Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers

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Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers (around 1900)
Memorial plaque , Berlinickestrasse 11, in Berlin-Steglitz

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)

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

Commons : Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmportal.de  
  2. ↑ 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gema.de
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 578.
personal data
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