Arnold Ernst Fanck

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Arnold Ernst Fanck with film director and producer Fritz Aly at the Bernina Pass , around 1958

Arnold Ernst Fanck (born October 10, 1919 in Berlin ; † March 24, 1994 in Lauf an der Pegnitz , Middle Franconia ), also Arnold Fanck junior, was a German film actor ( child actor ), cameraman and photographer .

family

Arnold junior sitting at the Welte Mignon wing, watched by his famous father Arnold Fanck , Villa Am Sandwerder 39 , Berlin-Nikolassee , 1934

Arnold Ernst Fanck was the eldest son of mountain, sports, skiing and nature film pioneer Arnold Fanck . He was born into his father's premarital relationship with his mother's domestic servant, Karolina Ida Fanck, Sophie Meder (later married to Giuseppe Marinucci). His father married for the first time on May 20, 1920 (in Zurich). His first wife, the chemist Natalia "Natuschka" Anna (born July 9, 1887 in Nałęczów near Lublin , Poland , † July 1, 1928), née Zaremba, a former fellow student, was therefore not the mother of Arnold junior. His biological father is said to have adopted him for this reason. From his father's second marriage to Elisabeth “Lisa” (* 1908), born in 1934, Arnold jun. a much younger half-brother, Hans-Joachim (1935–2015).

Arnold Ernst Fanck married Gerda Martha Horvath on August 15, 1951 in Berlin-Wedding (born May 16, 1923 in Berlin; † October 5, 2014 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, Middle Franconia), née Bastian. This marriage resulted in two children, Matthias (* 1951) and Katharina (* 1954). His son, a graphic designer, is also a photographer, filmmaker and writer.

school

The three close friends Arnold Fanck junior, Werner Mehr and Max Kahn (3rd, 4th and 6th from the left) in gray knickerbockers on the snow-covered area of ​​the school community in Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest , around Easter 1934

After attending a Berlin elementary school, Arnold junior attended the Free School Community in Wickersdorf near Saalfeld from 1930 to 1938 , a music-oriented reform educational country house in the Thuringian Forest . There he became very close friends with the Magdeburg-born doctor's son Max Kahn (1919–1982), who was born in Magdeburg and called “Maxe” by Arnold junior, who attended this boarding school from 1930 to 1934. Arnold junior later formed a close friendship with the one year younger son of the director, Werner Mehr (* 1920), who went to school in Wickersdorf from 1934 to 1938. Werner Mehr and Arnold junior passed their school-leaving exams in the school community in the same year . Arnold junior reunited with his two friends (at least / at the latest) in the 1970s in Wickersdorf.

In the late summer of 1933, thirteen-year-old Arnold junior accused his teacher Otto Peltzer of sexual abuse. For this purpose, a protocol from the school management (signed by school principal Paul Döring and supervisory board member Jaap Kool ) with the student's verbatim statement has been received, which was published in identical excerpts in 2009, 2015 and 2017. In the same year, the FSG student Algirdas Savickis also accused his teacher Peltzer of sexual abuse.

The former FSG student Hans-Heinz Sanden (1914–2003), who was a boarding school student in Wickersdorf from 1928 to 1932, a nephew of the local politician Bruno Asch and son of his brother Hans , recalled in his autobiography published in 1990 the “ Eros Paidekos , dem a lot of homage was paid in this school ”, specifically sexual assaults by Peltzer and other teachers in the immediate vicinity or circle of fans of Gustav Wyneken .

Group of pupils from the school community from Wickersdorf during an excursion - Arnold Ernst Fanck, front left, around 1934/35

Despite the massive interference by this teacher with the personal autonomy of his underage pupil, Arnold junior decided to stay in the Wickersdorf school community until his final exam . Up until old age he often spoke positively of his time there - “with shining eyes”. Apparently he was very impressed by the events of the school choir and the school orchestra, the craft classes (blacksmithing and carpentry) as well as the longer journeys and shorter excursions, for example to the fairy grottoes .

