Carl Buderus (film pioneer)

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Carl Buderus (born April 4, 1863 in Bad Hersfeld ; date of death unknown) was a German civil engineer and both a pioneer of the electrical trade in Hanover and a film pioneer . He is considered to be the first Hanoverian cinematograph manufacturer and " film maker ".

Life

The early years

“ Lightning rod system from Buderus & Co., Elektrotechnische Fabrik, Hanover”, company sign on the listed cowshed in the courtyard complex at Freidingstrasse 4 in Hanover-Anderten

Born in Bad Hersfeld, “Kalle” studied at what was then the Technical University in Hanover. After a public power supply was put into operation for the first time in Hanover in 1883, Buderus and his wife Henny founded Buderus & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft in 1887 with its headquarters at 30 Auf dem Emmerberge street in what is now the Hanover-Südstadt district . There he began building power systems with dynamo machines , accumulators , installations with incandescent and arc lamps and lightning rod systems, which were particularly popular.

Buderus Kinematographenwerke

Apprenticeship contract from April 1907 for the apprentice Henry Ernst Knolle, born on February 3, 1893
Signature of Carl Buderus as managing director of the "Budérus Kinematographenwerke "

The "pioneer of the Hanoverian electrical trade" soon turned to cinematography and therefore sold his electrical company in 1900 to his authorized signatory , the electrical engineer Albert Baste, in order to then build his own small apparatus for filming and film projectors .

From 1903 he traded as a specialty shop for living photographs : using the Lumière system , he made his own small feature films and current reports , which he then had shown in the Mellini Theater .

Buderu's first longer film, which was now telling a story for the first time, was Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , 20 minutes long , which he shot in 1906, in the year of the actual event (director and leading actor: Carl Sonnemann).

“All of the company's employees also provide the actors. So mimics the cinematographer Karl Hasselmann in the film is also a soldier and a policeman. The interior decorations are placed in the sun in the garden, the outside front of the Buderus plant serves as the "station entrance" and the gym in Maschstrasse is converted into the " Rathaus Köpenick ". "

Carl Buderus earned so well from this film that he was able to build a new workshop with a studio . His company also had its own photocopier and produced gramophone records which he played in parallel with the projection of his silent films and which he sold together with his films as "sound images".

In the following year, 1907, Buderus shot the silver wedding anniversary of the Princely Couple of Schaumburg-Lippe "flicker-free" , which was then shown together with a number of other short films. In the same year he signed - for example under an apprenticeship contract - as managing director of Budérus Kinematographenwerke limited liability company .

The pioneer of the Hanoverian electrical trade and of the "early Hanoverian film" went to Berlin in 1908 .

On January 1, 1912, Buderus sold its cinematograph works to Dr. Adolf Wale and Ernst Schüssler, a former employee of the company, who moved the company's headquarters to Berlin.

At some point, obviously all trace of Carl Buderus himself, who had already gone to Berlin, was lost: the date of his death has "not yet been established".

Works (incomplete)

Honors

  • The Buderusstrasse in Hanover has been honoring the electrical and film pioneer since 1992 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Buderus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Peter Stettner: Carl Buderus (see web links )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Waldemar R. Röhrbein: BUDERUS ... (see literature)
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : The cinema . In: History of the City of Hanover . tape 2 : From the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Schlueter, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 471 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ a b c mmc Matthias Müller Company AG (Red.): Company history ... (see web links)
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : On the Emmerberge. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 29
  6. ↑ a b Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Web Links )
  7. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Buderus ... (see literature)
  8. ↑ Compare the Internet Movie Database (see web links)
personal data
SURNAME Buderus, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budérus, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, electrical and film pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld
DATE OF DEATH after 1912