George Hoellering

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George Hoellering (before emigration Georg Michael Höllering ; born July 20, 1897 in Baden near Vienna ; died February 10, 1980 in London ) was an Austro-British cinema manager and film director .

Life

Georg Michael Höllering's father Georg Höllering was a theater musician and theater director. His older brother was the journalist Franz Höllering (1896–1968). His sister Anna Höllering (1895–1987) was an actress and later an editor in German film. The other sister Magdalena Höllering (1899–1994) later emigrated to England.

Georg Michael Höllering held the license for the Schikaneder Kino, founded in 1906 in the Vienna district of Wieden , from 1919 to 1924 . He worked in the film industry and made and edited medical educational films . In 1932 he was in Germany producing the feature films Tannenberg and Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? involved. Under the Nazi threat, he moved back to Vienna in 1932, where his son Andreas was born in 1933. After the February uprising in 1934 he went to Hungary, where he shot the film Hortobágy with the cameraman László Schäffer in the Puszta of Hortobágy . They were able to win the Budapest bank clerk László Passuth to finance the shooting, and the later writer Passuth assisted with the shooting during his vacation. Zsigmond Móricz wrote a story and a script for the resulting documentary film material .

The film premiered in Vienna in January 1937 and in Budapest in March 1937, where it failed the audience but was well received by the press, such as by Sándor Márai . The feature film with amateur actors took neither the viewing habits nor the entertainment needs of the urban cinema audience into consideration and, at 80 minutes, appeared to contemporary film critics to be too long. The underlying music by László Lajtha also did not correspond to the expected puszta sounds with which the operetta and film music had shaped the audience's taste . The film received four editions of ten minutes from the film censorship of the Horthy regime , the censors clashed with the mating scenes with horses and storks , the birth of a foal and the burial of a horse carcass . The film could, however, be exported uncut and was thus preserved as a whole. In Great Britain, the uncut version was only performed after 1945 due to possible reservations in the audience.

1936 emigrated Höllering with his wife and child to the UK and was designed by Elsie Cohen in cinema "Cinema Academy" in London's Oxford Street busy, bomb damage interrupted from 1940 operation. In 1940 Hoellering was briefly interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man , where he performed the ballad from the German Refugee in the camp theater with Hans Gál . From 1942 Hoellering produced several documentaries for the British Ministry of Information . Among other things, he shot the documentary Message from Canterbury with the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple in 1944 and met TS Eliot . He got a speaking role in the 1951 film Murder in the Cathedral made by Hoellering based on Eliot's verse drama Murder in the Cathedral . For the music, Hoellering brought in Lajtha again. The black and white film won an award at the Venice International Film Festival in 1951.

From 1944 to 1980 Hoellering was director of the "Academy Cinema", which was also converted into a multiplex cinema in its era , and from 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the board of directors of the British Film Institute , another institution of British cultural life. In addition, Hoellering was for many years CEO of Film Traders Ltd. , which specialized in the distribution of foreign language films.

Movies

literature

  • René Geoffroy: Hungary as a place of refuge and place of work for German-speaking emigrants (1933 - 1938/39) . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 294-297.
  • Eduard Höllering: Georg and Franz Höllering and the Sudeten German theaters. Two biographies . Sudeten German Music Institute, Regensburg 1998.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Höllering: Georg and Franz Höllering , 1998, pp. 10–24
  2. ↑ a b c d e András Szefkü: An Austro-Hungarian Film Director: George M. Hoellering (1897-1980) , 2013
  3. ↑ Eduard Höllering: Georg and Franz Höllering , 1998, p. 9
  4. ↑ Erich and Magdalena Schulhof , at Wiener Library , her son-in-law: en: David Thomson (writer)
  5. ^ A b René Geoffroy: Hungary as a place of refuge , 2001, pp. 294–297
  6. ^ Passuth László: A Hortobágy-film legendája , in: Nyugat , September 1935
  7. ↑ Moricz Zsigmond: Komor Ló - A Hortobágy legendája in: Pesti Napló , 1934
  8. ↑ Elsie Cohen in WSBC
  9. ^ The ballad from the German Refugee , at DNB
  10. ^ Brian McFarlane (ed.): The Encyclopedia of British Film. 3rd edition. Methuen, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-413-77660-0 , p. 348.
  11. ↑ For the film Hortobágy see IMDb and also fr: Hortobágy (film) in the French Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Hoellering, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Michael Höllering (birth name); Georg M. Höllering; GMH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1980
Place of death London