Herbert Körner

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Herbert Oskar Erwin Alwin Körner (born February 8, 1902 in Fürstenwalde , † May 27, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman .

Life

He began his career in 1920 at the Viennese production company Micco-Film, where he worked as a camera assistant . He made his first film as the responsible cameraman as part of a Sumatra expedition.

In the years that followed, Körner was behind the camera in numerous feature film productions. In 1932 he cooperated with Eugen Schüfftan in Die Herrin von Atlantis and applied his reflection method ( Schüfftan method ). As head cameraman he was mostly used in not particularly prestigious productions, only Karl Anton's revue films We Dance Around the World (1939) and Always Only You (1941) showed a greater effort.

After the Second World War, he started the documentary film Berlin under construction in 1946 . In the 1950s, several films about love and music followed, including 1956 A man doesn't always have to be beautiful with Peter Alexander .

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SURNAME Körner, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körner, Herbert Oskar Erwin Alwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1966
Place of death Berlin