Carl Boese

Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (born August 26, 1887 in Berlin ; † July 6, 1958 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German film director , screenwriter and producer.

Life

Carl Boese, son of a glass and porcelain merchant, studied theater studies, art history and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig after graduating from high school . He then worked as a publishing editor and finally as a dramaturge at the Leipzig City Theater. During the First World War in 1916 as a soldier he was so badly wounded that one arm was permanently paralyzed. He then worked as a journalist and film critic and came to film as a dramaturge and screenwriter for the small Berlin company Deuko (Deutsche Kolonial-Film GmbH). As a director of various production companies, he served the growing market with a multitude of fast-paced, thematically varied and mostly qualitatively insignificant feature films.

Together with Paul Wegener , Carl Boese directed his only film historically significant in 1920: The Golem, how it came into the world . The film, based on a script by Wegener and Henrik Galeen , is considered a masterpiece of German expressionist cinema . When the collaboration with Galeen and Wegener was over, Boese returned to colportage film; With the film The Black Shame (1921) he even directed a racist, anti-French propaganda film . In 1926 he founded his own production company in Berlin, Carl Boese-Film GmbH, which had produced thirteen films by 1933, most of which Boese directed himself. His only interesting directorial work in the late 1920s was the cautiously socially critical film Kinder der Strasse (1929). His preferred actors were Lissy Arna , Lucie Englisch , Gerhard Dammann , Julius Falkenstein , Otto Fee , Fritz Kampers and Paul Hörbiger .

Carl Boese's early sound films were popular military comedies that were often criticized for their political right- wing bias . In 1931 he directed a film about the music clown Grock alias Adrian Wettach . After the NSDAP came to power , he continued to shoot unpretentious comedies, often with Grethe Weiser , Jenny Jugo , Georg Alexander , Fritz Odemar , Rudolf Platte , Theo Lingen and Heinz Rühmann . These films were mass-produced in every respect - even in the eyes of the film reviewers , who did not award any of the four dozen films that Boese made between 1933 and 1945 with a rating . From 1935 to 1937 Boese was the first director of the television station Paul Nipkow .

After the end of the Second World War , Carl Boese was able to continue his career effortlessly and directed 13 further cinema films in Germany, the titles of which are largely forgotten today. Shortly before his death in the late 1950s, he turned to advertising and cultural films in addition to the cinema business .

Boese was married three times, namely with the actresses Grete Hollmann (1920), Margot Hollaender (1932) and Elena Luber (1938).

Filmography

Director, unless otherwise stated:

