Hans Jacoby (film architect)
Hans Jacoby , in exile in Argentina Juan Jacoby Renard (born December 5, 1898 in Berlin , Germany , † December 19, 1967 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German film architect and film studio manager.
Life
Jacoby began his professional training at the end of the First World War and in 1920 joined Fritz Lang's Die Vier um die Frau in film. In his early years he took care of the execution of drafts by colleagues Ernst Meiwers, Franz Seemann and Erich Czerwonski . From 1922 Jacoby was allowed to build film structures on his own responsibility.
In his almost one and a half decades of activity for German film, Hans Jacoby designed the sets for mostly minor productions by some well-known directors, including Benjamin Christensen , AW Sandberg , Lothar Mendes , Jaap Speyer , Fritz Wendhausen , Karl Grune , Adolf Sportwetten , Max Reichmann , Erich Waschneck and Wilhelm Thiele . In 1935 Jacoby followed a call to Vienna , where he was in charge of setting the scenes for Werner Hochbaum's psychodrama, The Eternal Mask , which was awarded at the Venice Biennale . This last German-language film commission “was at the same time Jacoby's most artistically important and quantitatively most comprehensive work - he created a. a. a 30-meter-wide watercourse, a complete hospital block and a cleverly lit, eerie maze of corridors - with which he tied in with the aesthetic language of expressionist cinema (which was now ostracized in Hitler's Germany) . "
Despite the overwhelming press coverage of The Eternal Mask , the Jew Jacoby could no longer work in Germany and was expelled from the Reichsfilmkammer in 1938 . At this point he had long been in Argentina . Since 1936 Jacoby worked in the film there and was now called Juan Jacoby Renard. At the end of 1938 he was also given the opportunity to direct a film. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Jacoby was appointed general manager of the Argentina Sono Film SACI production company in Buenos Aires . After 1949 his track is lost. Jacoby stayed in the Argentine capital, where he died in 1967.
Filmography
as a film architect, unless otherwise stated
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literature
- Kay Less : In life, more is taken from you than given… . Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 258 f., ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
- 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 183.
Web links
- Juan Jacoby Renard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hans Jacoby in the Internet Movie Database (English) - incorrectly merged with the eponymous screenwriter Hans Jacoby (screenwriter) and his filmography mixed with that of the author
- Hans Jacoby at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 183.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacoby, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Renard, Juan Jacoby |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect and film studio manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1967 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires , Argentina |