Arthur Pohl
Arthur Pohl , also Artur Pohl (born March 22, 1900 in Görlitz , † June 15, 1970 in Berlin ; born Arthur Georg Otto Pohl ) was a German set designer , director and screenwriter .
Life
He was the son of typesetter and newspaper editor Luis Otto Gustav Pohl and his wife Lina Maria, née Schmidt. After attending the community school in Görlitz, he did a bank apprenticeship and studied with a scholarship from the bank from 1918 to 1919 at the Art Academy in Breslau , then at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin .
Pohl became a painter and worked from 1923 to 1927 at the Hessisches Landestheater Darmstadt as a set designer . In 1927 he worked at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and in 1928 at the Prussian State Theater in Kassel. On June 1, 1928, he was hired as a set designer and director at the United Municipal Theaters in Düsseldorf .
Arthur Pohl performed several classics in Düsseldorf, but his efforts to bring out The Criminals by Ferdinand Bruckner , The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and The Leather Heads by Georg Kaiser all failed due to resistance from the German nationalists in the city parliament. The dismissal for moral misconduct was rejected in court, but Pohl left the Düsseldorfer Schauspiel on January 29, 1929.
He found a new place of work as a set designer at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin. Initially unnamed, he also worked for film from 1931, sending out treatments and synopsis . From 1936 his name appeared as a co-screenwriter, including the monumental two-part series The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb .
In June 1941 he was drafted into military service. After his release from American captivity in February 1946, he lived in West Berlin , but signed a directorial contract with DEFA on May 1, 1947 . In 1949 he made his first film Die Brücke , the only GDR film that addressed the problems of displacement. In 1951 Pohl traveled to the Soviet Union with a film delegation. For directing the large-scale production Die Unbesiegbaren (1953) about the SPD at the time of August Bebel , he received the national prize of the GDR 2nd class as a collective.
In 1957, the film head office raised objections to the anti-Western film Spielbank Affair , accusing Pohl of portraying life under capitalism too positively. Pohl, who had a serious accident during filming, then changed sides, but because of his past he did not receive any orders from the West German film industry.
It was not until 1960 that the broadcaster Free Berlin gave him his first directorial assignment with Das Haus full guests , which was heavily criticized by the Berliner Morgenpost . As a result, Pohl's work on German television was mostly limited to taking over a few scripts for the evening program.
Arthur Pohl had been married to Arntrud Hildebrand, nee Schulze, since August 4, 1943. Son Axel was born in 1951. After the divorce in 1960, he married the librarian Renate Blenn in 1963. From this marriage his daughter Angela, born in 1964, emerged.
Filmography
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Web links
- Arthur Pohl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short portrait of Arthur Pohl with photography on filmmuseum-potsdam.de
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| SURNAME | Pohl, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pohl, Artur; Pohl, Arthur Georg Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin |