Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
Heinrich HE Bolten-Baeckers (also Heinz Bolten-Baeckers ; born April 10, 1871 in Chemnitz , † January 30, 1938 in Dresden ) was a German playwright, lyricist, publisher, film director, producer and screenwriter. His songs are still known today. He was also one of the most important creators of comedies in early German film .
Life
Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers was a librettist for Berlin operettas by Paul Lincke such as Frau Luna and Im Reiche des Indra . Among other things, he wrote the texts of the operetta song Das ist die Berliner Luft, Luft, Luft and the Schlager Give me a little love , Oh Theophil and castles that lie in the moon ...
In 1906 Bolten-Baeckers shot one of the three films about the captain von Köpenick , which were created as re- enactment films .
In 1909 he founded the film production company BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers (Berlin), which produced countless shallow entertainment films until 1923. In 1912/13, among others, the later well-known director Carl Wilhelm worked for Bolten-Baeckers. A series of Leo comedies starring the actor Leo Peukert was created by the mid-1910s . Bolten-Baeckers was the director of the popular hit Das Liebesglück der Blinden (1911) for the Messter film company . The melodrama with Henny Porten and Friedrich Zelnik in the leading roles made the Porten known to a wide audience.
From 1912 to 1921 Bolten-Baeckers was director of the Berlin comedy theater on Friedrichstrasse. Until the mid-1920s, Bolten-Baeckers continued to work as a director and producer in the film business. In 1927 he founded the Lignose Hörfilm System Breusig GmbH , which was supposed to utilize Kurt Breusig's needle tone process . After a collaboration with Ufa failed, the first lignosis audio film was shown in Dresden in 1928.
The GEMA Foundation awards since 1988 the 10,000 euros Heinz-Bolten Baeckers Prize to librettist for outstanding achievements in the field of popular music theater.
Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers died in Dresden in 1938 at the age of 66 and was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin. The tomb has not been preserved.
Filmography (selection)
- 1906: The captain of Köpenick
- 1909: The little detective
- 1909: The lucky horseshoe
- 1909: The big lot
- 1909: Don Juan marries (assignment uncertain)
- 1909: Klebolin sticks everything
- 1909: Sailors dance
- 1911: The bliss of the blind in love
- 1911: The grateful Cupid
- 1911: The blind
- 1911: A wet nurse is wanted
- 1911: Leo Sapperloter
- 1911: Leo and his three brides
- 1912: The 11th commandment
- 1913: My Leopold
- 1914: Michel's iron fist
- 1914: Married at war
- 1915: Magic scenery
- 1915: Nocturno
- 1915: turning point
- 1915: The tyrant of Muckendorf
- 1916: From the book of life
- 1917: The cricket
- 1924: My Leopold
- 1925: The second mother
- 1925: The gentleman without an apartment
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. 459.
Web links
- Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers at filmportal.de
- Article on the 60th anniversary of death in the Chemnitz city magazine Stadtstreicher (with photo) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- The BB film studios at CineGraph
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of BB film productions ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ gema.de ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2009 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.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 578.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bolten-Baeckers, Heinrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolten-Baeckers, Heinrich HE; Bolten-Baeckers, Heinz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright, lyricist, publisher, film director, producer and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1938 |
Place of death | Dresden |