Even the former headmaster and spirit rector of the performing game in the Free School Community , Martin Luserke , was mentioned frequently by Arnold junior, although he had never seen him there himself. As early as 1924/25, Luserke led a group of colleagues and students from three FSG comradeships after a latent dissent with Wyneken into a secession and founded the school by the sea with them on the North Sea island of Juist . The FSG experienced a number of such secessions because of Wyneken, with that of Luserke being by far the most significant, because according to various teachers ( Alfred Ehrentreich , Hans-Windekilde Jannasch ) he had a decisive influence on the Free School Community and its atmosphere . Arnold junior had works by Luserke, for example Tanil and Tak (seven Indian legends), on his bookshelf all his life.

Act

The four year old Arnold jun. as an actor in the silent film Der Berg des Schicksals , shot in the Dolomites , 1923/24
The four year old Arnold jun. with Erna Morena in the silent film Der Berg des Schicksals , 1923/24
Arnold Ernst Fanck as camera assistant while filming Ein Robinson - Diary of a Sailor , 1938/39
Arnold Ernst Fanck in front of the Robinson cave on the occasion of the filming of Ein Robinson - Diary of a Sailor , 1938/39
Screenwriter and producer Rolf Meyer (left) with Arnold Ernst Fanck (right), on the return trip from the filming of Ein Robinson - Diary of a Sailor on board the luxury liner TS Bremen , spring 1939

Already at the age of four, Arnold junior was acting in front of the film camera in 1923/24 in the silent film Der Berg des Schicksals , which his father shot in the Dolomites for the Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH based in Freiburg im Breisgau . In addition to Arnold Fanck, Sepp Allgeier , Eugen Hamm , Herbert Oettel and Hans Schneeberger also acted as cameramen . Arnold junior embodied the son of the mountaineer playing the main role ( Hannes Schneider ) and his wife ( Erna Morena ). He was also the alter ego of the then 31-year-old acting debutant Luis Trenker , who portrayed this mountain climber's son as a young adult in the same film. Arnold junior can be seen in several scenes, including climbing the chimney at home, which the contemporary film critic Siegfried Kracauer referred to in the renowned Frankfurter Zeitung .

Immediately after passing his matriculation examination , on September 30, 1938, 18-year-old Arnold junior was given the opportunity to meet his famous father with the "Bavaria-Fanck-Chile-Expedition" while he was shooting the film Ein Robinson - Diary of a Sailor from Bavaria Filmkunst “To accompany you to South America. The trip led to the Juan Fernández Islands , Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia . His stepmother Lisa and his three-year-old half-brother Hans-Joachim were also there, as a film actor. A historically documented material from 1915 was to be filmed and transformed with a fictional reference to the present.

Through his father and the cameramen Albert Benitz and Hans Ertl , Arnold Ernst received an intensive insight into camera work and image design. As a camera assistant and photographer, he was allowed to participate in the film production. His father noted in writing: “My eldest son Arnold, whom I also took with me to train as a cameraman, lodged himself with the cameraman Rautenfeld in the so-called Robinson cave. It was of course a wonderfully romantic experience for the boy. The original Robinson certainly lived here once, but probably only for a short time. It was only a few meters deep, was right on the sea, so much too windy for a long stay. "

Cinematographer Sepp Allgeier was later involved in this film production in the studio. Arnold junior developed a long-term friendship with Albert Benitz's camera assistant, Arndt von Rautenfeld .

Around 400 of the photos taken by Arnold junior from this cinematic expedition trip have been preserved. He had made these recordings with two cameras, probably a so-called "Tropen-Nettel" ( Contessa-Nettel-Werk , Stuttgart) for 9 x 12 cm image plates and a 6 x 6 box (classic medium format). As a camera assistant, he worked on set with Debrie Parvo film cameras.

The Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , Joseph Goebbels , did not like Arnold Fanck's uncut footage; he saw in the Robinson figure depicted an anti-social loner who was contrary to the National Socialist ideal of the propagated “ national community ”. By the time it premiered in Munich in June 1940, the originally artistically designed work in front of a spectacular natural backdrop in the studio and editing room turned into a profane propaganda film for the German Navy .

