Adolf Schlasy

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Adolf Schlasy , also Adolfo W. Slazy and Weis Slazy (born May 23, 1896 in Alwernia , Galicia , as Adolf Schlesinger ; † after 1955) was an Austrian cameraman .

Life

Adolf Schlesinger, born in a market town near Kraków , has been a laborer in Vienna since September 1915 . After completing his photographic training, shortly after the end of the First World War, he began working as a cameraman for Austrian film under his birth name. During this time he met the director Paul Czinner , with whose work Schlasy's work was to be closely connected in the future. Czinner went to Berlin in 1920, followed by Schlesinger. He then returned temporarily to Vienna, who was now called Schlasy. 1924 Schlasy left the Austrian capital again.

In 1925 he arrived again in Berlin . Czinner made Schlasy the cameraman for all of his productions over the next five years. In this role, Adolf Schlasy photographed some of the most famous works of those years: The violinist from Florence , Doña Juana, Fräulein Else and Ariane with Czinner's future wife Elisabeth Bergner in the leading female roles. Schlasy fell ill while filming Ariane , and his work had to be taken over by his colleague Fritz Arno Wagner .

While Czinner and Bergner went to France in 1932 , Schlasy stayed in Germany , but received no more orders. When the National Socialists came to power, the Jew left Berlin and found work in Vienna, Amsterdam , Paris and Madrid over the next four years . Schlasy worked several times with Max Nosseck in the Spanish capital . 1936 fled Schlasy before the Civil War in Spain and returned briefly to Vienna. In the Netherlands , Schlasy began working on the camerawork on Ludwig Berger's Pygmalion film at the end of the same year , which he put down after only two days.

Finally he moved to Argentina in 1938 to work as a cameraman. First he was engaged by the Spanish director Antonio Momplet , who had also arrived in Buenos Aires , under whose direction Schlasy had shot the comedy La millona shortly before his escape from Madrid , and had him photograph his productions Turbión and Novios para las muchachas . Schlasy was awarded the Critics' Prize for his work on Pachamama . Until 1955 he can be identified under the pseudonym Adolfo W. Slazy, which is phonetically based on Adolf Schlasy, or as Weis Slazy.

Filmography

  • 1919: The Eye of the Buddha
  • 1919: Peti's violin
  • 1919: Inferno
  • 1920: Enoptria - the fight for the sun
  • 1920: The Apache Lord
  • 1921: The horrors of the snake tomb
  • 1922: victim of passion
  • 1924: Ponte Brolla
  • 1926: The violinist from Florence
  • 1926: love
  • 1927: Doña Juana
  • 1929: Miss Else
  • 1929: The Road of Lost Souls (The Woman He Scorned)
  • 1930: The private secretary
  • 1930: Ariane
  • 1931: The unfaithful Eckehart
  • 1933: Sunbeam
  • 1933: Gardez le sourire
  • 1934: A star falls from the sky
  • 1934: Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon
  • 1934: De big van het regiment
  • 1934: Una semana de felicidad
  • 1934: Alegre voy
  • 1935: Una aventura oriental
  • 1935: Poderoso caballero
  • 1936: La millona
  • 1938: Turbión
  • 1940: Novios para las muchachas
  • 1942: Sendas cruzadas
  • 1944: Pachamama
  • 1948: La gran tentación
  • 1949: Fascinación
  • 1953: Una ventana a la vida
  • 1955: Bendita seas

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 441 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Schlasy, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slazy, Adolfo W .; Slazy, Weis; Schlesinger, Adolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Alwernia , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH after 1955