Georg Schubert (director)

Georg Hermann Schubert (born June 14, 1879 in Berlin ; † after 1940) was a German cameraman and film director , a pioneer from the early days of German cinematography .

Live and act

Georg Schubert joined the film in 1904, the same year he got married. In the following years he worked for a large number of production companies, including (before the outbreak of war in 1914) the branches of the French Pathé Frères and Gaumont but also for the smaller German companies Continental-Kunstfilm, Dammann-Film, Lloyd-Film, Eiko, Aafa, Moest- Film, Hegewald-Film, Stöckel-Film, Indra-Film and Munich's major company Emelka.

Schubert has been a silent film cameraman since 1913, and since 1916 he has also directed films regularly for several years. At the beginning of 1921 he largely ended his directorial work and concentrated again on the work of a cameraman for a few years. In the mid-1920s, Schubert almost completely disappeared from the public eye and only returned to the director's chair for two less important projects in the sound film. His last work, a compilation and memory strip on the subject of "40 Years of Film" under the title Children, How Time Flies, was released in 1940 and consisted mainly of archive recordings. Only the framework story with Ludwig Schmitz , Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Lisl Riemer was staged by Schubert.

Filmography

as cameraman (selection)

• 1913: The Skagen fisher girl
• 1913: The Skull Hussar
• 1913: Helena, the living torpedo
• 1915: The black hussar
• 1916: crime and love
• 1919: Blond poison
• 1919: Ut mine Stromtid
• 1920: Anna Maria
• 1920: The cowboy billionaire
• 1920: Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• 1920: The Brescia women's refuge
• 1920: The pushover king
• 1921: A rascal prank
• 1921: Hans in luck
• 1921: His lovely mother-in-law
• 1921: crime and love
• 1922: The shipwrecked
• 1922: Monna Vanna
• 1922: Nathan the Wise
• 1923: sacrifice of love
• 1924: The whimsical stories of Theodor Huber

as a director (selection)

• 1916: Bob Cray
• 1916: The invisible man
• 1916: the director
• 1917: the seal
• 1917: The model
• 1917: The lady with the diadem
• 1918: The will marriage
• 1918: The story of Maria Petöffy
• 1919: The misogynist
• 1919: Lot from the woman
• 1919: A girl from a good family
• 1919: forced love in the Free State
• 1919: A moment in paradise
• 1920: Die Erbhose (also screenplay)
• 1920: Such a rascal
• 1920: The lucky pig
• 1921: The divorce lawyer
• 1937: Thoughtful Walk (short documentary film)
• 1940: Children, how time flies (compilation film with a plot)

literature

• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 160

Web links

• Georg Schubert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Georg Schubert at filmportal.de