Hermann Fellner (film producer)

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Hermann Siegfried Fellner (born March 26, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany ; † March 22, 1936 in London , Great Britain ) was a German film producer and screenwriter , a pioneer of European cinematography .

Life

Fellner was already working in various areas of international theater before 1900. Together with Jules Greenbaum , he founded the production company Deutsche Vitascope GmbH in 1907 , which was to become one of the leading film companies in the early days of German cinema. Vitascope made a number of commercially successful films. In 1912 Fellner was able to win over the well-known stage actor Albert Bassermann for the cinema and produced the psychologizing drama The Other with him . In January 1914, Vitascope merged with the Projektions-Aktiengesellschaft-Union (PAGU). The brothers Greenbaum and Fellner took over the management of the new large company, which was to merge into the newly founded UFA in 1917 .

From the early stages of World War I , Fellner began to concentrate on creating film scripts. With the monumental films The Mistress of the World and The Indian Tomb , directed by Joe May , he was involved in two elaborate and expensive films as production manager soon after the end of the war. In 1922 Fellner began a cooperation with his Hungarian colleague Josef Somló, who was active in Berlin . The Felsom company (Fellner & Somlo GmbH) was created from the three first letters of both surnames. Felsom films were lightweight materials, especially romantic comedies with music, which held their own in the market at the beginning of the sound film era. In 1926/27 and 1929, the producer Arnold Pressburger joined Fellner & Somló ; at that time the production company was called FPS

When the Nazis came to power , the Jews Fellner and Somló emigrated to Great Britain, where they parted ways. After a production for the company Gaumont , Wilhelm Thieles Waltz Time based on the template Die Fledermaus , Fellner founded Cecil Films with his colleague Max Schach, who also fled to England, and completed two more films. At the end of March 1936, Hermann Fellner was found hanged in his apartment in London-Westminster , a suicide.

Filmography

as a producer, unless otherwise stated

  • 1910: King and Page
  • 1910: thirst for love
  • 1910: Atoned for
  • 1910: Arsène Lupine versus Sherlock Holmes
  • 1910: His only good
  • 1911: In vain
  • 1911: Loyalty to servants
  • 1911: father and son
  • 1911: Madame Potiphar
  • 1911: Your childhood friend
  • 1911: The powder mill
  • 1911: sacrifice of love
  • 1911: Defiant blood
  • 1911: The Rose Thief
  • 1911: Countess and servant
  • 1911: Moon Night Magic
  • 1911: Ninon de l'Enclos
  • 1911: Zapfenstreich
  • 1912: Stephan Huller's oath, two parts
  • 1912: Juggler blood
  • 1912: Night figures
  • 1912: Love's thorn path
  • 1912: The black cat, two parts
  • 1912: Dying in the forest
  • 1913: The other
  • 1913: The golden bed
  • 1913: people and masks, two parts
  • 1913: The right to happiness
  • 1913: The Secret of Lisbon
  • 1913: The blue mouse
  • 1913: The silver cross
  • 1913: the white grave
  • 1913: The white horse
  • 1914: The brown beast
  • 1914: Second door on the left
  • 1914: a child's heart
  • 1914: woman against woman
  • 1914: Lache, Bajazzo
  • 1914: The Baskerville Hound, two parts
  • 1914: a strange case
  • 1915: The Katzensteg
  • 1915: Capital and Love (screenplay)
  • 1917: The bells of the Katharinenkirche (screenplay)
  • 1918: The Stolen Hotel (screenplay)
  • 1919: Madness (screenplay)
  • 1919: The Night on Goldenhall (screenplay)
  • 1919: The Mistress of the World (Production Manager)
  • 1921: The Indian tomb (production manager)
  • 1922: sins of yesterday
  • 1922: Firnenrausch (screenplay)
  • 1924: The Stolen Professor (screenplay)
  • 1925: my wife's dancer
  • 1926: A Dubarry from today
  • 1926: You don't play with love
  • 1926: Single daughters
  • 1927: The famous woman
  • 1927: The last night
  • 1927: The ghost train
  • 1928: The woman under torture
  • 1928: The band of robbers
  • 1928: Dyckerpott's heirs
  • 1928: House number 17
  • 1928: The dashing hussar
  • 1929: The strangler
  • 1929: The country without women
  • 1930: The linden landlady
  • 1930: money on the street
  • 1931: Three days of love
  • 1931: The flower woman from Lindenau
  • 1931: The Spanish fly
  • 1932: girls to marry
  • 1932: Tell Me Tonight
  • 1933: Waltz Time
  • 1935: Public Nuisance No. 1
  • 1936: Dishonour Bright

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 23219

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. 169 f.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fellner, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellner, Hermann Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1936
Place of death London , UK