Gustav Althoff

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Althoff (born January 2, 1885 in Minden ; † November 24, 1948 in Baden-Baden ) was a German film producer .

Life

Althoff opened his own cinema in Dortmund in 1910 , the "Orpheum". Shortly afterwards he was also active in film distribution . After the end of World War I , he moved with his Berlin company Althoff & Co. to the film production and was co-founder in 1921 of the Althoff-anvil film (AAFA).

In addition, he worked from 1928 as a production manager for the film company Albö and from 1929 for the Berlin Aco-Film GmbH . In 1930 he took over the management of the Aco. Althoff mainly produced typical entertainment films of all kinds, especially romances and comedies. Usually only relatively little known actors were available to him.

During the time of National Socialism he was able to continue working unscathed, but did not have the opportunity to use the studios of the state-controlled film companies UFA , Tobis and Terra . In the spring of 1939, for example, he converted the “Klemms Festsäle” bar on the northern edge of Babelsberg into a film studio, the Althoff studio . From September onwards, filming took place in this studio, and a second, larger hall was created based on a design by the architect Benno-Franz Moebus.

Althoff's Aco-Film was dissolved in 1942 like all other remaining private film companies. He then built a new film studio in Babelsberg in 1942/1943, which after UFA and Terra offered the largest hall capacity for filming. His wife Anna (1886–1967) continued to run the company after his death.

Filmography

• 1920: Lepain, the king of criminals
• 1921: Poor little Eva
• 1921: arch crook
• 1921: The hero of the day
• 1925: The old ballroom (2 parts)
• 1925: Wallenstein
• 1925: Ash Wednesday
• 1926: Autumn maneuvers
• 1927: The Lorelei
• 1928: I once had a beautiful fatherland
• 1928: The Hannerl von Rolandsbogen
• 1928: Autumn on the Rhine
• 1928: The young lady from Argentina
• 1928: Today I was at Frieda's
• 1928: Kaczmarek
• 1929: The Gypsy Primate
• 1929: Lux, the king of criminals / Lux, the king of bandits
• 1929: The gentleman from the tax office
• 1929: special registration
• 1929: Beware of easy women
• 1929: The adolescents
• 1929: sins of youth
• 1929: girl on the cross
• 1929: Secret police
• 1929: The moral judge / § 218. A true incident
• 1930: The man in the dark
• 1930: You give yourself roses when you are in love
• 1930: harried girls
• 1930: If you still have a home
• 1930: twice lux
• 1930: The green lantern
• 1930: Parisian underworld
• 1931: Service is service
• 1931: Poor little Eva
• 1931: No celebration without Meyer
• 1932: Annemarie, the bride of the company
• 1932: The bladder in love
• 1933: K 1 intervenes
• 1933: Country innocence
• 1933: Karl renovates his apartment
• 1933: When men cook
• 1933: Home on the Rhine
• 1933: The cold Mamsell (also film music)
• 1933: Gretel draws the big lot (also film music)
• 1934: The horror of the Heidekrug
• 1934: My wife, the shooter queen
• 1934: When mother is not at home
• 1935: When a girl gets married
• 1936: The misunderstood bon vivant
• 1936: angels with small flaws
• 1936: Hummel - Hummel
• 1936: Over there in the heather
• 1938: Peter plays with fire / The swapped husband
• 1941: alarm
• 1941: Clarissa
• 1942: Through the eyes of a woman
• 1943: Everything for love

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 1 (A-C) Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 82 f.

Web links

• Gustav Althoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Gustav Althoff in the bibliographic database WorldCat