Christoph Mülleneisen junior

Christoph Mülleneisen Jr. (* December 22, 1887 in Cologne as Theodor Maria Mülleneisen , † April 14, 1948 in Lobberich ) was a German film producer .

Live and act

The son of the producer Christoph Mülleneisen sr. (1866–1925) went to school in Belgium , Switzerland , England and the Canary Islands . In the Canary Islands he had also served as secretary and deputy vice-consul of the imperial German vice-consulate, but also worked as paymaster for shipping lines that crossed between the islands. Between 1907 and 1909 he stayed in the French colony of Ivory Coast , in 1910/11 he made a trip through the USA and Canada with the task of acquiring real estate in Canada.

Immediately afterwards, through his father, before the First World War, he got to know the film industry from the bottom up. On behalf of his father, Mülleneisen Junior first worked in Cologne, then in Berlin and towards the end of the war, in 1918, also in Constantinople , where he had been entrusted with the distribution of German films. After the end of the war he managed to return home to Germany on adventurous routes.

After his father's death in 1925, Mülleneisen jr. the management, with the beginning of the talky-film era - his first important activity in 1930 was that of a financier of the world war film in 1914, the last days before the world fire of Richard Oswald - he was in Berlin directly with the film production (elite sound film production GmbH). His first major artistic success was Max Ophüls ' critically acclaimed Schnitzler film Liebelei , which he had implemented immediately before the National Socialists came to power.

In 1939, after more than six years of inactivity as a producer, he teamed up with his colleague Franz Tapper and produced on behalf of Majestic-Film GmbH . In the course of the dissolution of the last remaining private production companies in 1941/42, the Majestic was also absorbed by the state-run Berlin-Film , and Mülleneisen formed a joint production group with Tapper. In the autumn of 1943, Christoph Mülleneisen jr. from Berlin, which was ravaged by heavy bombing, to his wife's home in Lobberich near Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia , his wife died on February 19, 1944 from a misdirected V1 rocket .

After the arrival of the British occupation forces, he was appointed head of the district administration by the military authorities. From June 1945 to May 1946 he worked as the district administrator for the Kempen-Krefeld district . At this time, Mülleneisen had built up a new professional pillar as a businessman, concluded consulting contracts and took care of the rebuilding of the export business on behalf of companies. In 2007, the Viersen district dedicated the 42nd issue of its commemorative medal to him.

Filmography (as producer)

• 1931: The office manager
• 1931: Holzapfel knows everything
• 1932: Golden blonde girl, I'll give you my heart - I'm so in love ...
• 1932: Participant does not answer
• 1932: love at first note
• 1932: A city is upside down
• 1933: love affair
• 1939: Pedro is supposed to hang
• 1939: What is being played here?
• 1940: Casanova marries
• 1940: Heart furnished with modern furniture
• 1940: Cheer up, Johannes
• 1941: Mrs. Luna
• 1941: What Happened That Night?
• 1942: love comedy
• 1943: The secret brides
• 1944: The Roedern affair

literature

• Gerhard Rehm: Christoph Mülleneisen - film producer in Berlin and district administrator of the Kempen-Krefeld district. A life sketch. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen , 57th episode 2006, pp. 31–50.

Web links

• Christoph Mülleneisen biography
• Christoph Mülleneisen in the Internet Movie Database (English)(not separated from the father of the same name)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen 2008 , p. 91.