Erich Grave

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Erich Grave (born March 22, 1891 in Leipzig , † August 19, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German film architect and set designer .

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Grave received practical training in stage painting. After his military service 1914-18 he was employed as a stage painter . At the beginning of the 1920s, Grave began to assist production designers in film (for example Martin Jacoby-Boy in 1922 in So are the men ). Active as chief architect since 1927, Grave initially only carried out designs by the established stage designer and Grave teacher Prof. Ernst Stern .

At the beginning of the sound film age he returned to the stage for a while, from 1934 Grave also participated in film construction again. In the Third Reich, Erich Grave cooperated intensively with the former protégés Arnold Fancks , Luis Trenker and Leni Riefenstahl . For them, he designed the backdrops for the lavish large-scale projects Der Kaiser von California , Condottieri , Der Berg ruft , Der Feuerdufel and Tiefland . Erich Grave provided one of his most interesting works on Peter Pewas ' emancipatory women's story The Enchanted Day , which was banned from performance in the Third Reich .

Grave began his post-war career in 1947 at the Junge Film-Union of the Hamburg producer and director Rolf Meyer . After that he also worked for other production companies.

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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. 367.

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SURNAME Grave, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1955
Place of death Berlin