Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (born September 5, 1875 in Berlin ; † February 12, 1953 there ) was a director , cameraman , producer and a pioneer of German film.
life and work
Constructor and cameraman
From 1903 Froelich worked for Oskar Messter , one of the pioneers in German cinema, where he initially worked in the design department for cinematographic devices. As a cameraman for Messter's Wochenschau, among other things, he films the consequences of a train accident on the Berlin elevated railway on September 28, 1908, one of the greatest traffic disasters of the time. During the First World War he was used as a war correspondent.
Film director and producer
Between 1912 and 1951 he made 77 films.
1913 was Froelich with Richard Wagner be directed - debut . In 1920 he founded Froelich-Film GmbH. Numerous silent films were made, such as the Cabal and Love adaptation Luise Millerin (1921) and Mother and Child (1924). He often shot with Henny Porten , with whom he also owned a joint production company between 1926 and 1929.
In 1929 Froelich made the first German sound film: The night is ours . In 1930 Froelich took over two glass houses in Berlin-Tempelhof, which had already served as a studio in the days of the silent film , and had them converted into sound film studios. He produced numerous films in his studio, including Rolf Hansen's short film Das Schönheitsfleckchen (1936), the first German feature film in color. In 1931 he was in charge of Leontine Sagan's boarding school film, Girls in Uniform, as "artistic director" .
In 1933 Froelich was one of the recognized film artists and produced successful films with popular stars of the time, including Hans Albers , Heinz Rühmann , Ingrid Bergman and Zarah Leander .
In 1943 he shot another lavish large-scale production with the two-part series Buchholz und Neigungsehe (total playing time: over three hours). Here, after more than three decades, Froelich's last collaboration with his former house star, Porten.
Cultural politician
In 1933 Froelich joined the NSDAP and took over the management of the general association for film production and exploitation. In 1937 he was appointed professor and in 1939 president of the Reichsfilmkammer and held this office until the end of the war in 1945. The Reichsfilmkammer was a subdivision of the Reich Chamber of Culture , which, as a National Socialist professional organization, regulated access to all artistic professions. During his time as President of the Reichsfilmkammer, Carl Froelich lived in the Berlin villa at Thielallee 36 in Dahlem . The private film projection room is now run as a cinema under the name Capitol Dahlem.
In 1941 Froelich became an honorary member of the Deutsche Kinotechnische Gesellschaft (DKG), a forerunner of today's television and cinema technology society .
After the end of the war
After the war, Froelich was imprisoned and denazified in 1948 . Although he had made the second highest number of films banned by the Control Council after Veit Harlan with ten films, he was still able to produce the films Three Girls Spinning (1950) and Stips (1951) before his death . His studio had been badly damaged in the war and was no longer in use.
Filmography (selection)
(Director, unless otherwise stated)
- 1906: Meissen porcelain (camera)
- 1911: tragedy of a strike (camera)
- 1912: young and old (camera)
- 1912: The dead are silent (camera)
- 1912: Extinguished light (camera)
- 1912: The shadow of the sea (camera)
- 1913: Problematic natures (camera)
- 1913: Too late (director's participation questionable, camera)
- 1913: Richard Wagner
- 1913: Tyrol in arms
- 1913: The pastor's daughter (camera)
- 1913: Eva (camera)
- 1913: the enemy in the country (camera)
- 1913: Guilty (camera)
- 1913: Your good reputation (camera)
- 1913: Problematic natures (camera)
- 1914: The great sinner (camera)
- 1914: The Valley of Dreams (camera)
- 1914: Mountain Night (camera)
- 1915: Prince Seppl
- 1915: Musketeer Kaczmarek
- 1915: Just don't get married
- 1916: The umbrella with the swan
- 1916: Werner Krafft
- 1917: The marriage of Luise Rohrbach (only script)
- 1918: The Ruby Salamander (script only)
- 1918: Icarus, the flying man
- 1918: Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne (only script)
- 1919: the dancer
- 1919: The seduced
- 1919: Poor Thea
- 1919: Käthe Keller's love affairs
- 1920: The Karamasoff brothers
- 1920: The detours of the beautiful Karl
- 1920: The Kwannon from Okadera
- 1921: erring souls
- 1922: Luise Millerin
- 1923: The Treasure (production only)
- 1923: The weather warden
- 1924: mother and child
- 1925: chamber music
- 1926: Violantha
- 1926: The flames lie
- 1927: My aunt - your aunt
- 1927: The big break
- 1928: Lotte
- 1928: love in the cowshed
- 1928: love and thieves
- 1928: Refuge
- 1929: The night is ours
- 1931: girls in uniform
- 1931: Luise, Queen of Prussia
- 1932: Gitta discovers her heart
- 1932: They - or none
- 1933: The Leuthen Choral
- 1933: Maturing youth
- 1934: I for you - you for me
- 1934: Quarrel about Jolanthe
- 1935: Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
- 1935: I was Jack Mortimer
- 1935: Liselotte of the Palatinate
- 1935: Traumulus
- 1936: The Beauty Spot (producer and screenplay)
- 1936: Robbery of the Sabine Women (producer only)
- 1936: If we were all angels
- 1937: The really great follies
- 1937: The detours of the beautiful Karl
- 1938: home
- 1938: The 4 journeymen
- 1938: Andalusian nights
- 1938: Life can be so beautiful
- 1939: It was a glittering ball night
- 1940: The Queen's Heart
- 1941: The gas man
- 1941: The way to the outdoors (producer only)
- 1942: Wedding at Bärenhof
- 1944: Buchholz family
- 1944: Passion marriage
- 1950: Three girls are crazy
- 1951: Stips
- 1951: Torreani (production only)
literature
- Friedrich-Karl Pflughaupt: Froelich, Carl August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 652 f. ( Digitized version ).
- WK: A life for the film. For the 65th birthday of Carl Froehlich. In: Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland , Vol. 6, Issue 91, 1940, pp. 14–15. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Carl Froelich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carl Froelich at filmportal.de
- Berlin film studios, the Froelich studio
- Newspaper article about Carl Froelich in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Capitol Dahlem on Berlin.de , accessed on November 5, 2010
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Froelich, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Froelich, Carl August Hugo (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film pioneer and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1953 |
Place of death | Berlin |