Herbert Thallmayer
Herbert Thallmayer (born June 22, 1921 in Zurich , Switzerland , † after 1977) was an Austrian cameraman and documentary filmmaker .
biography
Thallmayer made contact with film during his studies at the end of the 1930s and served as camera assistant in Willi Forst's production of Ich bin Sebastian Ott . Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Thallmayer rose to the position of cameraman for short films at Wien-Film and was temporarily drafted in 1940. As part of a camera company, he drew a. a. responsible for some recordings during the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht. In 1942, as the junior partner of his more established colleague Günther Anders , Thallmayer was also involved in the recordings of the sentimental Hans Moser film Das Ferienkind , Thallmayer's first and only work as a feature film cameraman during the war.
After the war Herbert Thallmayer continued his work - starting with another Moser material, Der Herr Kanzleirat - initially in Viennese studios and initially photographed a series of partly sweet, partly romanticizing romances from the “good old days” as well as several German homeland films. In 1958 he ended his somewhat glamorous work as an entertainment film cameraman and from then on only photographed industrial and documentary films. Herbert Thallmayer and four colleagues (including Willy Zielke ) received the silver film tape in 1957 for his camera work on the documentary “ Creation without End ” . Occasionally Thallmayer was also responsible for Industriefilm as a director and author. After 1962 his trace is lost and hardly anything has been heard from the Munich resident.
Filmography
as chief cameraman of feature films, unless otherwise stated
- 1940: The history of the doll (short documentary film)
- 1940: Spring customs in the Ostmark (short documentary film)
- 1940: Battle for Norway - Campaign 1940
- 1941: Around Vienna (short documentary film)
- 1942: Märkische Fahrt (short documentary film)
- 1943: The holiday child
- 1944: Johann Gregor Mendel (short documentary)
- 1948: Mr. Chancellery
- 1949: We just got married
- 1951: Voices of Spring
- 1954: The Eternal Customer (short documentary)
- 1956: Where the old forests rustle
- 1956: The old forester's house
- 1956: Creation without End (documentary)
- 1957: White elder
- 1958: kisses that kill
- 1959: From Daniel to the High Light (short documentary film)
- 1960: Woven nature (short documentary film)
- 1961: Pipe made of steel (short documentary, also director)
- 1961: Aluminum from German smelters (short documentary, director and co-screenplay)
- 1961: Warning! Rays! (Short documentary)
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. 1721.
- Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume, p. 296
Web links
- Herbert Thallmayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herbert Thallmayer at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thallmayer, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cameraman, documentary film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1977 |