Frederik Fuglsang

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Frederik Fuglsang (born December 12, 1887 in Vamdrup , Denmark , † April 2, 1953 in Germany ) was a Danish cameraman who mainly worked in German film.

Live and act

Fuglsang received his photography training in Denmark and joined the film production company Nordisk Film in 1911 . There he rose to head cameraman over the next two years. Above all, Fuglsang was responsible for photographing Lau Lauritzen's films . In October 1915 he accepted an invitation to Berlin and made his debut in a war propagandist strip the following year. He did his first two important camerawork for Paul Wegener's fairy tale films Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland and Der Pattenfänger . In 1917 Fuglsang returned temporarily to Copenhagen for two film assignments . Permanently resident in Berlin since 1917, the Dane received a multi-year contract from the production company PAGU.

There he continued his collaboration with Wegener on The Foreign Prince, Apocalypse and The Galley Convict until 1919. Afterwards Frederik Fuglsang also worked for other directors. In the early 1920s, Fuglsang was involved in two detective series by director Georg Jacoby , of which Der Mann ohne Namen was filmed in his Danish homeland in 1921. His later camera work was rarely for artistically above average films; He also appeared as a cameraman for the Danish directors Holger-Madsen and Benjamin Christensen ( His wife, the unknown , 1923) , who were staged in Germany .

However, only his photographs of the literary adaptations Die Weber by Friedrich Zelnik based on Gerhart Hauptmann 's drama of the same name and Jacques Feyder's You shall not commit adultery came to him above average . after Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin . With you I loved , Fuglsang heralded the age of talkies in Germany in 1929.

A little later he lost his role as a picture designer in film and a little later he was shooting almost exclusively short and documentary films. Since 1940 Fuglsang, meanwhile naturalized in the German Reich, has been photographing documentary and industrial films by Eros Film. He shot six to eight of these mostly short to medium-length films between 1942 and 1944 alone, year after year. After the Second World War , Frederik Fuglsang photographed scientific films and was active in the field of color film technology for DEFA .

His wife was the actress Käte Fuglsang (born April 24, 1903 in Berlin).

Filmography

  • 1925: The secret of old Mamsell
  • 1925: Letters that did not reach him
  • 1926: The Sanssouci mill
  • 1926: The Forester Christian
  • 1926: On the beautiful blue Danube
  • 1926: The laughing cricket
  • 1927: The dancing Vienna
  • 1927: The weavers
  • 1928: You shall not commit adultery!
  • 1928: Knight of the Night
  • 1928: The saint and her fool
  • 1928: The red circle
  • 1929: my sister and me
  • 1929: Pat and Patachon as cannibals (Hello! Afrika forude!)
  • 1929: Pat and Patachon as fashion kings (Højt på en kvist)
  • 1929: The Baskerville Hound
  • 1929: The youth lover
  • 1929: I loved you
  • 1930: morale at midnight
  • 1930: The Corvette Captain
  • 1931: Grock
  • 1931: Elisabeth of Austria
  • 1931: Gloria
  • 1931: Night column
  • 1931: Straw widower
  • 1933: Alala
  • 1935: A sea voyage is fun
  • 1936: Sinfonía vasca
  • 1936: Under the Slipper (short film)
  • 1937: Werbellin's Mill (short film)
  • 1937: Stift and its gang
  • 1937: The Pfennig Battle (short film)
  • 1938: Drops becomes a pilot (short film)
  • 1938: The spindles are buzzing (short documentary film)
  • 1938: La sposa dei re

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. 136 f.

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