Current affairs had a negative impact on Arnold Ernst Fanck's aspired career. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Air Force and assigned to Air Defense Command 9 . He was deployed in 1940 during the western campaign in the Luftgau Belgium-Northern France and then in the Luftgau western France for airspace defense on the flak . From January 1942 he had to take part in the Russian campaign with his unit, which had been renamed the 9th Flak Division (motorized) in September 1941 . As a result, he was involved in the Battle of Kharkov in Ukraine in May 1942 , during which his unit, which was assigned to the 2nd Army and the 6th Army , distinguished itself and was mentioned in the Wehrmacht report. In the summer of 1942, his unit was involved in the German summer offensive ( Fall Blau ) and cooperated with the 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army . At the age of 23 he lost a leg during the Battle of Stalingrad . The seriously wounded man was transported to several field hospitals one after the other , an ordeal that he barely survived.

He remained closely connected to photography throughout his life. In the immediate post-war period he worked as a freelance photographer in Berlin. Later he worked in Bendestorf, south of Hamburg, for the production company Junge Film-Union run by Rolf Meyer , whom he met in 1938 during the “Bavaria Fanck Chile Expedition” and probably became friends with him. From around 1954 he worked with his partners, the Black Forest director and cameraman Fritz Aly ( Ewiges Südtirol ) and the reporter and photographer Leif Geiges in Freiburg im Breisgau . From around 1959/60 until his retirement, Arnold junior was a factory photographer at a company that had specialized in the manufacture of industrial ceramics. He worked in their branch in Lauf an der Pegnitz in Central Franconia . The Steatit Magnesia AG ( STEMAG ) was taken over by Rosenthal during his activity and thus operated as Rosenthal Stemag Technische Keramik GmbH from 1971 and as Rosenthal Technik AG from 1974 .

In 1964, a series of his photographs of crystals and minerals were published in a book that was reprinted in 1978. As a hobby, Arnold Ernst Fanck collected attractive stones for decades. This collection has been preserved to this day.

In 1989 he worked alongside Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker in the film production Wer war Arnold Fanck? of the North German Radio .

He died at the age of 74 and was buried like his wife in the cemetery in Lauf an der Pegnitz.

Publications

  • with Rudolf Metz : face of precious stones. Minerals - Crystals . Chr.Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1964 and 1978

Videos

There are two short film clips on YouTube in which Arnold Ernst Fanck can be seen repeatedly; in the credits of the opening credits he is referred to as "His [the mountaineer's] son ​​as a child ... Arnold Fanck jun.".

A video from 1996 shows Arnold Fanck jun. in the credits from:

