Hans Karl Gottschalk

Hans Karl Gottschalk (born November 22, 1891 in Cologne ; † May 27, 1941 in the North Atlantic ) was a German cameraman .

Life

Gottschalk attended the secondary school and the higher mechanical engineering school. From 1915 he was a still photographer for film, soon afterwards a subordinate cameraman. After the end of the First World War he participated as chief cameraman in a large number of silent films, including in 1929 Karl Valentin's Der Sonderling .

Gottschalk received relatively few commissions in the sound film business. In 1933 he was one of three cameramen who captured the winter adventure The White Rush . Most recently he was one of the cameramen Leni Riefenstahl commanded in her Nazi party rally documentary Triumph des Willens and her two-part Olympic film.

When the Second World War broke out, Gottschalk signed up for military service in the Navy. He became Marine Artillery Officer of the Reserve on the battleship Bismarck , with which he went down.

Filmography

1918: Mouchy 1918: The poison of the Medici 1918: the vision 1918: Edelwild 1918: love sacrifice 1918: The madness is short 1918: Lost Daughters 1919: The heir to the Lilienhof 1919: The Squid Club 1919: The enemy reporters 1920: three nights 1919: The Gate of Freedom 1919: Whipped 1919: Homo Sum 1919: Deported 1920: The Raft of the Dead 1920: Fata Morgana 1920: ships and people 1920: The creepy Chinese 1921: His brother's serf 1921: The night of a thousand souls 1921: The shadow of Gaby Leed 1922: Nathan the Wise 1923: Cavaliers 1923: The gray power 1924: slaves of love 1924: The woman in the fire 1925: women who are not allowed to love 1925: The adventurous wedding 1925: The love of the Bajadere 1926: The Princess of the Riviera 1926: The German mother's heart 1926: Miss Mama

1927: The queen of the variety show 1927: Beautiful women's toys 1927: The prisoner of Shanghai 1927: Heavy boys - easy girls 1927: hotel rats 1927: The man without a head 1928: honeymoon 1928: Ossi is wearing his pants 1928: Circumstantial evidence 1928: The Piccolo of the Golden Lion 1928: Polish economy 1928: What's wrong with Nanette? 1929: Diary of a cocotte 1929: The eccentric 1930: rag ball 1931: Grock 1931: The white intoxication 1931: The horror of the garrison 1931: Service is service 1931: Father goes on a journey 1931: No celebration without Meyer 1932: From a small residence 1932: broken pieces bring luck (short film) 1932: Church and Homeland (documentary) 1934: Wilhelm Tell 1935: Visit to Uncle Emil (short film) 1935: The dream of the big lot 1935: triumph of will 1935: The jungle calls 1936: Clear ship to battle. A film from the German fleet (documentary) 1936: Olympia (2 parts) 1939: Chemotherapy of bacterial infections (short documentary film)

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 335.

Web links

• Hans Karl Gottschalk in the Internet Movie Database (English)