Anton Mülleneisen

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Anton "Toni" Mülleneisen (born May 7, 1891 in Cologne-Deutz ; † in the 20th century ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Mülleneisen attended school in Cologne up to secondary school leaving certificate and was then trained as a landscape and portrait photographer by court photographer Rudolphi in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for 3½ years . In 1912 he joined the film industry and over the next two years learned the craft of film in the Vitascope Film's copy and development facility in Berlin-Weißensee .

Anton Mülleneisen, who was mostly called Toni in the industry , has been the head cameraman for feature films since 1914 . After his debut at Harry Piel , he photographed several dramas by and with Fern Andra in 1915 and also claims to have photographed numerous comedies with Anna Müller-Lincke . Afterwards, Mülleneisen, according to his own statement, served "[four] years in the field and front as an aviator photographer". Film recordings have taken him to Romania , France and Macedonia .

In September 1919, Mülleneisen married Emmy Mercker and, in the early 1920s, continued his film career with Hubert Moest's Moest-Film . His only significant work was to be the Wilhelm Tell film, which he supervised in 1923 in terms of camera technology alongside Guido Seeber . In the following year, Mülleneisen's film career ended and he turned to scientific and documentary film. He subsequently made nature and medical recordings and also worked as a commercial cameraman in sound films.

Most recently, in the early 1940s, Anton “Toni” Mülleneisen was only able to find employment as a camera assistant. His last known place of residence shortly before the end of the war was in Berlin-Charlottenburg . After that his track is lost.

Filmography

  • 1914: The mysterious nightshade
  • 1915: Mysterious powers
  • 1915: A frost fell on the spring night
  • 1915: A moth flew to the light
  • 1921: The room with the seven doors, two parts
  • 1921: The Virgin of Cynasty
  • 1921: The chaste sinner
  • 1922: The Franconian song
  • 1923: Happiness only lives in the mountains
  • 1923: The sun in St. Moritz
  • 1923: Wilhelm Tell
  • 1924: Bonded souls
  • 1924: The sunny fairy tale of happiness
  • 1924: Love is the power of women
  • 1924: The dying earth

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 128 f.
  • International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 4 Germany (from the beginnings to 1945). Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1984, p. 261.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to Mühsam / Jacobsohn and Krautz, which appears most likely in his biography. His Reichsfilmkammerakte (RFK) names the year 1896. The year 1881, which is circulating on the Internet (filmportal.de, IMDB), is in any case not applicable
  2. ↑ according to RFK, Jacobson / Mühsam and Krautz name the rather doubtful year 1910
  3. ↑ in Jacobson / Mühsam he wrote: "all Anna Müller-Lincke films (comedies)"
  4. ↑ according to Jacobson / Mühsam, p. 129
personal data
SURNAME Mülleneisen, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mülleneisen, Toni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Deutz
DATE OF DEATH 20th century