Carl L. Kirmse
Carl Ludwig Kirmse (born May 4, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 14, 1982 in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden ) was a German film architect with a creative period of four decades.
Live and act
Kirmse had studied architecture and art history at the university in his hometown of Frankfurt . He received further training at a Frankfurt art school, in Darmstadt and at the Zurich Polytechnic . In the following years, Kirmse initially worked as an architect in building construction and as an interior designer . In this area he took care of the design of villas, hotels and overseas ships.
After his military service, Kirmse joined the production company Decla in 1919 and then worked for Terra and UFA, among others . Until the outbreak of the Second World War, Kirmse was one of the busiest film architects in Germany; he designed the sets for melodramas and adventure stories as well as for musical comedies and crime stories. Until the mid-30s, these were mainly low-quality, secondary film productions. With Kurt Bernhardt's adaptation of the novel Die Waise von Lowood and Asta Nielsen's Dirnentragödie , Carl Kirmse was involved in two ambitious productions in those years. From 1934 onwards, Kirmse also regularly created Heimatfilme , a genre in which he specialized in the 1950s, when he designed the sets for all of the works in this genre by Munich film producer and Ganghofer specialist Peter Ostermayr . In 1959, at the age of 71, Kirmse retired from film.
Filmography
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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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 396.
Web links
- Carl L. Kirmse at filmportal.de
- Carl L. Kirmse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kirmse, Carl L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirmse, Carl Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1982 |
| Place of death | Ramsau near Berchtesgaden |