Herbert Lippschütz

Herbert Lippschütz , also Herbert Lippschitz , in the USA: Herbert O. Phillips (born February 28, 1904 in Berlin , Germany , † September 13, 1972 in Munich , Germany) was a German film architect with sporadic trips to film production and scripting work.

Life

After completing his professional training, Lippschütz joined the then silent film at the age of 24. He delivered his first scenographic work at the end of 1928 for a Richard Eichberg production. Until 1933, Lippschütz was a sought-after film architect for artistically less important entertainment films. Most of them were productions for which his brother Arnold Lippschütz regularly wrote the script.

In 1933 the Jew Lippschütz fled to the Iberian Peninsula . In Portugal he was still involved in Max Nosseck's production Gado bravo in 1933 and in his Spanish film Una semana de felicidad the following year . In 1935 Herbert Lippschütz furnished Nosseck's Spanish play adaptation Aventura oriental . Shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , Lippschütz went first to Vienna in 1936 , then to France . There he produced the films Boulot l'aviateur and L'affaire Lafarge the following year .

In June 1939 Lippschütz settled in the USA and called himself Herbert O. Phillips from then on. In Hollywood he got a job in the equipment department of Universal Studios . In 1944 he participated in the script for Alfred Zeisler's propaganda film Enemy of Women . The following year, Phillips / Lippschütz became a US citizen. In 1950 he was set by the television station ABC and was responsible for the series Space Patrol as a production designer . In 1956 he wrote the story for the B-crime thriller Murderous Trap .

In 1962 he returned to Germany and settled in Munich, where Lippschütz died ten years later of a pulmonary embolism in the Schwabing hospital. Herbert Lippschütz was buried in Munich's Jewish cemetery.

Filmography

• 1929: A small advance on bliss
• 1929: Who will cry when you part?
• 1930: The Warsaw Citadel
• 1930: The dance into happiness
• 1930: Tingel-Tangel
• 1930: The love doctor
• 1931: Dancers wanted for South America
• 1931: Trara about love
• 1931: a boiled boy
• 1931: The Red Cat's Secret
• 1931: His reason for divorce
• 1931: The high tourist
• 1931: Night column
• 1932: The cheeky badger
• 1932: Shot at dawn
• 1932: Dashed the bill
• 1933: The night in the forester's house
• 1933: Hugo's night work
• 1933: Gado bravo
• 1934: Una semana de felicidad
• 1935: Aventura oriental
• 1937: Boulot l'aviateur (production only)
• 1937: L'affaire Lafarge (production only)
• 1944: Enemy of Women (only script participation)
• 1951: Space Patrol (TV series)
• 1957: Murderous Trap (Hit and Run) (story template only)

Web links

• Herbert Lippschütz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Herbert Lippschütz at filmportal.de

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 591.