Fritz Kaufmann (director)
Friedrich "Fritz" Kaufmann (born November 1, 1889 in Charlottenburg , German Empire , † 1957 in Santurce , Puerto Rico ) was a German director , screenwriter , cameraman , film producer , production manager and architect .
Life
After graduating from high school, Kaufmann began studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin- Charlottenburg and graduated with a state examination as a graduate engineer . He then went freelance as an architect. Shortly after the end of the First World War , the film production company Deutsche Bioscop hired him to head their architecture department. In addition, Kaufmann also worked as an inventor of film technology equipment - the so-called "Hochformator" comes from him - and also worked as a journalist for a number of international (US, Dutch and Italian) publications. After Decla Kaufmann temporarily hired him as a dramaturge, the Berliner was able to present his first film director in 1922 with “ Schminke ”.
Kaufmann, married to Ada Rosenberg since 1919, fled headlong to France in March 1933, leaving behind all his belongings, as the family was warned in good time by a friend of their impending arrest. In 1939 his wife died completely unexpectedly. Later he and his daughter Germaine Kaufmann (later: Shafran) were interned in the Camp de Gurs . However, they managed to escape and they reached the United States in 1941.
Filmography
- 1922: Make-up
- 1922: The only witness
- 1923: The big industrialist
- 1924: The house by the sea
- 1925: The woman without money
- 1925: women and banknotes
- 1925: marriage advertisements
- 1925: Reveille, the great awakening
- 1927: The rough shirt
- 1927: love goes strange ways
- 1928: The man without a job
- 1930: There are still cavaliers
- 1930: And you can only be so lucky
- 1930: room 107
literature
- Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 92.
- Germaine H. Shafran: Never say die! Never give up! Published by the Active Museum Spiegelgasse for German-Jewish History in Wiesbaden eV Foreword by Karlheinz Schneider. Afterword by Vera Bendt. Edition 6065, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-941072-04-6 .
Web links
- Fritz Kaufmann at filmportal.de
- Fritz Kaufmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 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. on the website of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
- ↑ Article at www.wiesbaden.de
- ↑ Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaufmann, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, screenwriter, cameraman, film producer, production manager and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |
| Place of death | Santurce , Puerto Rico |