Mountain and sports film
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The mountain and sports-Film GmbH was a German company based in Freiburg , whose major business purpose was the film production. In line with its name, the company then focused on the production of films about the mountains and (ski) sports.
founding
The company was founded after the First World War in 1920 by the two mountaineers and skiers Arnold Fanck and Odo Deodatus I. Tauern . Their headquarters had the mountain and sports-Film GmbH in Freiburg Röderstraße 9th
Further development
The researchers Rolf Bauer and in 1921 Bernhard Villinger joined the company’s group of shareholders . Sepp Allgeier was the first cameraman for the film production company between 1920 and 1923 . In addition to this, after training by Allgeier and Fanck, Richard Angst , Albert Benitz , Kurt Neubert , Walter Riml and Hans Schneeberger also worked as cameramen. Together with Allgeier and Fanck, they belonged to the Freiburg School and ensured that Freiburg im Breisgau was a center of German filmmaking at the time. In addition to Fanck's films, Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH produced documentary, animation and fairy tale films. Improvisation became an essential element in recording and editing.
“While almost all film manuscripts were initially based on the invention of a literary story, which was subsequently illustrated by film images, I always went the opposite way. That means figurative ideas first, which then gradually merged into a closed action. "
Studio recordings were also made for the first time from 1923/24. For the film Der Berg des Schicksals , debutant Luis Trenker, mountaineers and skiers were not only used as actors, but as actors for the first time.
The hyperinflation brought the company considerable difficulties; In 1925 it was taken over by Universum-Film ( UFA ), which was able to swallow a successful and annoying competitor in this way.
In 1946 Fanck tried to revive the Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH in Freiburg, but did not get beyond the planning phase. The company was entered in the commercial register between 1946 and 1952.
Filmography
- 1919/20: The miracle of the snowshoe , 1st part
- 1920: The masters of water
- 1921: Jiu-Jitsu - the invisible weapon
- 1921: Moritz, the dreamer - How Moritz imagines the creation of the world
- 1921: The great Dempsey – Carpentier boxing match
- 1921: In the fight with the mountains
- 1921: With the Jungfrau Railway to the regions of the eternal ice
- 1921/22: The wonder of the snowshoe , part 2 A fox hunt on skis through the Engadine
- 1921/22: The dying city
- 1922: Pömperli's fight with the snowshoe
- 1922: Chufu
- 1922: The German fighting games in 1922
- 1922: Earth – Mars football competition
- 1922: Ali-Baba and the 40 robbers
- 1922: A great ride - a sailing film and what surgeon Huckebein experienced when it was shot
- 1923: $ 1,000 reward
- 1923: The heart of man
- 1923: Saving Franz's life - an experience among the savages
- 1923/24: The mountain of fate
- 1924: The Maloja cloud phenomenon
- 1924: The coveted Lotte or Welch delightful little feet
- 1924/25: The white art
- 1925: Rowing
- 1925/26: South Tyrol - an outpost of German culture
- 1927: Winter sports in the Black Forest
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transcript of the publication for the entry in the local commercial register: “In the commercial register B, Volume III, O.-B. 14 was registered: Berg- und Sportfilm, company with limited liability based in Freiburg i. Br. The object of the company is the production and exploitation of cinematographic recordings of a sporting and scientific nature. The share capital amounts to 21,000 marks. The managing directors are Dr. Odo Deodatus Tauern, private, Freiburg and Dr. Arnold Fanck, geologist, Freiburg. The articles of association of this limited liability company were adopted on February 20, 1920. Each of the two partners is entitled to represent the company alone. Freiburg, March 8, 1920. 2580. District Court I. "
- ^ A b Hans-Michael Bock : The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema . Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford 2009. ISBN 978-0-8574-5565-9 , pp. 116-117.
- ↑ Lisa Blitz: Freiburg as the cradle of German mountain films , July 17, 2017, exhibition at the Museum for City History, Freiburg im Breisgau, on: freiburg.de
- ^ Kurt Hochstuhl, Freiburg State Archives, April 2014; Finding aid T 1 (access 2005/0058): T 1 estate Allgeier, Sepp
- ^ Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau 1922, p. II 18.
- ^ La Montagne Sacrée, Arnold Fanck - 1926 , on: fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com
- ^ Villinger, Bernhard , on: leo-bw.de
- ^ Arnold Fanck , on: filmportal.de
- ↑ Allgeier, Sepp , on: leo-bw.de
- ^ Heidi Ossenberg: Freiburg - the birthplace of mountain films . In: Badische Zeitung of March 21, 2009, on: badische-zeitung.de
- ↑ The mountain of fate , on: filmportal.de
- ↑ a b Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH (Freiburg / Br.) , On: filmportal.de
- ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, State Archives Freiburg, Commercial Register files, District Court Freiburg, G 540/5 No. 11508, Archival Identifier 5-2068186.