Christoph Mülleneisen senior
Christoph Mülleneisen sr. (Born May 19, 1866 in Cologne ; † June 11, 1925 , probably in Berlin ) was a German cinema operator and producer , a pioneer of German cinematography.
Live and act
Mülleneisen had done pioneering work in the German cinema. In his early field of activity alone, on the Rhine and Ruhr, he was already operating 15 cinemas around 1910. In 1911, Mülleneisen, Düsseldorf competitor Ludwig Gottschalk , who had released the Danish box office hit Afgrunden by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen in the leading role in Germany, succeeded in snapping both Danish film pioneers in front of their noses and sending both Nielsen and Gad to Germany to fetch. Mülleneisen planned to sign her for his German Cinematographers Society (Dekage).
After the two Danes were signed to the much more powerful German Bioscop in Berlin, Mülleneisen left Cologne and also settled in Berlin (Charlottenburg district). Here he tried to assert himself as the stars of his films as producers with significantly less promising film artists such as the former Nielsen parodist Lissi Nebuschka and the corpulent Manny Ziener . However, before the end of the First World War , Mülleneisen had to stop his film production again and concentrated the remaining years of his life entirely on the distribution business.
His son Christoph Mülleneisen junior had learned from his father and had traveled to distant countries (e.g. the Ottoman Empire ) on his behalf during the imperial era and the first years of the Weimar Republic to promote the distribution of German silent films. At the time of the sound film, Mülleneisen junior appeared as a quite successful feature film producer.
Filmography
- 1912: Big game
- 1913: his career
- 1913: His last will
- 1913: Lichtgasse 14
- 1913: Winterflirt (also director)
- 1913: From difficult times
- 1913: witch magic
- 1914: on the border
- 1915: love men
- 1915: The Miser's heirs
- 1915: Fat Berta
- 1915: Raffles, the riddle of the big city
- 1916: And love wins
- 1916: Homunculi
- 1917: A dangerous game
Individual proof
- ↑ some sources name Wilhelmshaven
Web links
- Christoph Mülleneisen in: Film pioneers on the Rhine and Ruhr
- Christoph Mülleneisen senior in the Internet Movie Database (English)- filmographies of Mülleneisen father and son falsely mixed up
- Christoph Mülleneisen senior at filmportal.de - filmographies of Mülleneisen father and son wrongly mixed up
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mülleneisen, Christoph senior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cinema operator and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1925 |
| Place of death | Germany |