Georg Muschner (cameraman)

Georg Muschner (born June 12, 1885 in Langenbielau , Reichenbach district , province of Silesia , † May 17, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman .

Life

After graduating from elementary school, he trained as a portrait photographer. He practiced this profession from 1901 until he came into contact with film in 1913. He started here as an operator , was drafted in 1917 and worked for the Image and Film Office until 1918 .

In 1919 he met Harry Piel in Berlin and was his permanent cameraman until 1927. Muschner's spectacular camera work, which was very agile for the time, played a major role in Piel's success.

After that, he mainly worked with the directors Carl Heinz Wolff and JA Hübler-Kahla . In the later years Paul Rischke was often at his side as a co-cameraman.

Filmography

• 1920: Puppets of the devil
• 1920: The prison on the seabed
• 1920: The Despiser of Death
• 1920: The flying car
• 1920: Above the clouds
• 1921: The rider without a head (3 parts)
• 1921: The Prince of the Mountains
• 1922: The black envelope
• 1922: The missing house
• 1923: Judith / Women in the Swamp
• 1923: One Night's Adventure
• 1923: the last fight
• 1923: rivals
• 1923: women's morality
• 1924: people and masks (2 parts)
• 1924: The man without nerves
• 1924: By order of the Pompadour
• 1924: On dangerous tracks
• 1925: Faster than death ( Face à la mort )
• 1925: Adventure in the night express
• 1925: The junk dealer from Amsterdam
• 1925: Zigano, the brigand from Monte Diavolo
• 1926: The black Pierrot
• 1926: Attention Harry! Open eyes!
• 1926: What's going on at the Beely Circus?
• 1927: Conqueror of 1000 dangers
• 1927: The girl without a home
• 1927: A Night's Riddle
• 1927: His biggest bluff
• 1928: Escape from Blond
• 1928: lace panties and cobbler's bad luck
• 1928: Gynecologist Dr. shepherd
• 1928: thieves
• 1929: What a woman dreams in spring
• 1930: Flax man as an educator
• 1930: Pension Schöller
• 1930: The Csikos Baroness
• 1930: The Warsaw Citadel
• 1930: Burglary in the Reichenbach bank
• 1930: freedom in chains
• 1930: rag ball
• 1931: Kyritz - Pyritz
• 1931: perpetrators wanted
• 1931: A greyhound
• 1931: The Battle of Badmünde
• 1932: Mrs. Lehmann's daughters
• 1932: love of hussars
• 1933: Shots at the border
• 1933: Müller travels to winter sports
• 1933: Our emperor
• 1934: If I were king
• 1935: Noise about Weidemann
• 1935: blood brothers
• 1935: dance music
• 1935: Accountant Schnabel
• 1935: A waltz about the Stephansturm
• 1936: Through the desert
• 1936: The mysterious Mister X
• 1936: The violet from Potsdamer Platz
• 1937: The lucky finder
• 1937: Meiseken / Opportunity makes thieves
• 1939: Uncle Fridolin
• 1939: The pretzel

Web links

• Georg Muschner in the Internet Movie Database (English)