Georg Dengel

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Fred Dengel, Fredy Dengel, Edwin Georg Dengel, Eddie Constantine , Freilichtkinotage Wiesbaden (August 1986)
Movie poster "The man with the death mask", AXA-Film-Co., Wiesbaden, 1920
Poster, portrait by Edy Dengel, around 1922

Edwin Georg "Edy" Dengel (born February 4, 1901 in Wiesbaden ; † September 28, 1987 there ) was a German film pioneer.

life and work

With his production company Axa film-Werke GmbH (Wiesbaden) he produced, among other things as a 35mm silent film created feature films The Castle of Secrets (1919), The Man with a death mask (1920), Patsy married young (1925) and the now -lost Repps and Webbs (1925). Dengel also produced documentaries such as Idstein im Taunus (1925) and Der Rhein in Eisfesseln (1929), which is the rare natural spectacle of a frozen Rhine in front of Biebrich Castleshows. In addition to his work as a screenwriter, director and producer, he appeared in several of his films as an actor, including several times in the role of the private detective "Fred Repps".

He showed his films in a cinema in Wiesbaden-Biebrich that he operated himself . The screening of the silent film Repps and Webbs , which, among other things, deals with the “kidnapping of girls”, was prohibited by the film inspection agency in November 1925 because the film had a “demoralizing effect”. Two assessors appealed against the decision. The film inspectorate reversed the decision three days later, but did not allow it to be shown in front of young people.

During the Nazi era, Dengel was banned from running his production company. Since he refused military service under Hitler , he was temporarily on the run during the Second World War . In the post-war period Dengel traded in industrial machines, hardware and motors. He died with his family at the age of 86.

A grandson of Dengel is the visual artist Robert Georg Achtel (* 1980) , who also lives in Wiesbaden .

Historical meaning

The historical significance of his work is dealt with in the book Hollywood am Kochbrunnen (1995), the silent film Das Schloss des Schreckens (1919) is therefore considered to be the origin of Wiesbaden's history as a film city, and brought Edy Dengel the reputation of "James Bond of the 20s " a. On the initiative of Harald Schleicher (Academy of Fine Arts, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ), Uwe Schriefer and Meinhold Schmitz, the film was reconstructed in 1987 by Taunusfilm in cooperation with the Mettman trick studios (copy on 35mm security film ) and has since been several times by Uwe Schriefer demonstrated.

A special feature of Dengel's work was the skillful use of his hometown Wiesbaden-Biebrich as a backdrop to suggest an action in New York to the audience . This is what the documentary "The Rhine as Hudson , the Bachgass as Bowery " broadcast on ARD in 1987 deals with - the world of the film pioneer Edy Dengel by Harald Schleicher.

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 40 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiesbaden.de ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 8, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbaden.de
  2. ↑ "Repps and Webb's" (1925) of lost in the list films of the Federal Archives (PDF file, 125 kB)
  3. ^ Axa-Film-Werke GmbH (Wiesbaden). In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on September 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Decision of the Film Inspectorate of November 25, 1925 ( Memento of the original of November 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
  5. ↑ Decision of the film supervisory board of November 28, 1925 ( Memento of the original of November 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
  6. ↑ "Rangeklotzt; The building studies of Geebird & Bamby" photograph (magazine) ff, 03/2014, page 104th
  7. ^ Horst Goschke: Hollywood at the Kochbrunnen: Films in Wiesbaden; the infinite dream of the dream factory . Rhein Main publishing group 1995
  8. ^ Horst Goschke: Hollywood at the Kochbrunnen: Films in Wiesbaden; the infinite dream of the dream factory , p. 97
  9. ↑ " Prof. Dr. Harald Schleicher  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. " At the Film Commission Hessen@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.film-commission-hessen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Dengel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dengel, Edwin Georg (full name); Dengel, Edy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1987
Place of death Wiesbaden