Web links

Commons : Arnold Ernst Fanck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Fanck, Arnold Ernst . In: Deutsche Biographie , on: deutsche-biographie.de
  2. ^ Arnold Ernst Fanck , on: filmportal.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Written information from the private archive of Arnold Ernst Fanck's son Matthias Fanck, email from April 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Arnold Ernst Fanck's birth mother Sophie Mavinucci Meder was noted on the registration card entry for Arnold Ernst Fanck at the Freiburg im Breisgau residents' registration office on April 24, 1954. Quoted from: Stadtarchiv Freiburg im Breisgau, Anita Hafner, July 13, 2020
  5. ^ A b c Renate Liessem-Breinlinger: Arnold Fanck . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien , Vol. 2. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-17-014117-9 , pp. 121-123.
  6. ↑ Facsimile of the marriage register entry of the marriage between Fanck and Zaremba from May 20, 1920 in Zurich, signature: VIII.Ba1.:2.168. Marriage register A, Volume II, No. 954, Zurich 1920, p. 491, transmitted by the Zurich City Archives, Dr. Nicola Behrens, July 10, 2020
  7. ↑ Matthias Fanck , on: imdb.com
  8. ^ Matthias Fanck: Arnold Fanck. White Hell - White Intoxication. Mountain films and mountain pictures 1909–1939 , AS-Verlag und Buchkonzept AG, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-909111-66-4 ; Book review. In: CineGraph Babelsberg, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Film Research e. V., on: filmblatt.de
  9. ↑ a b Directory of students of the Free School Community of Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
  10. ^ Standesamt Charlottenburg von Berlin, death register 1982, P Rep. 559 No. 839, 2971, p. 82.
  11. ↑ Max Joseph Julius Kahn (* July 21, 1919 in Magdeburg; † November 2, 1982 in Berlin) was the son of the (Jewish) doctor Dr. med. Julius Kahn (born December 1, 1885 in Altenbamberg , Rhineland-Palatinate; † April 1, 1939 in Magdeburg) and his wife Helene Marie Luise (born March 19, 1895 in Schönebeck , Saxony-Anhalt; † March 3, 1948 in Magdeburg) , born goose. Quotation from: German minority population census , May 17, 1939. This population census recorded personal data on “blood descent” on a “supplementary card” to be handed in in a sealed envelope and thus also persons who, according to the First Ordinance to the Reich Citizenship Act, were classified as “Jewish” (contrary to “German-blooded”) were classified as “valid Jew”. - After attending primary school in Magdeburg, Max moved to the Free School Community in Wickersdorf in 1930 . During the NS time as a so-called "half-breed first degree" ( " half-Jew ") classified blonde and blue-eyed Max Kahn suffered on 17 February 1934, Wickersdorf by his classmates Walter Helmuth Külz (born July 15, 1918 in Munich, † 1986 in San Francisco) a bullet in the neck. Quoted from: Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vol. 259, No. 22, Obituary Listing, June 10, 1988, pp. 3341-3346; Quoted from: Chronicle of the Free School Community Wickersdorf , entry from February 17, 1934 (according to Prof. Dr. Peter Dudek, April 10, 2020). - Walter Külz decided to become a doctor and emigrated to the United States in 1953. Quoted from: Petition for Naturalization No. 144928 , District Court of the United States of San Francisco, California; Arrival on June 29, 1953 by SS Maasdam ( Holland-Amerika Lijn ) in New York City, Alien Registration No. A8 505 589. - After leaving the school community in Wickersdorf in 1934, Max Kahn trained as a motor vehicle mechanic. In 1939, his father died of a tumor at the age of only 53. Quoted from: Death book of the registry office Magdeburg, No. 748/1939, April 3, 1939. - In 1940/41 Max served as a driver for the mountain troops in the Wehrmacht . On February 23, 1944, he was 24 years old because of “traffic”. With]. Jüdin ”(“ Rassenschande ”) arrested and by the State Police Headquarters (StaPo LSt) in Magdeburg initially to the Gestapo detention center Magdeburg-Rothensee and on May 27, 1944 as a political prisoner (prisoner number 9754) to the“ protective custody camp ”of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar deported. Quoted according to “Prisoner Personnel Card” of KL Buchenwald from May 27, 1944. - From there he was employed as a car fitter due to his professional training in the locksmith's shop of the German equipment works (DAW), an armaments company of the SS . During the night he had to repair and maintain the DAW vehicles so that they were ready for use again the following day. After about a year he was freed from Buchenwald by the approaching US Army and formally released from camp detention on May 7, 1945. Quoted according to Order for disposal of inmates from the Military Government of Germany dated May 7, 1945. - On this occasion, in addition to his mother, he gave the Magdeburg-based doctor and former SPD city councilor Dr. med. Ernst Thesing . Quoted according to Questionnaire for concentration camp inmates (Concentration Camp Inmates Questionnaire) of the Military Government of Germany dated April 28, 1945. - In 1948, his mother died of suicide at the age of only 52 . Quoted from: Death book of the registry office Magdeburg, No. 400/1948, March 6, 1948. - Max Kahn died at the age of 63.
