Heinz Fennel

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Chaim Heinz Fennel ( Hebrew היינץ פנחל, born September 11, 1906 in Berlin ; died 1988 in Israel ) was a German-Israeli architect who worked as a film and production designer in Germany before fleeing .

Life

Aron Heinz Fenchel was the son of Gertrud Hirsch and Carl Fenchel, who worked as a businessman and business partner with his father-in-law in a Berlin hemp rope wholesale business. His brother, who was one year older, was the mathematician Werner Fenchel .

After attending the Menzel Realschule and the Leibnitz Oberrealschule, Fennel studied architecture at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He completed the architecture studio with Hans Poelzig and the theater and stage decoration class with César Klein .

Fennel received his first commission in 1928 from the set designer Ernst Stern at the Great Theater in Berlin. In the same year he worked as a production designer at UFA in Neubabelsberg . For the film architect Jacques Rotmil, he worked on the UFA productions Adieu, Mascotte (1929, director: Wilhelm Thiele ), The convict from Stambul (1929, director: Gustav Ucicky ), When you give away your heart (1929, director: Johannes Guter ) and Dolly's career (1930, directed by Anatole Litvak ). At the production company Karel Lamač / Anny Ondra he was together with Rotmil on the film set for Die vom Rummelplatz (1930) and A friend as cute as you (1930), as well as being responsible for a total of eleven films as a set designer.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933 and the establishment of the Reichsfilmkammer in July 1933, Fennel's career as a film architect in Germany came to an end. With Paul Fejos he made five more films a. a. in Denmark, where his brother had also fled. His last film in Europe was the Dutch production Komedie om Geld (1936), directed by Max Ophüls . Fennel decided to emigrate to Palestine , although there was no film industry there.

Hotel Ivoire, Cote d'Ivoire

From then on, Fennel worked in Palestine / Israel as an architect and interior designer and was able to design modern coffee houses, elegant home furnishings and luxury hotels, including a luxury hotel in Abidjan and in 1953 the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv , which the Dan Hotel Group later renovated several times.

Documents relating to his film work in the 1930s have also been preserved in his daughter Liorah Federmann's estate in Tel Aviv.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Crazy! : Stage worlds - life worlds; Chaim Heinz Fennel 1906 - 1988 . Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name by the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum from October 2, 2015 to April 10, 2016 / [Ed. Chana Schütz. Translator Angelika Welt-Mooney; Belina Cooper]
  • Carmela Rubin, Arie Berkowitz, Ines Sonder: Chaim Heinz Fenchel. A complex puzzle . 2012
  • Rubin Museum Tel-Aviv: Chaim Heinz Fennel - An Architect's Paintbrush . Exhibition catalog 2012
  • Joachim Schlör : Heinz Fennel. A Berlin film architect in Tel Aviv , In: Filmexil, No. 11 [Palestine] 1998, pp. 71–75

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ines special: The King of Glass, Mirror, and Metal on Good Sets. The film architect and interior designer Heinz Fenchel (1906–1988) ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 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. , in: DAVID , issue 6/2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.davidkultur.at
personal data
SURNAME Fennel, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fennel, Chaim Heinz (full name); היינץ פנחל (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli production designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Israel