Heinz von Jaworsky
Heinz von Jaworsky (born May 18, 1912 in Berlin ; † July 17, 1999 in the US state of New York , USA ) was a German cameraman , mostly employed in special, documentary and newsreel recordings.
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The merchant's son had attended secondary school and then passed the Abitur. In addition, he trained in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1930 he began his film career as assistant to the cameraman Hans Schneeberger , whom he worked until 1934 (most recently with Hermine and the seven upright people ). In this function, Jaworsky was also involved in the creation of Leni Riefenstahl's directorial debut The Blue Light and in a film by Arnold Fanck with Riefenstahl as an actress, SOS Eisberg .
At the side of Schneeberger, Jaworsky made his debut at the end of 1934 in the semi-documentary film Wunder des Fliegens as co-chief cameraman. Already there he proved his skill in aerial photography, and from then on Jaworsky was mainly used for special photography - mainly around aviation. In this area, he managed in 1940/41 at two classic aviation movies, the propaganda Kampfgeschwader Lutzow as well as the Riihmann -Klassiker Quax, the Crash Pilot to the highest perfection. Jaworsky's other feature films and documentaries in the Third Reich were also predominantly regime-supportive, if not openly propagandistic ( Pour le Mérite , D III 88 , campaign in Poland ). In 1935/36 he also served Luis Trenker , whom Jaworsky had already met while he was working as an assistant, on the America filming of Der Kaiser von California , and the following year Riefenstahl served as one of several dozen cameramen on her two-part Olympic film.
In 1941 he was drafted and assigned to the Air Force as a cameraman for aerial photos. Numerous Jaworsky recordings were used in the Reich German newsreel . His last cinematic activity in the Third Reich was in the winter of 1944/45, the trick shoots for Wolfgang Liebeneiner's ambitious, unfinished large-scale production Life goes on . In 1945/46, Jaworsky, who had a good command of English, served as an interpreter in the US Press Center before returning to film in 1946. There he found employment as a cameraman for the DEFA weekly news show Der Augenzeuge . At the beginning of 1948 he photographed the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz as one of seven cameramen for the Swiss producer Heinrich Fueter as part of a Swedish-Swiss joint production .
In February 1952, Heinz von Jaworsky moved to the USA with his wife Eva and two-year-old son Daniel and settled there. Based in New York (78th Street, Jackson Heights), from then on he almost exclusively photographed newsreels as well as advertising and industrial films. Only in a few cases, in which US locations were required for German feature films, was Jaworsky brought behind the camera and allowed him to do the American on-site scenes (such as Spion für Deutschland and the Jerry Cotton product Dynamit in green silk ).
Jaworsky, who called himself Henry V. Javorsky in the United States and who had taken US citizenship there in May 1957, last lived in Hollis, Queens, New York State.
Filmography
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literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 758.
Web links
- Heinz von Jaworsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heinz von Jaworsky at filmportal.de
- The blue light: Information on the shooting and work shots by the still photographer and 2nd cameraman Walter Riml
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jaworsky, Heinz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1999 |
| Place of death | New York , United States |