Heinrich Mutzenbecher

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Heinrich Mutzenbecher (born March 21, 1888 in Hamburg , † November 30, 1985 in Witzhave , Stormarn) was a German film producer and media official.

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Mutzenbecher was a son of the lawyer Matthias Mutzenbecher and his wife Magdalena, née Ohlendorff. After attending a secondary school in Hamburg and the cadet house in Plön, Mutzenbecher attended the main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde, where he passed his Abitur at Easter 1908. From 1908 to 1909 he was a one-year volunteer in the Prussian army. From 1908 Mutzenbecher studied law, then German , philosophy and art history, first in Munich, then in Berlin and Bonn. In 1914 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on the subject of "Heine and the Drama". From 1914 to 1918 Mutzenbecher took part in the First World War as a first lieutenant in the reserve .

From 1919 Mutzenbecher worked in various companies before he joined the Hamburg-America Line (Hapag) in 1926, where he became head of the film department. From 1928 to 1929 he was the production manager and head of the expedition at the foreign locations of the film Melodie der Welt . This first full-length German sound film (director: Walter Ruttmann ) was produced in cooperation with the Tobis sound image syndicate and was created on a world tour of the Hapag steamer " Resolute ". From 1931 to 1932 Mutzenbecher moved to the Tobis film production company . From autumn 1932 he was a consultant for film issues in the press department (department P) of the Foreign Office . After the establishment of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and the transfer of the press department of the Foreign Office, he resigned in October 1933.

Fonts

  • Heine and the Drama , Lucas Gräfe, Hamburg 1914 (dissertation)
  • Melody of the World: A prelude to the first German sound film , Hamburg 1928.
  • Cécile Mutzenbecher and Hans von Bülow , Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1963.
  • Family tree of the Mutzenbecher family 1636-1971 , Witzhave 1973.

literature

  • Jörg Schöning (Ed.): Moving See: Maritimes Kino 1912–1957 , Edition Text + Criticism, 2007 ISBN 978-3-88377-895-2 , p. 110
  • Hans Michael Bock, Wiebke Annkatrin Mosel, Ingrun Walks (eds.): Die Tobis 1928-1945. An annotated filmography. Edition Text + Criticism, 2003 ISBN 978-3-88377-748-1 , p. 25
  • Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger (eds.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Vol. 5 (TZ and supplements), Berlin 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Hempel, Friederike Weimar: Time for Heaven: the culture of the 1920s in Hamburg , Wachholtz, 2010 ISBN 978-3-529-02849-6 , p. 141
personal data
SURNAME Mutzenbecher, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and media official
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1985
Place of death Witzhave , Stormarn