August Rinaldi

August Rinaldi , born in August Goldschmidt (born September 16, 1883 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , Germany ; † December 6, 1962 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a German film architect , painter and inventor .

Live and act

Born in Upper Palatinate, August Goldschmidt attended secondary school and received his artistic training at art academies in Munich and Rome . He then earned his living as a painter and interior designer . In 1912 he made his first contact with film under the stage name Rinaldi. Since the First World War , Rinaldi has designed the film structures into artistically less ambitious productions. Until 1933 he worked with the directors Richard Oswald , William Kahn , Karl Grune , Max Mack and Carl Boese , among others .

As a result of the National Socialists' seizure of power , the Jew Goldschmidt / Rinaldi was largely excluded from further artistic activities in the empire. Nevertheless, the former film architect initially stayed in Germany, most recently in Nuremberg , where he tried to work as a painter again. In December 1939 he managed to leave Rotterdam for the USA. In November 1945, Rinaldi, who was now called August Rinaldy, became a US citizen. Most recently in California , he found no place in the film industry. Instead, Rinaldi acted as an inventor.

Filmography

1915: The begging princess 1916–18: Let there be light! , three parts 1917: The Rose of Jiandur 1918: The living corpse 1918: Count Michael 1918: The Diary of a Lost Woman 1919: Demon of the World, two parts 1919: The girl shepherd 1919: slaves of capital 1919: The witch's song 1920: The fall into the flames 1920: The burning city 1920: Atonement 1920: The underground temple 1920: Nirvana, six parts 1921: The waves of life and love 1921: Lurking death 1921: Man and Mammon 1922: The one from the circus 1922: The girl without a conscience 1923: In the intoxication of passion

1923: The game of love 1924: guillotine 1926: Escape to the circus 1926: Hermann's stories 1926: The Lord of the Night 1926: Mermaid 1927: Previous conditions 1927: A girl from the people 1927: The marriage nest 1927: The field marshal 1928: The women’s war 1928: thieves 1929: Miss Ensign 1929: Sin and Morals 1929: girl on the cross 1929: two brothers 1929: poison gas 1930: rats of the big city 1930: The mountain guide of Zakopane 1930: a stormy night 1932: Fidele Razzia (short film)

literature

• 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. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 427 f.

Web links

• August Rinaldi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• August Rinaldi at filmportal.de