Alfred Halm
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Alfred Halm , pseudonym H. Fredall (born December 9, 1861 in Vienna , † February 5, 1951 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor , theater director , theater director , screenwriter and film director .
Life
He began his career as an actor on stages in Hanau , Gießen , Barmen and Elberfeld and at the Flora Theater in Zurich . At the beginning of the 1890s he came to Berlin and was employed in the field of youthful hero and lover.
At the Lobe Theater in Wroclaw , he not only gained his first directing experience, but also rose to become co-director of the summer theater. In 1906 he took over the management of the theater on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin . He ran this theater until it went bankrupt in 1912. His productions often focused on his friend, the actor Josef Kainz .
In 1913 he switched to film, where he directed various subjects and mostly also contributed the script. Among other things, he was responsible for the film adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Rose Bernd with Henny Porten and Emil Jannings in 1919 . After 1926 Halm restricted himself to writing screenplays, later he wrote plays and worked as a translator. For racist reasons he did not receive any more commissions at all after power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933.
He was the father of actor Harry Halm and writer Evelyn Clevé .
Filmography (as a director and screenwriter)
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Web links
- Alfred Halm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1917-1918 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 247 .
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| SURNAME | Halm, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fredall, H. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor, theater director, theater director, screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1951 |
| Place of death | Berlin |