Döring film

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The Döring film (also: Döring film works ) was a German on cultural , educational and promotional films of specialized film producer and film distributor .

history

The Döring-Film was founded in 1919 at the beginning of the Weimar Republic by the businessman Friedrich Döring (born July 5, 1892 in Harriehausen ; † August 1, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) and his brother as the Hanover Society for Cinematography . Around four years later - at the height of German hyperinflation - the company was transformed into a GmbH , in which the engineer Dietrich W. Dreyer joined as a partner and acted as technical director , while Friedrich Döring remained commercial director.

The company specialized in cultural and educational films, but above all in advertising films. Of these film genres , “at least 60 films” were produced in Hanover alone during the Weimar Republic under changing names, addresses, partners and legal forms, but mostly under the direction of Dietrich W. Dreyer . The face of a city is considered one of the most important, and at the same time “the most important Hanover film from the time before the Second World War”.

During the Nazi era , Friedrich Döring became chairman of the Association of German Culture, Educational and Advertising Film Manufacturers ("Lehrfilmbund"), which was affiliated with the Reich Film Chamber . At the same time Döring became a member of the administrative advisory board of the Reichsfilmkammer. At the turn of the year 1933/1934, the company's headquarters were finally relocated to Berlin . The Döring-Filmwerke produced u. a. for the Reichsbahn the short propaganda film Let it go! for the campaign Wheels must roll for victory! .

After the Second World War , Friedrich Döring initially received no license from the military government to continue his film productions due to the close proximity to the collapsed Nazi dictatorship . Only in the Federal Republic of Germany was Döring able to found the film distribution company Döring-Film GmbH in Düsseldorf in 1949 . This company went bankrupt in 1954 and was deleted from the commercial register in 1958 .

Fonts

  • Richard Brodführer: Mind and Machine. From the manuscript to the finished book. A major book trade film by Döring-Film-Werke, Hanover , director: August Koch, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1926
  • NN : Practical tips for film advertising , Berlin: Döring Filmwerke [1937]

Film productions (incomplete)

  • 1932: The face of a city , director: August Koch, camera: August Lutz; Original format: 35mm b / w, length: 37 minutes

literature

  • Irmgard Wilharm: The Döring-Film, chief engineer Dreyer and the ocean liners , in Susanne Höbermann, Pamela Müller (editor), Cornelia Groterjahn, Anne Pohl, Christine Schwarz (collaborator): Wir Wunderkinder. 100 years of film production in Lower Saxony , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Historical Museum Hanover from October 15, 1995 to January 14, 1996, ed. by the Society for Film Studies in cooperation with the Historisches Museum Hannover, Hannover: [1995?], pp. 35–48
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : DÖRING, Friedrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , passim ; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Döring film. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 137.
  • Peter Stettner : biography and filmography of Johann Friedrich Döring. In: Hans-Michael Bock (Hrsg.): CineGraph - Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film ( loose leaf collection ), Munich: Edition Text and Criticism, 1984ff.
  • Peter Stettner: On the making of the film. In: The face of a city. The original film by Döring-Film-Werke , booklet accompanying the DVD in the DVD edition series “Hannover Films” , ed. from the Society for Film Studies eV (GFS), Hanover: GFS [o. D.], p. 3ff.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Waldemar R. Röhrbein: DÖRING ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library on the font Praktische Winke ... (see section Fonts )
  3. ↑ a b Peter Stettner (responsible), Jan Hitz (employee): Face of a city ... (see under the section Web links )
  4. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Döring-Film (see literature)