Eduard Hoesch

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Eduard Hoesch (born March 15, 1890 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † November 5, 1983 ibid, Austria ) was an Austrian cameraman and film producer .

Life

As early as 1908 he began his film career as a cameraman for the writer and director Felix Dörmann and was thus one of the camera pioneers in Austrian film . From 1913 he worked in his own capacity for Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky and his Sascha-Film . In addition to his work in feature films, he also shot for many newsreel productions in Germany and abroad. During the First World War he served as a war correspondent . In 1917 he was appointed by Emperor Karl to be his "personal operator". For example, he filmed him when he was praying for his troops to be fortunate in weapons in the propaganda film “Our Emperor” . In the heyday of German-language silent films in the 1920s , he was a cameraman in around 90 silent films . From around 1930 he shot for about as many sound films . In 1936 he was responsible for the camera in the feature film Drei Mäderl about Schubert . Paul Hörbiger played Franz Schubert .

After the Second World War he founded his own production company, the "Danube Film Production Eduard Hoesch", and was the director of the first Austrian film of the post-war period: The Long Way . In this production, he was also a producer, author, production and recording manager due to a lack of personnel. He worked as a producer until 1962.

Shortly before his 90th birthday, he received the Medal of Honor from the Austrian Film Archive . His estate has been preserved at the Filmarchiv Austria .

His final resting place is in the Heiligenstädter Friedhof (N-11-41) in Vienna.

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SURNAME Hoesch, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cameraman and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1983
Place of death Vienna