Carl Koch (director)
Carl Koch (born July 30, 1892 in Nümbrecht , † December 1, 1963 in London - Barnet ) was a German film director and screenwriter .
Life
Koch attended high school in Essen and studied - interrupted by his participation in the First World War as captain of the artillery - from 1912 to 1914 and 1918 to 1920 in Munich, Bonn, Göttingen, Marburg and Berlin, art history, history and philosophy. After completing his studies, he came into contact with Paul Wegener from the Institute for Cultural Research, where he made his first films. It was there that he met Lotte Reiniger , whom he married on December 6, 1921.
He then worked in various positions ( assistant director , manager , animator and cinematographer ) to the cartoons with his wife. After directing two real films at the beginning of the 1930s, he and his wife first went to London at the end of 1935, then to Paris at the beginning of January 1937, where Jean Renoir hired him as an assistant.
He made two films in Italy in 1940 and 1942 under his Italian name Carlo Koch . He then returned to Berlin with his wife, where he was drafted into the Volkssturm at the end of 1944. After the war he found a job with the Berliner Rundfunk. In September 1948 he and his wife settled in Great Britain . His urn rests with that of his wife in the cemetery in Dettenhausen near Tübingen.
Filmography (selection)
- 1922: Cinderella
- 1928: Egyptian trip. An expedition through the oldest country in the world (documentary)
- 1932: Nippon
- 1941: Tosca
- 1942: Caravan (Una signora dell'Ovest)
literature
- Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch, Jean Renoir. Scenes of friendship . Institut Français, Center d'Information Cinématographique, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-920727-09-6 , esp. Pp. 15-19.
- Ivo Blom: “Be perfidious with just one look”. Carl Koch, Jean Renoir, Luchino Visconti and TOSCA . In: Francesco Bono, Johannes Roschlau (ed.): Tenors, tourists, guest workers. German-Italian film relations . Edition text + kritik, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86916-139-6 , pp. 80–94.
Web links
- Carl Koch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Memorial plaque in memory of Lotte Reiniger in the Official Gazette of the Dettenhausen Community, Volume 63, Number 18, May 4, 2016 (with a picture of the grave).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koch, Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nümbrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1963 |
| Place of death | London Borough of Barnet |