Herbert Silbermann

Herbert Silbermann (born June 28, 1897 in Breslau ; † October 15, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German film producer .

Live and act

Born in Wroclaw, he joined film after graduating from high school. There he learned the movie business from scratch and worked successively as manager , production manager and finally as a producer of company Splendid Film ( " Highness amused and Phoebus film") ( Trenck ) . Silbermann produced several productions of Conrad Wienes in the late silent and early sound films.

Silbermann survived the Nazi era in emigration from Western Europe. In Belgium he was surprised by the annexation of Austria (March 1938) during the preparatory work for the planned Hans Behrendt film “ Revolution der Jugend ”, an Austrian-Belgian co-production , so that this film project could no longer be implemented. After the Second World War , Herbert Silbermann, the only one of four siblings who had survived the Holocaust , returned to Germany (Federal Republic) and settled in Hamburg. There he founded his old Phoebus film company under the name " Phoebus International Filmproduktion Herbert Silbermann " in 1949 . On the side, Silbermann worked as a freelance writer and in 1952 directed the documentary " Walzer von Strauss ".

Filmography

1929: Eros in chains
1929: Revolution of the youth
1930: A prostitute has been murdered
1930: Madame Bluebeard
1931: As long as Strauss's waltz continues
1932: Your Highness is having fun
1932: Johann Strauss, kuk Hofkapellmeister
1932: Trenck
1933: Not a day without you
1952: Strauss Waltz (documentary, director, production)

literature

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1613 f.

Remarks

↑ The film was made in 1930, see shooting report in Mein Film, No. 250, p. 9, and should also be released in cinemas that year. The film program Illustrierter Film-Kurier No. 1503 was already printed when lengthy legal disputes arose (for details see Liddy Hegewald ). There is a censorship clearance from 1932 (B.30842, January 14, 1932, youth ban. Source: filmportal.de), but so far there is no evidence that the film was actually shown in Germany.

Individual proof

^ Herbert and Ruth Silbermann files, Reparation Office, holdings 351-11, call number 20217, Hamburg State Archives
↑ 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. 91.
↑ Hamburg Commercial Register HRA 53105

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personal data
SURNAME	Silbermann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1957
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[4] The film was made in 1930, see shooting report in Mein Film, No. 250, p. 9, and should also be released in cinemas that year. The film program Illustrierter Film-Kurier No. 1503 was already printed when lengthy legal disputes arose (for details see Liddy Hegewald ). There is a censorship clearance from 1932 (B.30842, January 14, 1932, youth ban. Source: filmportal.de), but so far there is no evidence that the film was actually shown in Germany.

[1] Herbert and Ruth Silbermann files, Reparation Office, holdings 351-11, call number 20217, Hamburg State Archives

[2] 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. 91.

[3] Hamburg Commercial Register HRA 53105