Arthur Gunsburg

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Arthur Günsburg (born February 18, 1872 in Vienna , † after 1933) was an Austrian director and producer during the silent film era .

Career

Günsburg was born on February 18, 1872 in Vienna . He lived and worked in Berlin and "had been close to the theater for many years", as Siegfried Jacobsohn wrote about him in his "Schaubühne" in 1912.

Already at the turn of the century he appeared as a lyricist to the music of Béla Laszky . With theater companies he went on guest tours, a. a. to the Netherlands. The German Stage Yearbook 1915 lists him as impresario , and as commercial director he worked at various German theaters.

As an entrepreneur, he ran AG Filmfabrikation in Berlin , later AG Films Arthur Günsburg (Berlin) , which produced entertainment films as early as 1913 and then again from 1918 until the end of the silent film era.

Among them was the two-act series “Krause” with its main actor Karl Neisser , for the episodes “Papa Krause” and “Ganz ohne Krause”, both in 1918, “Krause as a detective” and “Quatsch nicht, Krause”, both in 1919, Leonhard Haskel wrote the manuscript; Walter Formes was the screenwriter only for the last episode “Held Krause” (also 1919) .

Günsburg made a name for himself in 1920 with his artist portrait “The Tragedy of a Great”, also: “Rembrandt and his women”, and in 1922 with his opera adaptation Die Stumme von Portici . His film version of the 1924 novel “Die Glowing Lane” by Paul Rosenhayn , which was shown in Austria under the title “Brennende Straße”, also caused a stir .

Resident director of the AG film fabrication Arthur Günsburg (Berlin) was Lorenz Baetz (also: Bätz). Günsburg himself was primarily active as a producer, but also directed 15 feature films; he was the artistic director of two of them. Otto Kanturek took care of photography for many of his films .

In October 1923 he founded the Günsburg-Film Aktiengesellschaft , was the sole member of the board, but did not own the company as a shareholder. The shareholders included u. a. the director Joseph Delmont . The chairman of the supervisory board was Dr. Georg Freiherr von Eppstein . Eppstein and Günsburg founded Helios-Lichtspiele GmbH in December 1930 .

Arthur Günsburg, because he was of Jewish descent, left Germany after the Nazis came to power .

Filmography

As a director:

  • 1918: Life's slide
  • 1918: Woman against woman, also: The murder on the Neva, also: Under a false name
  • 1919: first love
  • 1920: The tragedy of a great one, also: Rembrandt and his women
  • 1920: decay
  • 1921: Help!
  • 1922: Die Mute von Portici [opera adaptation]
  • 1922: who throws the first stone
  • 1922: The largest train piece in the world
  • 1923: children of today
  • 1924: Spanish gluten
  • 1924: by a million
  • 1925: ballet rats

As a producer

  • 1913: Carriere
  • 1913: Fritze is looking for a job
  • 1913: Laurel tree and begging stick
  • 1913: Between black and blonde, also: The stranger in the Foreign Legion
  • 1918: Passing luck
  • 1918: Life's slide
  • 1918: The marriage of Lea Psantir
  • 1918: Without any Krause (book: Leonhard Haskel)
  • 1918: Papa Krause (book: Leonhard Haskel)
  • 1918: Woman against woman, also: The murder on the Neva, also: Under a false name
  • 1918/19: Mountain sins
  • 1919: Christ
  • 1919: The Fight Below Sea Level [Tom Parker - Detective Drama]
  • 1919: The Republic Medal
  • 1919: The avenger, also: The adventure of the architect Terzky
  • 1919: The daughter of the mountains
  • 1919: first love
  • 1919: Held Krause (book: Walter Formes)
  • 1919: Krause as a detective (book: Leonhard Haskel)
  • 1919: Don't nonsense, Krause (book: Leonhard Haskel)
  • 1920: The bar girl or: The golden pheasant
  • 1920: The darned superstition
  • 1920: The other world
  • 1920: decay
  • 1921: Help!
  • 1922: The largest train piece in the world
  • 1922: The Mute from Portici
  • 1922: who throws the first stone
  • 1923: children of today
  • 1924: The blind man's best friend
  • 1927: The glowing alley

Artistic direction:

  • 1919: Christ
  • 1927: Die Glowende Gasse, in Austria: Brennende Straße (book: Pál Sugar based on the novel by Paul Rosenhayn, directed by Pál Sugar)

Lyricist:

  • Secession chants / 2: The couple in love, a dance duet for a male and a female voice / Albert Béla Laszky. [Text]: Arthur Günsburg. Berlin: Apollo publishing house. Published 1900.

