Carl Ferdinand Fischer

Carl Ferdinand Fischer (born October 18, 1889 in Grenaa , Denmark , † December 16, 1957 in Denmark) was a Danish photographer and silent film cameraman with excursions to German film in the middle of the First World War .

Live and act

From 1905 Fischer received a photographic training and initially also worked in this profession. In 1913 he was hired by Denmark's all-powerful film production company Nordisk Film as a cameraman and subsequently photographed an abundance of mostly short feature films, almost exclusively directed by the directors Sofus Wolder, Lau Lauritzen and Alexander Christian. 1916 followed Fischer a call to Berlin, there are some less important war productions with Denmark's biggest film star Asta Nielsen ( In life eddy , Dora Brandes , The Love ABC , The Eskimo Baby , The orphanage children , the guinea pigs ) to photograph.

The film was shot in the summer of 1916 under the simplest of conditions in the Union Film Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof. His directors here included the directors Einar Zangenberg and Urban Gad, who were also invited to Germany . After all of these films flopped or were released in the cinemas with considerable delay, Fischer returned to Denmark in 1917. There he stood behind film cameras for a short time, but from the beginning of the 1920s he worked almost exclusively as a photographer.

His older brother Hugo J. Fischer (1881–1940) also worked as a silent film cameraman and worked almost exclusively with the director Lau Lauritzen.

Filmography

• 1913: Elskovs Gækkeri
• 1913: The bortførte brother
• 1913: Elskov's Opfindsomhed
• 1913: Prins for en Dag
• 1913: Frøken Anna and Anna Enepige
• 1913: Frk. Students
• 1913: Grossererens Overordnede
• 1913: I Stævnemødets Time
• 1913: Kæmpedamens Bortførelse
• 1913: Lykkens lunefulde Spil
• 1913: Troskabsvædsken
• 1913: Ægteskabets tornefulde Vej
• 1914: Fangens Søn
• 1914: En nydelig Ægtemand
• 1914: Grev Zarka's gang
• 1914: Hægt mig i Ryggen
• 1914: Kvindehadernes Fald
• 1914: pearl neck bandet
• 1914: Stemmeretskvinden
• 1914: Stop Tyven
• 1914: Svindlere
• 1914: En Udskejelse
• 1914: The fjerde lady
• 1915: Det blaa Vidunder
• 1915: Hjertefejlen
• 1915: Den skønne Ubekendte
• 1915: Spøgelsestyven
• 1915: Susanne i Badet
• 1915: En søvnig Brudgom
• 1915: Tre om Een
• 1915: Hans cousin
• 1915: Uniformens Magt
• 1916: In the vortex of life
• 1916: Dora Brandes
• 1916: The ABC of love
• 1916: The guinea pig
• 1916: The Eskimo Baby
• 1916: The orphanage child
• 1917: Learn alibis 1
• 1917: HP hænger paa 'en
• 1919: The Sømand han maa lide
• 1923: Smil and Taare

literature

• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 5: Denmark - Finland - Norway - Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984). KG Saur, Munich-New York-London-Paris 1986, p. 45 f.

Web links

• Carl Ferdinand Fischer in Det Danske Film Institute
• Carl Ferdinand Fischer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carl Ferdinand Fischer at filmportal.de