Heinz Schulz-Neudamm

Heinz Schulz-Neudamm (born July 7, 1899 in Neudamm , Königsberg district, Neumark ; † May 13, 1969 in Wiesbaden ; actually Paul Heinz Otto Schulz ) was a German graphic artist and illustrator .

Active in Berlin until the 1940s, Schulz, who named himself Schulz-Neudamm after his place of birth, designed numerous advertising designs for various film companies - such as Diary a Lost (1929) or Hereditary Tricks (1929). However, he mainly worked for German agencies for American distribution companies, including Deutsche Fox (later 20th Century Fox ), Deutsche Universal Film AG , Parufamet and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . He mainly designed German premiere posters for American films, for example Anna Karenina (1935, with Greta Garbo ) and Mutiny on the Bounty / Mutiny On The Bounty (1935, with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable ).

Schulz-Neudamm was responsible for the design of the ParUfaMet press booklet and the Paramount journal. He also designed illustrations, including portrait sketches for the magazine Filmillustrierte . Schulz-Neudamm lived in Wiesbaden from the beginning of the 1950s, where he continued to work for the film industry, including the United Artists .

The original drawing of the poster for the classic film Metropolis was sold in London in November 2005 for the record price of 398,000 pounds sterling.

Major movie posters

• Adventure in the South Seas (USA 1942), 20th Century Fox 1948, 86 × 61 cm
• Alexander the Great (USA 1956), United Artists 1956, 84.1 × 118 cm
• Anna Karenina (USA 1935), 1935, 142 × 95 cm
• Arabian Nights (USA 1942, with Maria Montez and Sabu), Universal Pictures 1949, 86 × 61 cm
• Doctor and Demon (USA 1940), 1949, 86 × 61 cm
• To life and death (1949), 85 × 61 cm
• The last command (1927) 136 × 92 cm (ParaUfaMet, Emil Jannings Oscar roll)
• Long live love (D 1944), 1950, 86 × 61 cm
• Eternal Rembrandt (D 1942, with Herta Feiler), 1950, 84 × 60 cm
• The flying fleet (USA 1929), 1930, 137 × 94.5 cm
• Women for Golden Hill (D 1938), 1950, 85 × 60.5 cm
• The Secret of Malampur / The Letter (USA 1949), Warner Bros. 1949, 82 × 59 cm, print: Lindemann & Lüdecke, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 62, item 281.
• Gulliver's Travels (USA 1939), Paramount 1949, 85 × 61 cm
• Lord of the Wild West (USA 1939), Warner Bros. 1949, 85 × 61 cm
• Hotel Stadt Lemberg (USA 1926), 1926, 140.5 × 94 cm
• I was FBI Mann MC (USA 1950, with Frank Lovejoy), Warner Bros. 1964, 84 × 60 cm
• In the sign of Zorro (USA 1949, with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell), 20th Century Fox 1949, 84 × 59 cm, print: Druckhaus Tempelhof, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 63, item 287.
• Around the World in 80 Days (USA 1957), United Artists 1957, 85 × 61 cm
• Every woman has something (D 1931), 1931, 136 × 92 cm
• Jimmy and the Pirates (USA 1959), United Artists 1959, 84 × 60 cm
• The Youngest Lieutenant (USA 1929), 1929, 109 × 91.5 cm
• Marquis d'Eon, the Pompadour's spy (D 1928), 1928, 138 × 89.5 cm
• My friend Josefine (D 1942), 1950, 86.5 × 61 cm
• Metropolis (D 1926), UFA 1926, 211 × 96 cm
  Poster image contained in: The UFA poster - page 69. Export poster without rental information and credits.
  A poster with this motif is said to have
  been sold to an American collector by the Reel Poster Gallery, London, for the record price of 398,000 pounds sterling (approx. 580,000 euros or 690,000 US dollars) .
  (Source: Reel Poster Gallery website, London, and various press releases)
• Meuterei auf der Bounty / Mutiny On The Bounty (USA 1935) MGM 1935, 141 × 95 cm
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 58, item 265 and a color illustration Color plate IV.
• With Büchse und Lasso (USA 1949, with John Wayne and Ella Raines), RKO Radio 1949, 86 × 61 cm
