Arnold Pressburger
Arnold Pressburger (born August 27, 1885 in Pressburg , Austria-Hungary , † February 17, 1951 in Hamburg ) was an Austrian film producer .
life and work
Arnold Pressburger moved to Vienna in 1910 and founded the Philipp & Pressburger Allgemeine Kinematographen- und Film-Gesellschaft together with Siegmund Philipp in 1911 . The rental company quickly became the largest in the monarchy.
From 1915 onwards, the company began to make films, including Charlie, the Wonder Monkey ( Joe May , 1915) and Der Glücksschneider ( Hans Otto Löwenstein , 1916). In addition, Pressburger worked for the Austro-Hungarian Sascha-Messter-Filmfabrik GmbH from 1916, which bought Philipp & Pressburger in 1918, was converted to Sascha Film-Industrie AG and produced around 100 films for the Pressburger by 1925.
It was in this environment that Pressburger also got to know the writer and screenwriter Karl Gustav Vollmoeller , who was celebrating international success with his two films The Miracle and Venetian Night . The films Prinz und Bettelknabe (1920), Lords of the Seas and A Sunken World (both 1921/22) resulted from the collaboration with director Alexander Korda .
Mihali Kertész, who later achieved international fame as Michael Curtiz , directed, under Pressburgers production management, The Lady with the Black Glove (1919), The Lady with the Sunflowers , The Stars of Damascus (both 1920), Ms. Dorothy's Confession (1921), Sodom and Gomorrah (1922), The young Medardus (1923), The slave queen (1924/32) and The golden butterfly (1926).
In 1926 Arnold Pressburger went to Berlin, where he produced GW Pabst's film Man Doesn't Play with Love (1926) for the FPG Film-Produktions-Gemeinschaft mbH . In 1930 he left the FPG and founded Allianz-Tonfilm, which produced ten films by 1931, including the Carmine Gallone film Die singende Stadt (1930, with Brigitte Helm and Jan Kiepura ), Hans Behrendt's historical drama Danton (1930/31, with Fritz Kortner and Gustaf Gründgens ), Fritz Kortner's directorial debut Der brave Sünder (1931, with Max Pallenberg and Heinz Rühmann ) and Phil Jutzi's famous Döblin film adaptation Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931, with Heinrich George and Maria Bard ). From 1931 Pressburger also worked for Ufa , for which he produced Anatole Litvak's film fun play Never Again Love (1931, with Harry Liedtke and Lilian Harvey ). During this time he worked for the first time with Gregor Rabinowitsch .
Both left Ufa in 1932 and together founded the Cine-Allianz Tonfilm GmbH , which in the following years produced multilingual music films with important directors such as Marcel Carné , René Clair , Arnold Fanck , Carmine Gallone , Fritz Lang , Max Ophüls , Reinhold Schünzel and Detlef Sierck and produced with international stars like Marta Eggerth , Willi Forst , Brigitte Helm and Jan Kiepura. Pressburger and Rabinowitsch were Jews and in the course of the " Aryanization " of the German film industry, the Cine Alliance was transferred to a liquidation company in 1935; The expropriation followed in 1937. Rabinowitsch continued his work in France, Pressburger went via Great Britain to France and from there in 1941 to Hollywood , where he again founded his own film production company - Arnold Pressburger Films. The company only produced four films, but their directors were world-renowned: The Shanghai Gesture ( Josef von Sternberg , 1941), Die Henker (Fritz Lang, 1943), It Happened Tomorrow (René Clair, 1944) and A Scandal in Paris ( Douglas Sirk = Detlef Sierck, 1946). During the filming of Peter Lorre's masterpiece The Lost , Arnold Pressburger died in Hamburg as a result of a brain hemorrhage.
Arnold Pressburger was the father of the film producer Fred Pressburger (1915-1998).
