Carl Heinz Wolff

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Carl Heinz Wolff (born February 11, 1884 in Werdau ; † December 9, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German film director and film producer .

Life

He first worked as an actor and began working as a film director in Berlin during the First World War . Wolff founded his own film company Ko Wo Film, for which he directed several films about the master detective Sherlock Holmes , and later he expanded his range.

He directed a wide variety of subjects from film drama to film comedy , in which he occasionally wrote the script or took part in the production. A really resounding success did not succeed, not even through Pipin, the short one with Heinz Rühmann, who was not yet particularly popular at the time, as the main actor. Wolff continued to work as a stage actor and most recently as a guest performance director.

In the second half of the 1930s, Wolff ran into considerable financial difficulties. He was used almost exclusively for short films and was unemployed for a long time. It was not until July 1942, shortly before his death, that he was offered the prospect of directing three short films again. Wolff died at the age of only 57.

Filmography

  • 1915: The Black Hussar (actors only)
  • 1916: waiter, pay
  • 1916: Missing out of love
  • 1917: The earth current motor
  • 1917: The cassette
  • 1917: Your Highness has fun
  • 1918: The snake ring
  • 1918: What he saw in the mirror
  • 1918: XYZ
  • 1918: Brockhaus, volume thirteen
  • 1919: The bet
  • 1919: The earth current motor
  • 1919: The Mexican
  • 1920: The prisoner
  • 1921: Between Flames and Floods (also co-script)
  • 1927: The Lord of the Night
  • 1929: sins of youth
  • 1929: The moral judge
  • 1929: Once upon a time there was a loyal hussar
  • 1930: rag ball
  • 1930: Flax man as an educator
  • 1930: freedom in chains
  • 1931: Kyritz - Pyritz
  • 1931: A greyhound
  • 1931: perpetrators wanted
  • 1931: The love branch
  • 1932: Mrs. Lehmann's daughters
  • 1932: love of hussars
  • 1933: Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
  • 1934: Pipin the short one
  • 1934: Say hello to the truck again
  • 1934: In the matter of Timpe
  • 1935: Don't fall in love with Lake Constance
  • 1936: King of Diamonds (short film)
  • 1937: Heinz coughs (short film)
  • 1937: Goose Bones (short film)
  • 1937: Football (short film)
  • 1938: The 50 Mark Note (short film)
  • 1939: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • 1940: Tip on Amalia
  • 1942: Just don't push (short film)

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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 447 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Carl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1942
Place of death Berlin