Botho Höfer
Botho Höfer (born May 15, 1880 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1958 there ) was a German film architect with a long career in domestic entertainment cinema.
Life
Höfer had received training as a theater painter and learned his trade from Professor Kurz. He then worked with Willi Ohranski for many years. Höfer then went to Siberia for five years and eventually became a painter for the Imperial Japanese Army, for which he made a series of battle paintings. His work "Winter Evening in Siberia" even found its way into the imperial palace in Tokyo . Botho Höfer was also a painter and draftsman during the First World War; several of his sketches were published in the Leipziger Illustrierte and the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung .
After the war, Höfer was given the opportunity to work as a production designer for films in Munich . Only a little later, in 1921, he came to Berlin and created designs for the Richard Oswalds production company . From 1923 Höfer worked for a wide variety of Berlin companies and at times made up to ten films a year, primarily simple comedies for a low-demanding audience. With his colleague Bernhard Schwidewski , he temporarily owned the joint decoration company "Höfer & Schwidewski". Towards the end of the silent film era, Höfer and his colleague Hans Minzloff formed a permanent team.
With the beginning of the Third Reich, Höfer was hardly active in the feature film anymore, only at the beginning of the 1940s did he return to film set construction. His last drafts (1949–1953), which Höfer always completed in cooperation with colleague Franz Bi , were created almost exclusively for Munich production companies. Nevertheless, Botho Höfer stayed in Berlin until his death in 1958.
Filmography (selection)
- 1920: Louise de Lavallière
- 1921: The golden plague
- 1922: Lucrezia Borgia
- 1923: children of today
- 1923: The Evangelimann
- 1924: Living Buddhas
- 1924: The Klabautermann
- 1924: The fall into happiness
- 1924: Rex Mundi
- 1924: Battle for the plaice
- 1925: Life's dice game
- 1925: My friend, the chauffeur
- 1926: Our Emden
- 1926: The Lord of the Night
- 1926: Mermaid
- 1927: Previous conditions
- 1927: The marriage nest
- 1927: Benno stand-up collar
- 1927: The beggar student
- 1928: City youth
- 1928: Robert and Bertram
- 1928: The insurmountable
- 1928: The modern Casanova
- 1928: The Carnival Prince
- 1928: The circus princess
- 1929: Foolish luck
- 1929: The black domino
- 1929: speed! Tempo!
- 1929: The competition bursts
- 1929: I loved you
- 1929: Blue Danube Waltz
- 1930: The hunt for the million
- 1930: The Corvette Captain
- 1930: The funny musicians
- 1930: The beggar student
- 1931: The woman one speaks of
- 1931: My heart longs for love
- 1933: Paths to a Good Marriage
- 1933: Three Kaiserjäger
- 1941: In the evening on the heath
- 1941: The Rainer case
- 1942: The night in Venice
- 1944: At that time, in my time
- 1950: Five under suspicion
- 1950: the man who wanted to live twice
- 1950: Hunted by the devil
- 1951: Fanfares of love
- 1952: My name is Niki
- 1952: The great temptation
- 1952: House of Life
- 1953: A heart plays wrong
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 6.
Web links
- Botho Höfer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Botho Höfer at filmportal.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hofer, Botho |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1958 |
Place of death | Berlin |