Filmography
As a producer, unless otherwise stated:
Silent films
- 1913: King Menelaus in the cinema
- 1915: The Fool of Fate
- 1915: Charly, the wonder monkey
- 1916: Vienna at war
- 1916: Sami, the seafarer
- 1916: Moritz Wasserstrahl as a strategist
- 1916: Yesterday still on proud horses
- 1916: The Nagger
- 1916: The lucky tailor
- 1917: We and the others
- 1917: What love can do
- 1917: For a woman
- 1917: War in the Eternal Snow
- 1917: Fred Roll . Part 2
- 1917: He avenges his mother-in-law
- 1917: He must have it
- 1917: The golden weir
- 1917: The love of a blind man
- 1917: The new Tantalus
- 1917: The won trial
- 1917: The stingy Hannes
- 1917: The way to peace
- 1917: The Duchess's jewelry
- 1917: The man without a head
- 1917: The man in the mask
- 1917: The worm of conscience
- 1917: The theft
- 1917: A dead man's letter
- 1917: Towards peace
- 1917: The waning heart
- 1917: Albert gets divorced
- 1918: Brushes Putzi causes mischief and a marriage
- 1918: Brush cleaning rendevouzelt
- 1918: Frank Boyer's servant
- 1918: The green diamond
- 1918: the martyr of his heart
- 1918: The power of love, the victory of the right
- 1918: The new life
- 1918: old and young spirits
- 1918: Austria-Hungary. Artillery was on the western front
- 1918: Willibald becomes a millionaire
- 1918: Viennese fashion show
- 1918: whoever laughs last
- 1918: When love comes to the dog
- 1918: His brave wife
- 1918: My daughter: your daughter
- 1918: Lena's noble acquaintance
- 1918: your best role
- 1918: He's having fun
- 1918: Don Juan's last adventure
- 1918: The two Meier
- 1918: The cautious capitalist
- 1918: The last heir to Lassa
- 1918: The road to wealth
- 1918: The Artist's Tribute
- 1918: The stronger one
- 1918: The Mandarin
- 1918: The other me
- 1918: The night camp at Mischli-Mischloch
- 1918: The Blue Lion House
- 1918: the baby
- 1918: At the gate of life
- 1919: two worlds
- 1919: A dangerous game
- 1919: the spider
- 1919: The obstacle marriage
- 1919: The lady with the black glove
- 1919: The cancer
- 1919: The Popinoff case
- 1919: The burglar in tails
- 1919: Settlement among accomplices
- 1920: The hunt for happiness
- 1920: Prince and beggar boy
- 1920: Mrs. Tutti Frutti
- 1920: Madame Schiebary
- 1920: dollar blessing
- 1920: The stars of Damascus. 1. A woman in the desert
- 1920: The stars of Damascus. 2. The hostage of God
- 1920: The Lady with the Sunflowers
- 1920: The failed legacy
- 1921: Cherchez la femme
- 1921: Paths of Terror
- 1921: Well of the Spirits
- 1921: Jack's secret
- 1921: Fred Roll, the rubber king's secretary
- 1921: Mrs. Dorothy's confession
- 1921: The marriage cripple
- 1921: The excursion to bliss
- 1922: Lords of the Seas
- 1922: A sunken world
- 1922: Gypsy love
- 1922: Sodom and Gomorrah
- 1922: Serge Panine
- 1923: Rumpelstiltskin
- 1923: nameless
- 1923: Miss Mrs.
- 1923: The last princess
- 1923: The young Medardus
- 1924: Salambo
- 1924: Harun al Raschid
- 1924: The slave queen
- 1924: The revenge of the pharaohs
- 1924: The Pension Göhre
- 1925: The Toys of Paris
- 1926: You don't play with love
- 1926: Single daughters
- 1926: The golden butterfly
- 1927: The Queen Was in the Parlor
- 1927: My life for yours
- 1927: The famous woman
- 1927: The happy vineyard
- 1929: The strangler
Sound films
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literature
- Michael W. Esser : Producer, Producteur, Producer. Arnold Pressburger's international career. In: Sibylle M. Sturm, Arthur Wohlgemuth (Red.): Hello? Berlin? Ici Paris! German-French film relations 1918–1939. edition text + kritik, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88377-538-X , pp. 101–110 ( A CineGraph book ).
- Jan Distelmeyer (Red.): Allies for the film. Arnold Pressburger, Gregor Rabinowitsch and the Cine Alliance. edition text + kritik, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88377-779-X , ( A CineGraph book ).
- Hans M. Bock (Ed.): CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. 8 parts. edition text + kritik, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86916-090-0 .
- Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 399 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Pressburger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arnold Pressburger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- filmportal.de film data
- cinegraph.de Book review: Allies for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Riedl (Ed.): Vienna, City of Jews. Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05315-8 , p. 395 (biography part).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pressburger, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1951 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |