George Schnéevoigt

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George Schnéevoigt (* December 23, 1893 as Fritz George Ernst Fischer in Copenhagen ; † February 6, 1961 there ) was a Danish cameraman , film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

George Schnéevoigt was a pioneer of Scandinavian cinema. Together with his mother, the Finnish theater actress Siri Fischer-Schnéevoigt, he traveled to Berlin at the age of 14. There he received acting lessons from Ludwig Hartau and Tilla Durieux . Then you saw the 18-year-old in small roles at the New Playhouse . In addition, Schnéevoigt received further training in photography and camera technology. In 1912 he returned to Copenhagen and, not yet 20 years old, began working as a cameraman and director for a small film company. In 1915 he was hired by the Nordisk manufacturing company and continued to work in both roles. Working with the director Carl Theodor Dreyer , George Schnéevoigt reached his artistic zenith immediately after the end of the First World War .

In 1920/21 George Schnéevoigt photographed several films in Sweden and Norway, after a stopover in Copenhagen in 1924 he also made a film ( Pietro, the Corsair ) in Germany. In 1926 and 1928/29 George Schnéevoigt went back to Norway for several engagements. From 1928 he only worked as a director. His specialty was Nordic fabrics, "in which he included the landscape as a central action and design element." Schnéevoigt shot his first sound film " Eskimo " in Greenland in 1930 in a Danish and a German-language version. His love story " Laila " (1936), set in Lapland and which he had staged for the first time as a silent film in Norway in 1928/29, also attracted attention .

"Schnéevoigt's productions were characterized by a simplicity in terms of content and design, at times of great naturalistic naivety." In 1942, George Schnéevoigt, who had always shot his sound film productions with the cameraman Valdemar Hermann Christensen, ended his cinematic activities.

Private

In February 1915 he was his first marriage to the Danish dancer Tilly von Kaulbach (1874–1966), who was almost 20 years his senior, for whose company "Kaulbach's Art Film" he had directed three films in 1913. His stepson Fridtjof Kaulbach, who was born in Germany in 1901 and who had acted in these films, was a godchild Fridtjof Nansen and was named after his godfather.

George Schnéevoigt's mother Siri Schnéevoigt had worked in his 1937 film Laila , which was shown in September 1938 as The Dark Call in the German Reich.

His son Alf Bent George Schnéevoigt (1915–1982) also worked as a cameraman, but only during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II . In addition, George Schnéevoigt was the nephew of Jean Sibelius .

Filmography

As a cameraman

As a director

  • 1913: Skyggedanserinden (also screenplay)
  • 1915: Skelethånden
  • 1915: Fædrenes synd
  • 1916: Dance of Death (Dødedansen)
  • 1916: Kong Alavarika gravkammer
  • 1918: Dykkerklokkens hemmerlighed (also screenplay)
  • 1926: Baldevin's bryllup
  • 1929: Laila - The Daughter of the North (Laila) (also screenplay)
  • 1930: The White God (Eskimo) (also screenplay)
  • 1931: Hotel Paradis
  • 1931: Præsten i Vejlby
  • 1932: Skal vi vædde en million?
  • 1932: Odds 777
  • 1932: Kirke and organ
  • 1932: Nyhavn 17
  • 1932: 13 år (also script)
  • 1933: De blå drenge
  • 1933: Kobberbryllup
  • 1933: Tango
  • 1934: Lynet
  • 1934: Rasmines bryllup
  • 1934: Nøddebo præstegård
  • 1935: The Governor of the Tsar (Fredløs) (also screenplay)
  • 1936: Ite trækning
  • 1937: The Dark Call / Where the Reindeer Move (Laila)
  • 1938: Champagnegaloppen
  • 1939: Circus
  • 1940: Jeg har elsket og levet
  • 1942: Alle mand på dæk
  • 1942: Tordenskjold går i land

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 143.

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 143.
  • International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 5 Denmark-Finland, Norway-Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984). Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1986, p. 123.
  • Black dream and white slave. German-Danish film relations 1910–1930. A CineGraph book. Ed. v. Hans-Michael Bock, Wolfgang Jacobsen and Jörg Schöning. Red .: Manfred Behn, Munich 1994, p. 150.

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