Carl Hoffmann
Carl Hoffmann (born June 9, 1885 in Neisse , † July 13, 1947 in Minden in Westphalia ) was a German cameraman and director . Alongside Karl Freund and Fritz Arno Wagner, Hoffmann is one of the most important cameramen of the Weimar Republic .
Life
At the age of thirteen he was already engaged in photography . He completed his training in Freiburg , where he initially worked in a photo laboratory and as a projectionist. He later moved to Berlin . In 1916 he became chief operator of the Decla film company.
Carl Hoffmann began as a cameraman with short films based on literary motifs such as B. The Guarantee (1912/13), The Singer's Curse or The Walk to the Iron Hammer ; feature films such as Macbeth and Fiesko (both from 1913) followed. In 1916 Hoffmann shot Otto Rippert's six-part Homunculus series. In addition to numerous entertainment films, documentaries such as In den wilden Schroff des Hochgebirgs (1918) were made. Besides works with rather abstruse titles like From the secrets of a convent (1919) or O he were still a stewing hen (1920), he worked on other literary adaptations, such as 1920-21 in the conspiracy to Genoa with Fritz Kortner and 1920 at La Ronde with Asta Nielsen and Conrad Veidt . Even with the first Dr. Mabuse film, Dr. Mabuse, the player , was Hoffmann behind the camera in the twenties. The director was here Fritz Lang , as well as in the Nibelungen films that emerged a little later.
Under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Hoffmann filmed Faust in 1925/26 - a German folk tale with Gösta Ekman , Emil Jannings and Yvette Guilbert . This film is a testament to his skills in trick technology.
In The Mysterious Mirror (1927), he led together with Richard Teschner also directed.
After a few more years behind the camera, Hoffmann directed Ich bin du , a mix-up film against a semi-exotic background, in 1933/34 , as well as in 1934 for People in the Shadow, People in the Light and numerous entertainment films from the Nazi era. During this time he also introduced his son Kurt, born in 1910, to the film business as a volunteer. He shot his last film, Shiva and the Gallows Flower , in 1945. Hoffmann's grave is located in Minden's north cemetery.
Filmography (selection)
camera
- 1913: The guarantee
- 1915: The truck
- 1915: And you should wander restlessly ...
- 1916: Homunculus (6 parts)
- 1917: The wedding in the Excentric Club
- 1917: The anniversary award
- 1917: The Stranger
- 1917: Two blue boys
- 1917: The king's daughter of Travankore
- 1917: The girl next door
- 1918: The diary of Dr. Hard
- 1918: The enchanted castle
- 1918: The mother's song
- 1918: Heide-Gretel
- 1918: The wives of Josias Graffenreuth
- 1919: The plague in Florence
- 1919: half-blood
- 1919: The boy in blue
- 1919: Prince Cuckoo
- 1919: Scary Stories
- 1920: Satanas
- 1920: From morning to midnight
- 1920: The Count of Cagliostro
- 1920: The dance
- 1920: Kurfürstendamm
- 1920: The Janus head
- 1921: The Genoa conspiracy
- 1921: longing
- 1921: The Lord of the Beasts
- 1921: Lady Hamilton
- 1922: The money on the street
- 1922: Dr. Mabuse, the player
- 1922: Dying Peoples
- 1923: The stone rider
- 1924: The Nibelungs
- 1924: The other
- 1925: Lightning train of love
- 1925: Variety show
- 1926: Faust - a German folk tale
- 1927: The Frauengasse in Algiers
- 1928: Hungarian Rhapsody
- 1928: Looping the Loop
- 1929: The wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna
- 1929: Manolescu
- 1929: High treason
- 1930: the tiger
- 1930: hocus-pocus
- 1930: The Sans-souci flute concert
- 1930: the immortal scoundrel
- 1931: Congress dances
- 1931: In the secret service
- 1931: Yorck
- 1932: Man without a name
- 1932: The white demon
- 1932: Marshal Forward
- 1933: Dawn
- 1933: Season in Cairo
- 1933: Inge and the millions
- 1933: Waltz War
- 1933: The tunnel
- 1934: The Czardas Princess
- 1934: Peer Gynt
- 1939: The Florentine hat
- 1939: I am Sebastian Ott
- 1939: Gold in New Frisco
- 1940: Golowin walks through the city
- 1940: The Fraulein von Barnhelm
- 1941: The girl from Fanö
- 1942: Two in one big city
- 1942: Symphony of a Life
- 1945: Via Mala
- 1945: a great day
- 1945: Shiva and the gallows flower (unfinished)
Director
- 1935: The multiplication table of love
- 1935: Victoria
- 1935: The merry women
- 1936: The people with the sunstroke
- 1936: Full throttle into marriage
- 1936: Rolf has a secret
- 1937: People in the shadow, people in the light
- 1937: From midnight
Web links
- Carl Hoffmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carl Hoffmann at filmportal.de
- Filmography with photo on cinematographers.nl
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hoffmann, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neisse |
DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1947 |
Place of death | Minden |