Arndt von Rautenfeld

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Arndt von Rautenfeld in Chile in 1938/39 while shooting the film Ein Robinson by Arnold Fanck

Arndt von Rautenfeld (born April 26, 1906 in Dorpat , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire, † 1996 allegedly in Berlin ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Arndt von Rautenfeld came from the German-Baltic noble family Berens von Rautenfeld . He was the second child of Viktor von Rautenfeld (1876–1935) and Cara von Rautenfeld, b. Baroness of Loudon (1879–1960). He was the older, largely unknown brother of the cameraman Klaus von Rautenfeld . After completing an apprenticeship in photography and camera technology, he made his first contacts with the cinema industry during the transition from silent to sound film. In 1932 he got a role in the film The Song of the Black Mountains , in which Klaus had also been involved.

Up until the beginning of the Second World War, he assisted various cameramen, including Georg Bruckbauer and Albert Benitz , but also his brother. In the winter of 1938/39 Arnold Fanck took him with him on the “Bavaria Fanck Chile Expedition” to South America ( Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia ). There he was involved in the outdoor shots for the film A Robinson - Diary of a Sailor and made friends with his eldest son Arnold Ernst Fanck , who worked as a camera assistant and photographer in the production. In the fall of 1939 Luis Trenker brought him for the recordings of The Fire Devil .

Shortly after the war, Arndt von Rautenfeld initially photographed several short documentaries, but he was rarely hired as a cameraman for feature-length films. Since the late 1950s, now in the service of the SFB , he has only been behind the camera for television films.

Filmography

as a cameraman for cultural, documentary, short and full-length cinema and television films

  • 1947: work under water (also directing)
  • 1947: District Resident Officer
  • 1948: A School in Cologne
  • 1949: The young lady and the vagabond
  • 1949: The Caputh Bridge
  • 1951: Berlin comes back
  • 1951: In the beginning there was action
  • 1951: It doesn't work without Gisela
  • 1952: The Battle of the Tertia
  • 1953: The girl with the sulfur sticks
  • 1953: Listen to the music
  • 1954: Everything for you, my darling
  • 1957: The world is building Berlin
  • 1958: As you like it
  • 1965: Romulus and Remus
  • 1966: Live like a prince
  • 1966: White gives up
  • 1967: The Magic Mountain
  • 1969: Mister Barnett

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 581.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1358.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Freiherr von Bothmer : Moskauer Tagebuch 1918. Ed. Gernot Böhme, arr. by Winfried Baumgart . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2010, p. 28, note 91.Who 's who in Germany. Vol. 4, part 2. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1972, p. 1172.
personal data
SURNAME Rautenfeld, Arndt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1996
Place of death unsure: Berlin