Botho Höfer

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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)

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.

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personal data
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