Albert Benitz

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Albert Benitz (born November 17, 1904 in Littenweiler , † March 11, 1979 in Hamburg ) was a German cameraman .

Life

After training as a saddlery journeyman, he came across film in 1924. He initially worked as a camera assistant at Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH, owned by mountain film specialist Arnold Fanck . When shooting Milak, the Greenland Hunter in 1926, he was an independent cameraman under his teacher Sepp Allgeier and also an actor. Together with Sepp Allgeier, Hans Schneeberger , Walter Riml and Richard Angst, he belongs to the Freiburg School .

His long-term collaboration with Luis Trenker , whose standard cameraman Benitz became, began in 1927 with the film The Big Jump . In 1928 he took part in an expedition led by Ludwig Kohl-Larsen to South Georgia and in 1938/39 he worked again for Fanck in the film Ein Robinson in Tierra del Fuego . In 1940 he was hired by Leni Riefenstahl for her film adaptation of the opera Tiefland . For four and a half years Benitz was busy with the drifting filming.

After the war he was behind the camera for numerous productions of German films. During this creative period he worked with Helmut Käutner on his award-winning films Des Teufels General (1955) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956), but Kurt Hoffmann was one of the directors for whom Benitz worked. He delivered his only own directorial work in 1949 with the love comedy Das Fräulein und der Vagabund . In 1960 he made his only Edgar Wallace film, Die Gang des Schreckens , directed by Harald Reinl , for which he used a "particularly eerie, sometimes dark recording technique".

Benitz died in Hamburg in 1979 and was buried in the main cemetery in Ohlsdorf .

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Benitz, Albert." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar-Wallace-Lexikon. Life - work - films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; P. 41. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
  2. ↑ 100th birthday of Albert Benitz in OHLSDORF - magazine for mourning culture
  3. ↑ According to the credits of the said film.

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 324.

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personal data
SURNAME Benitz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Littenweiler
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1979
Place of death Hamburg