Curt Oertel

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Curt Franz Albert Oertel (born May 10, 1890 in Osterfeld (near Naumburg) , † January 1, 1960 in Wiesbaden or Limburg ) was a German cameraman, film director and film producer.

life and work

Curt Oertel started filming as a cameraman in Berlin in 1925 . In the first year of his activity he was able to work on Georg Wilhelm Pabst's masterpiece Die joudlose Gasse (with Werner Krauss , Asta Nielsen and Greta Garbo ) and in a production by Alexander Korda . Two more films with Pabst as director - Secrets of a Soul and Man Not Playing with Love , both also starring Werner Krauss - followed.

Curt Oertel's first directorial work was the cinematic sequences in the world premiere of Ernst Toller's play Hoppla, wir Leben! Produced by Erwin Piscator's Berlin theater . (1927) with Alexander Granach in the leading role. The production was directed by Erwin Piscator. Walter Ruttmann worked as co-director of the film sequences . In the government commencement of the Nazi party staged Oertel together with Hans Deppe this with blood-and-soil staggered motifs Fries drama The Ghost Rider (1933, with Mathias Wieman and Marianne Hoppe ) on the novella by Theodor Storm . Two years later, Oertel's first independent directorial work followed, Pole Poppenspäler (with Gerhard Hesselbach and Ines Campi ). The model was again a novella by Theodor Storm, this time edited by Kurt Rupli , who a little later made a name for himself as a politically loyal director of Nazi documentaries . Oertel himself has also directed and produced a series of shorter documentaries on heroic and patriotic topics since 1932. His most outstanding work is the 1938-40 documentary about Michelangelo , which was revised in 1950 by Robert J. Flaherty and which even received an Academy Award in this version .

After the end of the Second World War , Oertel founded the "Curt Oertel Film-Studiengesellschaft mbH" in Wiesbaden , which produced nine documentary films between 1947 and 1964 and which was continued by his brother Franz Oertel after his death.

Together with Erich Pommer (US film officer, former producer at UFA) and Horst von Hartlieb (managing director of the Association of Film Distributors in Wiesbaden), Oertel designed voluntary self-regulation in early 1948 based on the American Production Code or Hays Code of 1930/34 the film industry (FSK).

Honors

Filmography

Camera unless otherwise stated

  • 1925: One minute to twelve (stills)
  • 1925: The one from the Lower Rhine. 1st part + 2nd part
  • 1925: The joyless alley
  • 1925: my wife's dancer
  • 1925: the adventurer
  • 1925/1926: secrets of a soul
  • 1926: You don't play with love
  • 1926: Bara en danserska (still photos)
  • 1927: Thunderstorm over Gottland
  • 1927: Oops, we're alive (next to camera, screenplay + buildings)
  • 1929: The green monocle
  • 1929: Revolt in the house of education
  • 1930: The Don Cossack Song
  • 1930: The King of Paris (Le roi de Paris; stills)
  • 1931: Mountains in Flames (still photos)
  • 1932: The stone miracles of Naumburg (short documentary film; also producer)
  • 1933: The Naumburg Passion (short documentary; also producer)
  • 1933: Der Schimmelreiter (also screenplay)
  • 1935: Pole Poppenspäler (director)
  • 1935: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (short documentary film; also screenplay)
  • 1937: The stone miracles of Naumburg. A film based on recordings by Kurt Oertel (short documentary; also director, producer)
  • 1938/1940: Michelangelo - The Life of a Titan (documentary, also director and screenplay)
  • 1947: Elektra must bear grief (short documentary; also director, screenplay and producer)
  • 1948/1950: The year 48 (short documentary; also director, producer, editor, screenplay)
  • 1949/1950: It was a man (documentary; also director, editor, screenplay, producer)
  • 1950: The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (US revision of Oertels Michelangelo , 1940 film)
  • 1950: Land am Nil (short documentary; also producer)
  • 1951/1952: Fountain of Youth (short documentary film; director, producer, editor)
  • 1952: The Obedient Rebel (documentary; also director, producer)
  • 1954: New World (documentary; also director, screenplay, producer)
  • 1957: Impressions from a theater (short documentary film; also director, producer)

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personal data
SURNAME Oertel, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertel, Curt Franz Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterfeld (near Naumburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1960
Place of death Wiesbaden or Limburg