The journey into the hereafter
• 1916: Countess de Castro
• 1917: The light signal
• 1917: The night conversation
• 1917: The iron will
• 1917: The Senatorial Election
• 1917: A sharp shot
• 1917: A drop of poison
• 1917: On the wedding evening
• 1917: Room number seven
• 1917: You shall not have any other gods
• 1917: master and servant
• 1918: The rumor
• 1918: The stolen hotel
• 1918: The spouse representative
• 1918: The bells of the Katharinenkirche
• 1918: dreamed of
• 1918: cash register revision
• 1918: Sadja
• 1919: the work of his life
• 1919: The last witness
• 1919: a weak hour
• 1920: The midnight visit
• 1920: The duplicity of events
• 1920: The Princess Voronzoff
• 1920: The sons of Count Dossy
• 1920: the voice
• 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress
• 1920: Sicilian blood revenge
• 1921: 10 million volts
• 1921: The Riddle of the Sphinx
• 1921: The Adventure of Monte Carlo - 1. The Shah's Lover
• 1921: The Adventure of Monte Carlo - 2nd Moroccan Nights
• 1921: Traveling people
• 1921: Teufel and Circe
• 1921: the white death
• 1925: The circus princess

literature

• Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926.
• Movie star. Richter's Handbook of Actors, Directors and Writers of Film. Vol. 4, 1921/1922, ZDB -ID 1342234-0 .

Web links

• Adolf gardeners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Adolf Gärtner at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life dates circulating in other sources (e.g. in the IMDb: * March 24, 1879 in Berlin; † January 9, 1958 in Los Angeles) are incorrect and refer to an American film distributor and occasional producer named Adolph Gartner.