Georg Victor Mendel

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Georg Victor Mendel , also Georg Viktor Mendel , (born December 5, 1881 in Berlin , † May 26, 1942 ibid) was a German director , cameraman , author, film critic and production designer . He became known, among other things, through his early film adaptations of novels by the bestselling author E. Marlitt .

Life

The merchant's son attended high schools in Berlin and Waren . Mendel then completed an apprenticeship in the book trade. After the death of his father, Mendel began to study medicine and natural sciences in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Munich up to graduation (each doctorate). Afterwards, he said he went to the tropics for ten years. During this time he wants to have made scientific films for various domestic and foreign companies ( Pathé , Duskes, NPG). One of these films was called Trypanosoma gambiense and consisted of micrographs from West Africa . When war broke out in 1914 , Mendel was drafted and, according to his own statements, was wounded three times. In 1916 he was released back into civilian life.

He claims to have shot his first feature film with Danny Kaden . It was called Unleashed Flames . Between 1916 and 1919, Mendel made a number of utility films in a variety of roles in which he also took up current issues at the time, for example in his first film The Death at Silva Colliery, worm diseases in miners; During these years several dramas based on the trivial novels by E. Marlitt were written . He also wrote a few books on film theory and from January 1923 worked as a critic for the “ Lichtbild-Bühne ”. In 1926 he judged German film emigrants in Hollywood that they "either failed because of the system there or, like Lubitsch, became completely Americans".

Mendel, who was the editor-in-chief of the Kinematographische Monatshefte , claims to have made numerous expedition trips. European film trips took him to Switzerland , Italy and Austria-Hungary . According to his own admission, he gave up filming in 1922 after losing his right eye.

Works (selection)

  • 1926: Georg Viktor Mendel: The practical demonstrator: theory and practice of cinematographic projection with esp. Berücks. d. Electrical engineering, optics, etc. Mechanics . Berlin, Verlag der Lichtbildbühne
  • 1927: Georg Victor Mendel: The practical cameraman: Theory and practice of cinematographic recording technology with special consideration of scientific amateur filmmaking , Volume 3, Verlag der "Lichtbildbühne"
  • 1930: Georg Victor Mendel: In the Magic Realm of Films , Verlag R. Bong (children's book)
  • undated: Georg Viktor Mendel: Primeval world in the primeval forest. edit after d. The same film from Ufa Decla. Berlin, photo stage. (= Cinema library 4)

Filmography

  • 1916: Death at Silva colliery
  • 1916: sword and stove
  • 1916: magic drops
  • 1917: The Strasbourg antiquarian
  • 1917: The woman with the carbuncle stones
  • 1917: Five finger marks
  • 1917: In the House of the Commerce Council
  • 1917: When the voice of the blood speaks
  • 1917: The wild Ursula
  • 1918: Out of fear
  • 1918: The Owl House
  • 1918: The secret of old Mamsell
  • 1918: Goldelse, based on the novel of the same name
  • 1918: The Heideprinzchen
  • 1918: Lumpenmüller's Lieschen
  • 1919: Mamsell Unnütz
  • 1919: Countess Gisela
  • 1919: Dedicated to the devil
  • 1919: freedom, equality, fraternity!
  • 1919: Mary Wood, the convict's daughter
  • 1921: Karlchen on the move
  • 1929: Dangerous pests
  • 1929: Silver condor over Tierra del Fuego (adaptation)

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 121 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Ferd, Siegert: Bürgerliches Self-Understanding, Cinema Reform and Early School Film. A cultural studies analysis . 1995, p. 162 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2015 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. (PDF; 6.8 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dok.uni-lueneburg.de
  2. ↑ filmgalerie.de ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmgalerie.de
  3. ↑ quoted from: University of California Press: Hollywood in Berlin ; therein: 7 .: German-American Production in Hollywood and the Meaning of National Cinema
  4. ↑ The Film in the Weimar Republic: A Handbook of Contemporary Criticism. Edited by Gero Gandert. Berlin, New York 1993, p. 601
personal data
SURNAME Mendel, Georg Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendel, Georg Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, cameraman, screenwriter, film critic and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1942
Place of death Berlin