Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner (born May 30, 1890 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † June 22, 1972 in London ) was an author , film director and producer .
Life
In Vienna he studied philosophy and literature , worked as a journalist and from 1919 as an author, director and producer for film. He met the young actress Gilda Langer and became engaged to her in early 1920. Before they could work together and get married, Gilda Langer died at the age of 23 on January 31, 1920. In 1920, Paul Czinner's “most important” film - as he said on television in 1970 - was released during his creative period in Vienna: the pre-expressionist one Movie inferno . In Berlin, at that time a career springboard for numerous Austrian filmmakers, he kept in touch with the Austrian authors Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz , who were currently working on the template for “ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ”as well as for Fritz Lang , who was just staging “ The Lord of Love ”and was at the beginning of his successful career. Together they all have expressionist influence in their works. Czinner also reported that he wanted movement in the film and had a camera mounted on a tricycle for this purpose. This is said to have been the first driving recording, which was then used and further developed worldwide.
In 1924 Czinner offered Elisabeth Bergner the lead role in his film Nju , and she also became his partner in private. As Jews , after Hitler came to power in 1933, they fled first to Vienna and then to London , where they married. In 1934, Czinner directed Katharina the Great with his wife in the lead role. However, the film was banned in Germany . In 1940 they emigrated to America and worked on Broadway . After the end of the war they returned to England , where Czinner shot successful ballet and opera adaptations ( Don Giovanni , Der Rosenkavalier ).
Filmography
- 1919: Inferno
- 1924: Nju
- 1925: Jealousy (script only)
- 1926: The violinist from Florence
- 1926: love
- 1927: Doña Juana
- 1929: Miss Else
- 1929: The Road of Lost Souls (The Woman He Scorned)
- 1930: Ariane
- 1932: The dreaming mouth
- 1934: Catherine the Great
- 1935: Never leave me again
- 1936: As You Like It
- 1939: Stolen Life
- 1955: Don Giovanni
- 1957: Bolshoi Ballet (The Bolshoi Ballet)
- 1960: The Royal Ballet
- 1962: The Rosenkavalier
- 1966: Romeo and Juliet
Awards
- 1967: Federal Film Prize (Honorary Prize)
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. P. 130 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
- Michael Omasta, Brigitte Mayr: Paul Czinner - The man behind Elisabeth Bergner. SYNEMA publications, Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-901644-49-8 .
- Czinner, Paul , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 63
- Czinner, Paul , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 199
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Czinner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Czinner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paul Czinner at filmportal.de
- Entry on Paul Czinner at litkult1920er.aau.at , a project of the University of Klagenfurt
Individual proof
- ↑ Ilona Brennicke, Joe Hembus, Robert Fischer: Classics of German Silent Films, 1910–1930, p. 57 [1]
- ^ Film history (s) from Austria . Ten-part television documentary series by ORF , Vienna 1970–1972, from: Walter Fritz: In the cinema I experience the world - 100 years of cinema and film in Austria . Vienna 1996
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czinner, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Author, film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1972 |
| Place of death | London |