Erich Holder

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Erich Holder (born March 21, 1901 in Berlin , † December 3, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German production manager , film producer , assistant director , actor and director .

Life

Erich Holder worked in film since 1921 . He began his career as an assistant director, including in 1925 on the film drama Tartüff by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . As assistant director, he was also involved in the silent film Metropolis by Fritz Lang involved.

Holder worked in various functions at Universum Film AG (UFA) with producer Bruno Duday . Holder was manager , among others in the films The Death Loop (1928), Sprengbagger 1010 (1929) and Her Highness commands (1930/1931). As an assistant director he was on the films The Death Loop (1928), Rose Monday (1930), The False Husband (1931), My Wife, the Impostor (1932), A Great Idea (1932), The White Demon (1932) and Wenn die Love makes fashion (1932) involved.

Since 1931 he was director and producer at Universum Film AG (UFA), primarily responsible for film comedies and melodramas . In 1933/1934 he worked as a production assistant for Duday on a number of films, including the comedies Inge und die Mio. (1933), Once a Grand Lady (1933/1934) and The Girlfriend of a Great Man (1934). In 1935 he directed the film comedy Fresh Wind from Canada .

After that, Holder finally switched to film production and became production manager at UFA. At the end of the 1930s he became production manager there , and in 1939 production group leader. As production manager, Holder was mainly involved in top productions of the UFA, including the melodrama final chord with Lil Dagover and several melodramas and film comedies with Zarah Leander : Zu neue Ufern , La Habanera and Der Blaufuchs . As producer and production manager, he was also responsible for supervising and completing the films Immensee and Sacrifice , which were made simultaneously in 1942/43 under the direction of Veit Harlan .

After the Second World War , Holder continued his work as a production manager and film producer. He was the production manager for the early post-war films Sag Die Truth (1946) and King of Hearts (1947), the first films made in the Western Zones with British and French approval respectively .

In the 1950s he worked as a production manager and film producer at various Berlin and West German film production companies. He was also seen as an actor in the two fairy tale films Heinzelmännchen and Tischlein deck dich . He embodied the role of the butcher in Die Heinzelmännchen .

Towards the end of his career, Holder switched to television ; from 1958 to 1962 he was production manager for the crime series Stahlnetz .

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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 25.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ralph Trost: A completely destroyed city: National Socialism, War and the end of the war in Xanten p. 285 (excerpts from Google Books)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Jacobsen / Werner Sudendorf: Metrópolis: a cinematic laboratory of modern architecture p. 72 (excerpts from Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Holder, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production manager, film producer, assistant director, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1974
Place of death Hamburg