Albert Schattmann

Albert Oskar Schattmann (born February 2, 1891 in Herrnstadt , † December 30, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Born in Silesia , he came to cinematography as early as 1909. Albert Oskar Schattmann initially trained as a trainee at a film copier and then trained as a recording operator (cameraman) at the Vitagraph production company .

Working as head cameraman since 1911, Schattmann mainly photographed the early twists and turns and comedies of cinema veteran Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers up to his retirement from film in the mid-1920s, interrupted only by his front-line assignment in 1915/16, as Schattmann as a photo reporter on the eastern and southeastern theaters of war had been ordered.

Since the late silent film era, Schattmann had considerable difficulty getting orders to land. Most recently he worked with colleague and veteran camera Karl Hasselmann . In 1936 he was one of several dozen image operators behind the camera for Leni Riefenstahl's two-part Olympic film.

Almost impoverished in the 1930s and 1940s, the now-forgotten silent film pioneer tried several times to obtain financial support from the state.

Filmography

• 1913: dissonances of life
• 1913: His maid
• 1913: The honor of the house
• 1914: The second mother
• 1914: General von Berning
• 1914: Otto as a servant
• 1914: Otto marries
• 1917: The bird in the cage
• 1917: The cricket
• 1917: Baroness Chamberlain
• 1919: In the Bahnwärterhäusl
• 1919: Marion Bach's love
• 1920: Hasemann's daughters
• 1922: Hallig Hooge
• 1923: Troubled honeymoon
• 1924: My Leopold
• 1925: The gentleman without an apartment
• 1925: The second mother
• 1926: Derby
• 1926: The poor on the street
• 1927: Richthofen, the red knight of the air
• 1930: Two Morals
• 1930: lyre and sword (short film)
• 1936: Olympia , 2 parts

Web links

• Albert Schattmann at filmportal.de
• Albert Schattmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)