Carl Wilhelm (director)

Carl Wilhelm (born February 9, 1872 in Vienna , † September 1936 in London ) was an Austrian actor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Wilhelm began his stage career in Graz in 1899 . His career took him to Znojmo (1900), Düsseldorf (1901) and Berlin (1902). In 1905 he was engaged as the first hero and lover of the Vienna Burgtheater . In 1907/08 he also played under Max Reinhardt in Berlin.

His repertoire included the title characters in Goethe's Faust and Egmont , The Count of Essex by Antonio Coello and The Pastor of Kirchfeld by Ludwig Anzengruber .

As an actor and assistant director, he finally approached the new medium of film. Soon he concentrated entirely on the direction. After his first work, the short documentary film A Merry Winter's Day in Berlin's Grunewald , shot for producer Oskar Messter in 1909 , Wilhelm worked for a number of other Berlin production companies. In the period before the First World War , he shot a series of comedies with the silent film star Leo Peukert in the lead role for Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH in Lankwitz and BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers in Steglitz .

His two comedies with Ernst Lubitsch , shot in 1913 and 1914, were very successful; In 1919 a critic wrote with reference to the first of the two: " The company is getting married and Meyer from Berlin is still our best light plays."

In 1915 he worked with his Cewe-Films and in 1920/21 with Carl-Wilhelm-Film GmbH as his own producer. Carl Wilhelm remained a busy director until the end of the silent film era .

After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Wilhelm, who was of Jewish origin, returned to Vienna. He was the father of the screenwriters Hans Wilhelm and Wolfgang Wilhelm. In October 1935 he left Vienna, emigrated to his son Wolfgang in London and died the following year.

Filmography

Director

• 1909: A happy winter's day in Berlin's Grunewald - also actors
• 1911: serfdom
• 1912: The removed lover
• 1912: Brother's heroic deed
• 1912: The eleventh commandment: You shall not disturb your neighbor's honeymoon
• 1912: Die Hand des Schicksals - Directed together with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
• 1912: Leo, the widow's friend / Leo as a widow's friend
• 1912: Mama: A novel from the life of an actress
• 1912: The Neighbors' Children - Directed together with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
• 1912/13: Leo, the black Münchhausen
• 1913: Die Kunstschützin - also an actor; Directed together with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
• 1913: The Shylock of Krakow - also a performer
• 1913: Tango fever
• 1913/14: The company gets married
• 1914: Miss Lieutenant - also script
• 1914: Miss Feldgrau - also script
• 1914: The Sutler - also script
• 1914: The pride of the company
• 1915: The Barber of Filmersdorf - also screenplay
• 1915: Berlin in the war year (documentary film produced on behalf of the Association of the Central Office for Tourism)
• 1915: Carl and Carla
• 1915: Mrs. Anna's pilgrimage. Episode from Vienna-Berlin life 1914/15 - also screenplay and production
• 1916: Sami, the seafarer
• 1916: A circus girl
• 1917: The four-in-hand
• 1917: Albert gets divorced
• 1917: Doctor Lauffen
• 1917: Az elátkozott család
• 1917: Fabricius úr leánya
• 1917: Fekete gyémántok
• 1918: A Gazdag szegények
• 1918: A Szerelem bolondjai
• 1919: The Queen of Heaven / You my Queen of Heaven - also script
• 1919: the duty to live
• 1919: Princess Tatjana or When a woman loses her way
• 1919/20: The Yellow Death - Part 1
• 1919/20: The Yellow Death - Part 2
• 1920: decent women
• 1920: Die Augen der Welt - also screenplay and production
• 1920: The idol of truth
• 1920: Slow Death / Those who yearn for love - also screenplay and production
• 1920: The tribe - also script and production
• 1920/21: The House of Torment - also screenplay, production
• 1921: The stolen million dollar recipe - also production
• 1921: Country road and big city / musicians of life - also production
• 1921: The darling of women - also production
• 1921: pearls mean tears / tragic adventures of the Japanese Dr. Rao
• 1921: Wrong Good
• 1921/22: human sacrifice
• 1922: Lumpaci Vagabundus / The evil spirit Lumpaci Vagabundus - also screenplay
• 1924: Debit and credit - also script
• 1925: Nick, the king of chauffeurs
• 1925: The swapped bride
• 1926: The third squadron - also script
• 1926: Mikosch's last adventure - also script
• 1926: When the young wine blooms - also script
• 1927: Three boys moved ... / Three souls - one thought / A garrison in love
• 1927: The duty to be silent - also script
• 1928: Kaczmarek
• 1928/29: The Gypsy Primate - also screenplay
• 1929: Three make their fortune / dear home
• 1929: Quiet home with use of the kitchen / The girl from the operetta - also script
• 1930: The company gets married

Others

• 1910: Hexenlied (with Henny Porten ; director: Franz Porten ) - actor
• 1910: The Reason of the Heart (Director: Charles Decroix ) - cast member
• 1910: Pro patria. A submarine film (with Leo Peukert ; director: Charles Decroix ) - assistant director
• 1911: Father and Son (Director: Walter Schmidthässler ) - actors
• 1911: A Wife's Heart (Director: Charles Decroix ) - cast member
• 1913: A Venetian Night (director: Max Reinhardt ) - assistant director
• 1932: Under the spell of Eulenspiegel (director: Frank Wisbar ) - “collective management” together with Herbert Ephraim
• 1935: J'aime toutes les femmes (director: Carl Lamač ) - production assistant

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 541.

Web links

• Carl Wilhelm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short article on the studio of the "Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH" ("Muto") including a photo of Carl Wilhelm
• Photo at Deutsches Filminstitut

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bobby E. Lüthge in the Film-Kurier , No. 15, June 22, 1919