Harald Röbbeling

Harald Röbbeling (born October 11, 1905 in Mannheim ; † 1989 ) was a German screenwriter and film director .

Live and act

The son of the stage actor, theater manager and former Burgtheater director Hermann Röbbeling , joined the avant-garde theater scene in the late 1920s and received from his father, from whom he learned the directing trade and who headed the United Drama Theaters in Hamburg in the early 1930s, the Opportunity to work briefly as a senior stage director (director) at the Thalia Theater. Röbbeling junior temporarily lost interest in the theater and turned to film for financial reasons in the Third Reich. Since 1935 he can be proven as a screenwriter at irregular intervals (mostly in collaboration with colleagues).

Harald Röbbeling experienced his most important creative phase in the early post-war period, when he directed some quite unusual and controversial films in Vienna that were controversial and not part of the entertainment mainstream. Even before the conventional revue film Fregola with Marika Rökk in her first post-war film role (1948), Harald Röbbeling tried to break new ground, particularly with potassium cyanide . The film, shot in 1947, painted a grim picture of the early post-war period in Austria, in which an unscrupulous researcher first robbed a drug dealer in order to use his money to develop a healing serum, and then committed a murder before he judged himself with the eponymous potassium cyanide. This film, which was largely rejected by the critics, was influenced by film noir Hollywood of the war and early post-war years as well as by Italian neorealism .

Röbbeling's second work from 1948, Derbe Bauernschwank The Rejuvenation , was downright panned by domestic critics and later even banned from performance in some areas of Austria. The "Österreichische Film und Kino Zeitung" spoke in its edition of August 14, 1948 on page 6 of a threat to the reputation of Austrian film production, since the film had "indisputable inadequacies" in terms of image, sound and technical level, and the script was primitive and the entire work is in places vulgar and unsavory. At a performance in Innsbruck in May 1948, Catholic youths protested loudly among the audience, as the strip would offend the peasantry.

In addition, the films Asphalt , announced as an “avant-garde experiment with social commitment”, and the time and faith drama Der, which was shot in Hamburg in the summer of 1951 with the most economical means and mostly unemployed actors and produced at Röbbeling's own expense and produced in-house , deserve particular Way to you attention - two films "both of which were based on neo-realistic models". These ambitious productions were granted neither artistic nor commercial success. Based on police reports and welfare files, “Asphalt” tells in five reports about young people who went to waste in Vienna in the early post-war period. In addition to the educational aspect, these stories also had a reminder to take more care of the neglected post-war youth. Despite its ambition, “asphalt” was also badly discussed. The trade union magazine “Der Jugendliche Arbeiter”, for example, called the strip “shamefully failed with the exception of photography”, the Viennese Filmrevue saw “ Asphalt ” as a “ rubbish film” and “unscrupulous speculation” and stated as a conclusion: “It is too immoral for Austria . "

In 1952 Röbbeling briefly returned to the theater with the time-critical play The Golden Years . After his subsequent film production, Nur not aufregen, went largely unnoticed and in December 1953, after only six days of directing his Viennese citizen theater, which was renamed the “Broadway stage”, he had spectacularly failed, Röbbeling briefly went to the GDR. Here, between February and August 1955, he was allowed to shoot a total of 17 eight-minute short films of the Stacheltier production for DEFA . It was there that Röbbeling met the DEFA production manager Charlotte Herwig, whom he was to marry a little later. Both of them went back to the West shortly afterwards, where his wife, Charlotte Röbbeling, set up her own tiny production company called Colibri-Film, based in Munich, which focused exclusively on the production of her husband's last films (1957 to 1959). After one last full-length feature film, the Edelschnulze A Heart Needs Love , which received hardly any attention and, according to some criticism, once again revealed Röbbeling's lack of directing talent, Harald Röbbeling, now based in Hamburg, ended his cinema career. Little is known about the remaining three decades of his life.

Filmography

as a director and / or screenwriter

• 1935: Artist's love
• 1935: Martha
• 1936: Pediatrician Dr. Angel
• 1937: The Lucky Finder (short film)
• 1938: Wedding night (short film)
• 1939: The Stiletto (short film)
• 1943: a beautiful day
• 1948: Anni
• 1948: The makeover
• 1948: Potassium cyanide
• 1948: Fregola
• 1951: asphalt
• 1951: The way to you (also production)
• 1953: Just don't get upset
• 1954: The Robbers (short film)
• 1955: The quill: It's about the sausage (short film)
• 1955: The barbed animal: raise your cups (short film)
• 1955: Cheers meal (quill short film)
• 1955: The bus shelter (barbed animal short film)
• 1955: Poor Jonathan (quill short film)
• 1955: Falling into the water (quill short film)
• 1955: Immertreu (barbed animal short film)
• 1955: Fright in the morning hour (barbed animal short film)
• 1955: The good old days (Stacheltier short film, also director)
• 1957: Barbel's birthday (short documentary film)
• 1958: Die neue Heimat (short documentary film)
• 1958: Alt-Heidelberg, you Feine ... (short documentary)
• 1958: Animal children in the zoo (short documentary film)
• 1958: Just a Dog (short documentary)
• 1958: Witnesses of the Past (short documentary)
• 1960: a heart needs love

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Paimann criticism ( memento of the original from January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ "The makeover" on books.google.de
3. ↑ "Asphalt" on derStandard.at
4. ↑ Röbbeling in Der Spiegel 34/1951
5. ↑ Röbbeling on filmblatt.de
6. ^ The young worker, August 1951 edition, p. 41
7. ↑ Wiener Filmrevue, 8/1951, p 16
8. ↑ Why Nero failed , report in Die Zeit , 34/1952
9. ^ Röbbeling in Arsenal

literature

• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1418.

Web links

• Harald Röbbeling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Harald Röbbeling at filmportal.de