  12. ↑ Peter Dudek : "Experimental field for a new youth". The Free School Community of Wickersdorf 1906–1945 . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7815-1681-6 , pp. 390ff.
  13. ^ Archives of the Free School Community of Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German Youth Movement , Ludwigstein Castle , Witzenhausen , Hesse.
  14. ↑ Peter Dudek: "Experimental field for a new youth". The Free School Community of Wickersdorf 1906–1945 . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7815-1681-6 , p. 396.
  15. ↑ Peter Dudek: "The Oedipus from Kurfürstendamm - A Wickersdorfer student and his mother murder 1930" . Publishing house Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2026-4 , pp. 41-42.
  16. ↑ Peter Dudek: “You are and will remain the old abstract ideologue!” The reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken (1875-1864). A biography . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7815-2176-6 , p. 332.
  17. ↑ Peter Dudek: “Everything is a good average”? Impressions of the student body of the FSG Wickersdorf 1906–1945 . In: JHB 23 - Yearbook for Historical Educational Research 2017 . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7815-2237-4 , pp. 234-279 (citation: p. 236).
  18. ^ Gesellschaft für Exilforschung / Society for Exile Studies (Hrsg.): Newsletter / Newsletter: 1984 to 1993 with complete register . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-1109-5910-9 , p. 214.
  19. ↑ Lucas Lchtenberg: Mij ​​krijgen ze niet levend. De zelfmoorden van mei 1940 . Uitgeverij Balans, Amsterdam 2017, ISBN 978-9-4600-3955-3 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Heinz Sanden: The flaw. A youth between races and classes . Universitas Verlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 978-3-8004-1225-9 , p. 81.
  21. ↑ Alfred Ehrentreich: School reform experienced 50 years - experiences of a Berlin pedagogue (= studies on educational reform, 11). Edited by Wolfgang Keim , Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 978-3-8204-7790-0 , p. 226.
  22. ↑ Hans-Windekilde Jannasch: Martin Luserke . In: Spätlese - Encounters with Contemporaries . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, on: luserke.net
  23. ↑ Martin Luserke: Tanil and Tak . In: Tent Stories. Strange adventures that were told about in the tent and by the fire (= The books of the school by the sea, first volume ), Angelsachsen-Verlag , Bremen 1925.
  24. ↑ The mountain of fate , on: filmportal.de
  25. ^ Siegfried Kracauer: Mountains, clouds, people . In: Frankfurter Zeitung (Stadt-Blatt), April 9, 1925.
  26. ↑ a b c d Matthias Fanck: Mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanck. Forgotten star . In: Der Spiegel, EINESTAGES , October 11, 2015, on: spiegel.de
  27. ^ Arnold Ernst Fanck , on: IMDb.com
  28. ↑ Photo: Arnold Fanck junior in the Robinson cave . In: Matthias Fanck: Mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanck. Forgotten star . In: Der Spiegel, EINESTAGES , October 11, 2015, on: spiegel.de
  29. ^ Felix Freier: DuMont's Lexicon of Photography. Technology - history - art . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-7701-2982-9 .
  30. ↑ Arndt von Rautenfeld, who was friends with Arnold Fanck junior, during the filming of Ein Robinson 1938/39 on a Debrie Parvo film camera. In: Matthias Fanck: Mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanck. Forgotten star . In: Der Spiegel, EINESTAGES , October 11, 2015, on: spiegel.de
  31. ^ Arnold Fanck . In: Deutsches Filminstitut, on: deutsches-filminstitut.de
  32. ↑ High Command of the Wehrmacht (Ed.): Wehrmacht Report , May 21, 1942
  33. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : When the victory on the Volga seemed within reach . In: Die Welt , September 20, 2012. welt.de
  34. ↑ Ewiges Südtirol , on: fernsehserien.de
  35. ^ Fritz Aly , on: filmportal.de
  36. ^ Arnold Ernst Fanck , on: worldcat.org
  37. ↑ Who was Arnold Fanck? , on: filmportal.de
  38. ^ Gravesite Arnold Ernst Fanck and Gerda Martha Fanck, b. Bastian, Department 28, No. 15, quoted from: Friedhofsverwaltung Lauf an der Pegnitz, Markus Pförtner, July 16, 2020
  39. ↑ In ice and snow - Arnold Fanck , on: karlstorkino.de
personal data
SURNAME Fanck, Arnold Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fanck, Arnold junior; Fanck, Arnold jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actor, child actor, camera assistant and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1994
Place of death Lauf an der Pegnitz , ( Middle Franconia )