Heinrich Brandt (director)

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Heinrich Brandt (born August 19, 1891 in Düsseldorf , Germany , † after 1933) was a German silent film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Brandt had studied art and literature and graduated with a doctorate . At that time he served as an assistant at the literary institute at Kiel University . Brandt then worked in the journalistic field (as a theater and art critic). According to his own information, he claims to have worked as a stage director in his native Düsseldorf and Dresden , and for a time he claims to have been director of the Bucharest Court Theater and the German Theater in Helsinki .

At the end of the war in 1918, Heinrich Brandt joined the film industry and began to work there as a screenwriter. For two years at the same time he was head of the feature film production of the German-national production company Deutsche Lichtbild-Gesellschaft . In 1921 Heinrich Brandt made his directorial debut at Vera-Filmwerke GmbH in Hamburg for the film Die Schwarze Rose von Cruska , for the shooting of the drama The Avenger of Davos , he traveled with his crew to Switzerland at the beginning of 1924 , further professional trips took him to Venice , Rome and Paris . As early as 1926 he left the practical film work again and apparently turned to film theory. As Hervé Dumont reported in his work History of Swiss Film , Brandt is said to have been "one of the most authoritative Nazi film theorists" from 1933 onwards.

Heinrich Brandt was married to the actress Gertrud Arnold .

Filmography

  • 1919: Miss Sarah Simpson (screenplay)
  • 1921: The Black Rose by Cruska (co-director)
  • 1922: The struggle for self (direction and screenplay)
  • 1923: The ghost seer
  • 1924: The Avenger of Davos (director, co-screenplay)
  • 1925: The Found Bride (screenplay)
  • 1926: Strong in Loyalty (Director)
  • 1926: Battle of the Sexes (director)

Individual proof

  1. ↑ The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 88.

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 26

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personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silent film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH after 1933