Gerhard Lamprecht

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Gerhard Lamprecht (born October 6, 1897 in Berlin ; † May 4, 1974 there ) was a German director , screenwriter , dramaturge and film historian.

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Life

Gerhard Lamprecht was interested in cinema as a child. At the age of twelve he was already working at film screenings, and in 1914 he sold his first film manuscript to the Berlin film company Eiko-Film GmbH . From 1916 he also took acting lessons from Paul Bildt , one of the pioneers of German film, and put his knowledge into practice on stage. He studied theater studies and art history in Berlin. In 1917 he was supposed to take up a position as a writer and dramaturge at the Oskar Messter Film Society, but this was due to his conscription to the troops of the First World Warwas foiled. Wounded in 1918, he was already writing scripts again in the hospital. Lupu Pick , with whom he had already worked several times, appointed him in 1919 as chief dramaturge of his company Rex-Film .

In 1920 he directed Es Remains in the Family for the first time . In the then silent film era , he also dealt with the assembly techniques developed by Sergej Eisenstein . Lamprecht had success with literary adaptations, for example in 1923 with an adaptation of Thomas Mann's Die Buddenbrooks and the internationally very successful adaptation Emil and the Detectives of Erich Kästner's novel Emil and the Detectives based on the script by Billy Wilder . He was also interested in the living conditions of the poorest of the population and in the mid-1920s he created an outstanding social trilogy, some of which also received international attention ( Die Verrufenen 1925, published in the USA as The slums of Berlin , Die Unehelichen 1926 und Menschen und Menschen 1926 ).

German silent films register

Among his films made after 1933, Madame Bovary (1937) is the most notable after Gustave Flaubert with Pola Negri and Ferdinand Marian . His rubble film Irgendwo in Berlin (1946) was one of DEFA's first publications after the end of the Second World War .

Lamprecht now increasingly shifted his interest to film history. The basis for this was an extensive collection that he had built up since his school days - he worked as a student as a projectionist in the cinema and collected everything that had to do with film. The collection was taken over by the Berlin Senate in 1962 and formed the basis of the Deutsche Kinemathek , which Lamprecht headed until 1966. In 1967 he was awarded the Filmband in Gold for many years of outstanding work in German film. By 1970, in collaboration with the Kinemathek, he published an eight-volume encyclopedia and a complete register of German silent films from 1903 to 1931.

His grave is in the forest cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf .

In 2013, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Kinemathek, a number of his films were restored and published on DVD. In addition, three volumes were published on various aspects of Lamprecht's life as a director and collector.

Honors

Filmography

literature

  • Harro Kieser:  Lamprecht, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 467 ( digitized version ).
  • Rolf Aurich: mosaic work. Gerhard Lamprecht and the world of film archives. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-226-3 (A representation of the film collection of the Deutsche Kinemathek and its creation from the Lamprechts collection).
  • Wolfgang Jacobsen : Time and World. Gerhard Lamprecht and his films. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-227-0 (A presentation of Lamprecht's films and their transmission, including in the Deutsche Kinemathek).
  • Eva Orbanz: With each other and opposite. Gerhard Lamprecht and his eyewitness conversations. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-228-7 (selection of the transcribed versions of some eyewitness conversations on German film history that Gerhard Lamprecht conducted and that have been preserved in the Deutsche Kinemathek).

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personal data
SURNAME Lamprecht, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilar (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1974
Place of death Berlin