Edmund Heuberger

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Carl Edmund Heuberger (born April 28, 1883 in Aarau , Switzerland ; † April 9, 1962 in Zurich ) was a Swiss theater actor , film architect , screenwriter and director for German films.

Live and act

Heuberger came to Germany when he was four. There he started his artistic career as an actor at the municipal theater in Lahr (Baden) in the late summer of 1904 . The following theater stations were Herne (1906/07), Eschwege (1907/08), Großenhain (1908/09), Bautzen (1909/10), Bamberg and Leipzig (1910/11) and Wiesbaden (1912/13).

At the beginning of the First World War , Heuberger came to Berlin, where he made contact with the cinema. Initially he designed the film structures for dramas produced by Richard Eichberg with Ellen Richter in the lead role. At the end of the war in 1918 he was allowed to direct a film for the first time with the crime thriller " Schirokko ", but it was only ten years later that the Swiss finally asserted himself as a director. In the meantime Heuberger worked as a manager and has written several screenplays for the sensationalism, adventure and circus films Harry Piel and Eddie Polo . In 1929/30 several manuscripts were written for late silent film series products around the adventurer Lux (" The Man in the Dark", "The Green Lantern", "Paris Underworld", "Twice Lux ").

The German by choice survived the transition to sound film and the Third Reich without prejudice; In 1938, however, Heuberger decided to turn his back on National Socialism and returned to Switzerland after an absence of more than half a century.

There he realized the abortion drama “ Dilemma ” in 1940, a dramatic and ambitious story with the emigrant Fritz Schulz in a leading role. The Swiss-German dialogues were written by Paul Altheer, the music by Hans Haug . The film was produced by the newly founded "Gotthardfilm GmbH" and distributed by Chiel Weissmann .

The film Das Menschlein Matthias was also released by Emelka in 1941 . Heuberger was the director and the leading actors were u. a. Röbi Rapp , Leopold Biberti , Sigfrid Steiner and Hermann Gallinger .

Five more films followed, all made during World War II - stories from home with a social or humorous touch and local flavor. At the age of 60 Edmund Heuberger withdrew into private life.

Film structures

  • 1916: women who sacrifice themselves
  • 1916: the skeleton
  • 1919: people
  • 1919: The Ghosts of Garden Hall
  • 1919: Starving millionaires
  • 1920: Satan's feast
  • 1920: The uninhabited house
  • 1920: The black spider
  • 1922: The Hell Rider
  • 1924: Wine, women and song
  • 1924: The man without nerves

Film direction

  • 1918: sirocco
  • 1919: Fever nights
  • 1920: The sun of Asia
  • 1928: thieves
  • 1929: The adolescents
  • 1929: special registration
  • 1929: To life and death
  • 1929: The man in the dark
  • 1929: Secret police
  • 1930: Witnesses wanted
  • 1930: Parisian underworld
  • 1930: The green lantern
  • 1930: twice lux
  • 1931: Poor little Eva
  • 1932: The Secret Agent (dialogue director)
  • 1932: Billi struggles through life (short film)
  • 1933: K 1 intervenes!
  • 1933: Housekeeping ... ring three times
  • 1934: The lost valley
  • 1935: Muckmeier's summer retreat (short film)
  • 1936: We're moving (short film)
  • 1936: Luggage receipt 712 (short film)
  • 1940: Is Dr. Ferrat guilty? (Dilemma)
  • 1941: little human Matthias
  • 1941: special train
  • 1941: The last postilion from St. Gotthard
  • 1942: The Cone King (Dr Chegelkönig)
  • 1943: Poste restante 212

Scripts

  • 1923: people and masks
  • 1925: Faster than death
  • 1925: Adventure in the night express
  • 1926: The black Pierrot
  • 1927: A Night's Riddle
  • 1928: thieves
  • 1929: The adolescents
  • 1929: special registration
  • 1929: The man in the dark
  • 1931: Bobby goes
  • 1932: The secret agent
  • 1933: K 1 intervenes!
  • 1933: Housekeeping ... ring three times
  • 1934: The lost valley
  • 1936: We're moving (short film)
  • 1938: The 100 marks are gone (short film)
  • 1938: How do I get rid of the pearl? (Short film)
  • 1941: The last postilion from St. Gotthard
  • 1942: The Cone King (Dr Chegelkönig)
  • 1943: Poste restante 212

Film reel

  • 1921: The cowboy's bride

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 663.
  • 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. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 239 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dilemma. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Movie poster for "The little human Matthias". Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Movie poster. The last postillon from St. Gotthard. Heimat-Film Produktionsgesellschaft / Distribution Resta-Film Zürch, accessed on June 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heuberger, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heuberger, Carl Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater actor, film architect, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1962
Place of death Zurich