Erich Nitzschmann

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Erich Nitzschmann (born February 13, 1901 in Danzig ; †  January 16, 1980 in Potsdam ) was a German cameraman .

Life

On February 15, 1916, he began training as a camera assistant at Decla-Bioscop, the predecessor of the Babelsberg film studio , which he completed on December 15, 1919. He was camera assistant until September 1, 1920, then second cameraman until 1925.

In this role, Nitzschmann was involved in many important productions of the time, including Dr. Mabuse, the player , The Nibelungs , Metropolis and The Last Man . In Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod , he was responsible for the recordings in the old German part.

From 1926 he was chief cameraman, but was unable to make a name for himself and worked again as a camera assistant at Tobis from 1930 until August 31, 1941 , only in 1936 he was one of many cameramen who were available to Leni Riefenstahl for her two-part Olympia .

From September 1941 he was again an independent cameraman at Tobis until he was drafted into the Air Force as a driver in March 1944. He became an American prisoner of war, from which he was released in July 1945.

In 1946, Nitzschmann joined DEFA, which had been founded shortly before . He filmed articles for her newsreel Der Augenzeuge and received the first Heinrich Greif Prize, 1st class, with others on May 25, 1951 . This was followed by numerous documentaries that were all about state ideology and particularly showed SED party conferences, youth meetings, state acts and state-controlled mass demonstrations. By 1960 he made over 25 films of this type.

He then worked again as a newsreel cameraman and was a member of the collective responsible for recordings at the State Council of the GDR . In 1965 he left DEFA because of invalidity.

Filmography

1921: The tired death 1921: The murder on Green Street 1925: On the Grieshuus chronicle 1926: The student from Prague 1927: Queen of Spades 1927: The secret of Abbe X 1928: The last gala performance of the Wolfson Circus 1929: Your dark point 1930: Police spy 77 1930: The woman without nerves 1936: Olympia (2 parts) 1942: Symphony of a Life 1942: Lache Bajazzo 1942: Two in one big city 1942: My friend Josefine 1943: Great night 1943: a happy person

1944: life calls 1946: Berlin under construction 1946: SPD-KPD unit 1950: always ready 1951: friendship wins 1951: Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president 1952: Blue pennants in the summer wind 1953: The Song of the Streams 1954: Ludwig van Beethoven 1954: The big initiative 1955: Encounters with Wilhelm Pieck 1955: We carry the guns 1956: The Dresden Kreuzchor 1956: The fourth party congress 1957: Märkische novella 1958: Hoffmann's stories 1959: Interview with Berlin

literature

• Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 5, Berlin 2001

Web links

• Erich Nitzschmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)