Web links

literature

  • Oksana Bulgakowa (ed.): The unusual adventures of Dr. Mabuse in the land of the Bolsheviks: the book for the film series “Moscow-Berlin”. Verlag Freunde der Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-927876-10-0 , pp. 284–285, 289.
  • Deutscher Bühnenverein, Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Volume 26, FA Günther & Sohn AG, Berlin 1915, pp. 314, 679.
  • Sebastian Hesse: camera eye and nose. The detective in early German cinema. Verlag Stroemfeld-Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2003, ISBN 3-87877-765-5 .
  • Siegfried Jacobson (Ed.): The Schaubühne. Complete reprint of the years 1905–1918. Verlag Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Wolfgang Jacobsen (Hrsg.): Babelsberg: the film studio. 3. Edition. Verlag Argon, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87024-291-4 , pp. 352-353.
  • Alfred Krautz: International directory of cinematographers, set and costume designers in film. Volume 4, Verlag Saur, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-598-21434-0 , pp. 341, 347, 421.
  • Ronny Loewy (Ed.): From Babelsberg to Hollywood. Film emigrants from Nazi Germany: List of exhibits: Exhibition from May 26th to August 9th, 1987. (Series of publications by the German Film Museum Frankfurt). German Film Museum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-88799-010-2 .
  • Helmut Morsbach, Babett Stach: German film posters: 1895–1945. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1992.
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): New theater almanac for 1914. Verlag FA Günther, 1914.
  • Paul Rosenhayn: The glowing alley. Novel. E. Keils Nachf., Leipzig 1924.
  • Georges Sturm: The Circe, the Peacock and the Half-Blood: the films by Fritz Lang 1916–1921. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 61, 241.
  • Marco de Waard: Imagining Global Amsterdam. History, Culture, and Geography in a World City. Verlag Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 978-90-8964-367-4 , p. 164, note 21. (English)
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German Stage Yearbook 1915 on p. 314 gives its address as “Wilmersdorf, Prinzregenten-Str. 66 “
  2. ↑ "The Schaubühne", publisher: Siegfried Jacobsohn. Volume 8, Part 1, p. 120.
  3. ↑ cf. “Die Schaubühne”, Volume 8, Part 1, p. 8.
  4. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1915, p. 314.
  5. ↑ z. B. at the Komödienhaus in Berlin, at the New Theater in Frankfurt am Main, cf. “Die Schaubühne”, Volume 9, p. 161; New theater almanac for 1914, p. 775.
  6. ↑ also: Neißer, born July 2, 1882, died August 28, 1933, in Berlin. Also directed, e.g. B. in the films “3000 Mark reward” (1918), “The view into the abyss” (1919) and “The secret of the factory owner Henderson” (1919, also screenplay), cf. IMDb [1]
  7. ↑ cf. GECD # 31951: Don't nonsense, Krause (1919). Production company: AG (probably Günzburg). Actor: Karl Neisser. Film length 477 meters, 2 acts. Censorship Police, Berlin: Jugendfrei (No. 43016); on this film and its main character the meanwhile proverbial Berlin expression “nonsense, Krause!” go back.
  8. ↑ cf. GECD # 24723
  9. ↑ after the opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1828), cf. myheimat.de [2]
  10. ↑ the film was initially to be banned by a censorship notice of October 7, 1927, cf. B.16842_1927 [3] , but the prohibition was withdrawn after editing requirements for violence and sex scenes by the senior inspection authority with a decision of October 12, 1927 and reduced to a youth ban, cf. O.00930_1927 [4]
  11. ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 32882
  12. ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 45365
  13. ↑ cf. Loewy p. 12.
  14. ↑ Rembrandt biography, with Carl de Vogt in the leading role, cf. steffi-line [5] : "Also worth mentioning is his role as" Rembrandt "in Arthur Günsburg's" The Tragedy of a Great "(1920)", and Marco de Waard: "There is at least one earlier Rembrandt bio for the screen: Die Tragedy of a Great, directed by Arthur Günsburg (1920) ”  ; Krautz p. 347, Georges Sturm p. 61, cinema poster by Josef Fenneker near Morsbach-Stach p. 106.
  15. ↑ cf. Krautz p. 347.
  16. ↑ Sound image with organ and choir singing, cf. GECD # 19886: Singing with sound images: Church choir Alexander Kiesslich, musicians: Martin Grabert [organ]; on the term sound image cf. Wedel p. 58
  17. ↑ cf. Hesse p. 384 f., The detective Tom Parker played Heinrich Peer
  18. ↑ with the participation of Denggs Bauerntheater, Tegernsee, cf. GECD # 35375 (di Eggern am Tegernsee, Bauerntheater Michel Dengg, founded 1903, cf. winkler-kreuth.de [6] )
  19. ↑ cf. difarchiv [7] , Illustr. Film courier released at [8]
personal data
SURNAME Gunsburg, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director and producer during the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1933