Heinrich Lisson

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Heinrich Lisson born when Henry Nischwitz (* 18th August 1867 in Guebwiller , Alsace , France ; † 6. January 1933 in Berlin ) was a German actor , manager , film producer and film director .

Life

The son of a tapestryman had attended secondary school in his hometown of Gebweiler and then worked as a concert singer. From 1892 he appeared in international (especially French) variety shows and cabarets , and guest appearances took him to Poland and Russia . With a singing partner he founded the duo Les Lissons , a pseudonym that he would later use in his film work.

Based in Berlin since 1911 or 1912, he met the cinema pioneer Charles Decroix , who was an Alsatian, who brought Lisson to film. For Decroix, Lisson initially worked as a unit manager. When he fled headlong from Germany to Switzerland at the outbreak of the First World War, Lisson founded his own production company Nischwitz-Lisson-Film and also worked for this company as a director and producer. For a number of the films he has produced, however, his work as a director is not guaranteed.

In these early years he worked several times with the then stars Fern Andra , Dorrit Weixler and Ludwig Colani . As early as 1916, Lisson had to largely give up his independence and now worked sometimes as an assistant director ( Nirwana , 1916) and actor, sometimes again as a unit manager (for productions by Victor Janson ) and again as a director in the mid-20s. His best-known production was to be the implementation of the musical comedy Barfüßele with Maria Zelenka in 1924 .

After 1927 he hardly received any offers from the film; the sound film only had two tiny roles ready for Lisson in 1931/32. Heinrich Lisson, who lived in Berlin-Steglitz until the end , died at the beginning of 1933 in the Berlin-Schöneberg hospital .

His son Theo Nischwitz came from his marriage to Frieda Glohr on April 10, 1912 , who was to make a name for himself as a special effects specialist and cameraman since the early 1930s .

Filmography

  • 1913: Der Fleck (location manager)
  • 1913: Friends (production manager)
  • 1913: The Czerwonska (production manager)
  • 1913: Above all, honor (recording manager)
  • 1914: On patrol in the east (production, direction unsecured)
  • 1914: Reported missing (production, direction unsecured)
  • 1915: Surf (directed with Ludwig Colani)
  • 1915: Parisian fashion - of today (production, direction unsecured)
  • 1915: The Angel of Peace (production, direction unsecured)
  • 1916: chains of faith (as an actor)
  • 1917: Life's Unmixed Joy (actor)
  • 1918: Saferndri, the dancer of Jiapur (actor)
  • 1922: The girl with the mask (production manager)
  • 1922: The stowaway (reception manager)
  • 1923: The billionaire souper (production manager)
  • 1924: Barfüßele (as actor and director)
  • 1925: Das Herz am Rhein (director and screenplay)
  • 1925: The junk dealer of Amsterdam (production manager)
  • 1925: In the jug of the green wreath (actor, director and screenplay)
  • 1925: The one down there (production manager)
  • 1926: Die von der Waterkant (director)
  • 1926: The Journey into Happiness (Director)
  • 1926: The Queen of the World Bath (production manager)
  • 1927: The wrong ways of love (director)
  • 1927: Luther - A Film of the German Reformation (actor)
  • 1929: Blackmailer (production manager)
  • 1932: Hello hello! This is Berlin speaking! (Actor)
  • 1932: The eleven Schill officers (actors)

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SURNAME Lisson, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nischwitz, Heinrich (birth name); Nischwitz-Lisson, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, unit manager and film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Gebweiler , Alsace , France
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1933
Place of death Berlin