• Mordache Cenci (I 1941), 1942, 59.5 × 42 cm
• Nordlicht (D 1938), 1938, 34 × 47 cm
• Opium (USA 1948, with Dick Powell), Columbia 1948, 85 × 61 cm
• Rango (USA 1931), 1931, 138 × 95 cm, print: A. Scherl, Berlin.
  A color illustration is contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 23, on October 10, 1992, page 27, item 85.
• Die Rauhen Reiter (USA 1948), Gloria 1948, 84 × 60 cm
• Rigoletto (I 1942), 1942, 83.5 × 60.5 cm
• Robin Hood - King of the Vagabonds (USA 1938, with Errol Flynn ), Warner Bros. 1949, 86 × 61 cm
• Robinson Crusoe (1954, director: Luis Bunuel ), 1954, 84.5 × 60.5 cm
• San Franzisko (USA 1936), MGM 1936, 142 × 95 cm, poster art print Eckert, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 59, item 266 and a color illustration on color plate IV.
• Savoy-Hotel 217 (also: Mord im Savoy, with Hans Albers ) (D 1936), 1950, 83 × 59.5 cm
• Der Schatz der Sierra Madre / Treasure of the Sierra Madre (USA 1948, with Humphrey Bogart , director: John Huston ), Warner Bros. June 14, 1949, 84 × 59 cm, print: Druckhaus Tempelhof, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on March 28, 1988, page 62, item 283 and a color illustration on color plate IV.
  As well as a color illustration in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 23, on October 10th 1992, page 33, item 115.
• The fate of those von Habsburg (D 1928), 1928, 127 × 88.5 cm
• Smuggler from Saigon (USA 1948, with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake ), Paramount 1948, 85 × 61 cm
• A seafaring is funny (D 1935), Rheinische Film GmbH 1935, 137 × 95 cm, poster art print Eckert, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 57, item 251.
• Every Woman's Longing (USA 1930), 1930, 137 × 94 cm
• City without a mask / The Naked City (USA 1948, with Barry Fitzgerald), Universal Pictures 1949, 82 × 59 cm, print: Lindemann & Lüdecke, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 6, on May 28, 1988, page 62, item 284.
• Diary of a lost person (D 1929), 1929, 137 × 91 cm
• The Corsair's Daughter (I 1940), 1950, 85.5 × 61 cm
• Unterwelt / Underworld (D 1927), Paramount on loan from ParUfaMet 1928, 142 × 95 cm
• Inherited drives (D 1929), 1929, 137 × 90.5 cm
• Vier Federn / Four Feathers (USA 1929, with William Powell , Richard Arlen and Fay Wray ), Paramount 1930, 140 × 95 cm, print: August Scherl, Berlin.
  A black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions No. 29, on April 23, 1994, page 49, item 178.
  As well as a black and white illustration contained in: Plakate Jörg Weigelt auction No. 33, on March 18, 1995, page 15, item 41.
• Violantha (USA 1927),
• White Shadows (USA 1928), 1929, 143 × 95.5 cm
• The Vikings (USA 1958), United Artists 1958, 84 × 61 cm
• Winchester 73 (USA 1950, with James Stewart and Shelley Winters ), Universal Pictures 1950, 86 × 61 cm
• The landlady of the white horse (also: The landlady of the Seehotel) (D 1943), 1950, 86 × 61 cm

swell

• Mostly taken from the publications of the German Federal Archives , the German Film Archive and the auction catalogs Plakate Jörg Weigelt Auctions , Hanover, 1986–2006, as well as own holdings.
• The UFA poster. Film premieres from 1918 to 1943. Exhibition catalog edited by Peter Mänz and Christian Maryška; 1998. An exhibition by the Kinemathek Foundation and the Austrian National Library in cooperation with the UFA Film & TV production of the Grundkreditbank and the Austrian Embassy.
• Volker Pantel: The Book of Movie Posters (1945-1965) . Günter Albert Ulmer Verlag, Tuningen 1984, ISBN 3-924191-04-2
• Volker Pantel / Manfred Christ: 444 movie posters from the golden years of cinema 1946–1966 . Eppe Verlag, Bergatreute 1993, ISBN 3-89089-650-2

Web links

• Heinz Schulz-Neudamm in Filmposter-Archiv.de (biogram, 52 posters)