• 1917: Farmer Borchardt
• 1917: The Traitor - director, screenplay
• 1918: The Curse of Nuri / The Song of the Nisami
• 1918: The bet for a soul
• 1918: The fly bag Othello
• 1918: Donna Lucia
• 1918: Love and Life - Part 3: Two Worlds
• 1919: Nocturno of love
• 1919: At the last moment
• 1919: Dolores
• 1919: The Geisha and the Samurai
• 1919: The stolen soul
• 1919: Deported
• 1919: Whipped
• 1919: The swamp hanne
• 1919: The Devil and the Madonna
• 1919: curse of the past
• 1919: The Squid Club
• 1920: The prairie diva
• 1920: The Song of the Puszta
• 1920: Blackmailed
• 1920: The dancer Barberina
• 1920: About diamonds and women - director, screenplay
• 1920: three nights
• 1920: The Golem as it came into the world
• 1921: The black shame
• 1921: The raft of the dead
• 1921: The horror of the red mill
• 1921: The Walk through Hell - direction, screenplay
• 1923: Maciste and the Chinese chest
• 1924: Slaves of Love - director, screenplay
• 1924: The woman in the fire
• 1925: War in Peace
• 1925: marriage swindler
• 1925: The three porter girls
• 1925: ... and a call from the sinful world beckons
• 1925: If you have an aunt
• 1925: The Iron Bride
• 1926: The trumpets / hussar love blow
• 1926: Say hello to the blond child on the Rhine
• 1926: The man without sleep
• 1926: The last cab from Berlin
• 1926: Nanette does everything
• 1926: Kubinke, the barber, and the three maids
• 1926: The midshipman
• 1926: Single daughters
• 1927: Die Sporck'schen Jäger - screenplay, producer
• 1927: The noble blood
• 1927: Die elf Teufel - director ( artistic directorship ), producer
• 1927: The white spider
• 1927: The indiscreet woman
• 1927: The Holy Lie - Producer
• 1927: Heavy boys - easy girls - director, producer
• 1928: The Piccolo of the Golden Lion - director, producer
• 1928: When the mother and the daughter ... - Director, producer
• 1928: Eva in Silk - director, screenplay, producer
• 1928: Ossi has his pants on - director, producer
• 1928: Lemkes Sel. Widow - director, screenplay, producer
• 1929: Children of the street / raid
• 1929: Made up youth - director, producer
• 1929: Bobby, the gasoline boy - director, producer
• 1930: Alimony
• 1930: L'amour chante - screenplay
• 1930: El amor solfeando - manuscript
• 1930: O girl, my girl, how I love you!
• 1930: marriage strike
• 1930: The emperor's detective
• 1930: Come to me for a rendezvous / Rendez-vous (director, screenplay)
• 1930: Bock beer festival
• 1930: Central arrest for three days
• 1931: Father goes on a journey
• 1931: The horror of the garrison
• 1931: No celebration without Meyer
• 1931: Barracks magic
• 1931: Grock
• 1931: Service is service
• 1931: My cousin from Warsaw
• 1931: The floating maiden
• 1931: The unfaithful Eckehart
• 1932: Vous serez ma femme
• 1932: The most beautiful man in the state
• 1932: Three from the cavalry
• 1932: You don't need money
• 1932: Lumpenkavaliere / Wiener Lumpenkavaliere
• 1932: The cheeky badger
• 1932: Theodor Körner
• 1932: Annemarie, the bride of the company
• 1932: Madame has a visitor
• 1932: paprika
• 1933: The cold Mamsell
• 1933: the big trick
• 1933: Gretel draws the big lot
• 1933: a woman like you
• 1933: The flower girl from the Grand Hotel
• 1933: Country innocence
• 1933: The gentlemen from Maxim
• 1933: Return to happiness
• 1933: Novel One Night
• 1933: Greetings and kisses, Veronika!
• 1933: Three blue boys - one blonde girl - director, producer
• 1933: Das Lied vom Glück / There is only one melody
• 1934: Felix becomes the rifleman
• 1934: The horror of the Heidekrug
• 1934: My wife, the shooter queen
• 1934: Lisetta
• 1934: ... with me this evening
• 1934: heart is trump
• 1934: Miss Mrs.
• 1934: Dear stupid mom
• 1935: When a girl gets married
• 1935: One night on the Danube
• 1935: The King's Prisoner
• 1935: A whole guy
• 1935: The journey into the youth
• 1935: A wrong fifty man
• 1936: The misunderstood bon vivant
• 1936: A night with obstacles
• 1936: Men before marriage
• 1936: angels with small flaws
• 1936: Over there in the heather
• 1937: How the hare goes
• 1937: Dyplomatyczna - director
• 1937: Adventure in Warsaw
• 1937: Dyplomatyczna zona - director
• 1937: girls for everything
• 1938: Was it the one on the 3rd floor?
• 1938: Hearts in love
• 1938: Shots in cabin 7
• 1938: Five million are looking for an heir
• 1938: Steputat & Co.
• 1938: Black trip to happiness
• 1939: Hello Janine
• 1939: Three fathers around Anna
• 1939: My aunt, your aunt
• 1940: hen party
• 1941: wedding night
• 1941: Family connection
• 1941: Everything for Gloria - direction, screenplay
• 1941: La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
• 1943: Light blood
• 1943: Lascia cantare il cuore - director
• 1943: Season in Salzburg - direction, screenplay
• 1944: Harald arrives at nine
• 1944: The wedding hotel
• 1948: Beate - director, screenplay
• 1949: The Trombonist - director, screenplay
• 1950: Taxi wife - director, screenplay
• 1950: When men cheat
• 1951: Innocence in a Thousand Troubles / Girls from the Rainbow / Girls from Ready-to-Wear - Director, Screenplay
• 1952: The chaste bon vivant
• 1953: The night ghost
• 1953: women, films, TV radio
• 1953: The uncle from America
• 1953: Chaste Joseph
• 1955: The Spanish fly
• 1956: My aunt - your aunt
• 1957: Father makes a career

literature

• CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film

Web links

• Carl Boese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carl Boese at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Rhineland Bastard and Allied Rhineland Occupation