Heinz compatriot

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Heinz Landmann (* 1. March 1886 in Hamburg , † in the 20th century) was a German manager , production manager, assistant director and actor , who primarily for his role in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Meyer from Berlin was announced.

Life

Compatriot had worked as a production manager for the film since 1910. After the end of the First World War he worked in Berlin in various functions for the film industry. In 1926 he worked as assistant director for Olof Molander in the German-Swedish production Nur eine Dancerin with Lil Dagover in the lead role. In 1929, Landsmann worked for the mountaineering drama The White Hell from Piz Palü by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Arnold Fanck as production manager and first production manager for William Dieterle's drama Fate of an Unfortunate Person about King Ludwig II of Bavaria Motif manager. As a production manager, he was also involved in film productions such as Frederic Zelnik's Mühle von Sanssouci with Otto Fee as Friedrich the Great , Pabst's Diary of a Lost with Louise Brooks in the lead role, the Heinz Rühmann comedy 5 million looking for an heir and Johannes Riemann's drama Ave Maria with Beniamino Gigli . As a producer he supervised a. a. 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabsts The Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind with Louise Brooks in the role of "Lulu" and ten years later Josef von Báky's A varietè csillagai .

In 1919, compatriot played a bigger role in front of the camera: In Ernst Lubitsch's comedic three-act play Meyer from Berlin about the confusion between two lovers, he acted alongside Lubitsch, Ethel Orff and Trude Troll.

In October 1933, Landsmann applied for admission to the Film Student Council, which was initially granted to him. On April 11, 1934, he received his regular membership card. However, this was later withdrawn from him by the National Socialists because of his Jewish wife. Nevertheless, Landsmann remained active in the film business until the 1940s with a special pass from Hans Hinkel . His last production was in 1943, Paul Verhoevens Philharmonic with Eugen Klöpfer and Will Quadflieg , which premiered in 1949.

Filmography (selection)

Production (selection)

Recording and production manager (selection)

  • 1924: By order of the Pompadour
  • 1925: Letters that did not reach him
  • 1926: The bank crash under the linden trees
  • 1926: The Sanssouci mill
  • 1926: The Forester Christian
  • 1926: On the beautiful blue Danube
  • 1929: Diary of a lost man
  • 1929: The white hell of Piz Palü
  • 1930: The great longing
  • 1930: fate of an unhappy person
  • 1932: A very rich man
  • 1932: Five from the jazz band
  • 1933: love affair
  • 1934: mother and child
  • 1934: The cousin from Dingsda
  • 1934: Something is wrong
  • 1936: Ave Maria
  • 1938: 5 million are looking for an heir
  • 1939: People from the Varieté
  • 1940: A Robinson
  • 1941: Jakko
  • 1942: The great shadow
  • 1944: Philharmonic

Assistant director

  • 1926: Bara en danserska (only one dancer)

actor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bärbel Schrader: "Revocable at any time". The Reich Chamber of Culture and the special permits in theater and film of the Nazi state. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-70-3 , p. 327.
  2. ↑ Bärbel Schrader: "Revocable at any time". The Reich Chamber of Culture and the special permits in theater and film of the Nazi state. Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-70-3 , p. 338.
personal data
SURNAME Compatriot, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German unit manager, production manager, assistant director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century