Hermann Haller (film editor)
Hermann Haller (born December 15, 1909 in Zurich , † June 21, 1985 in Boswil ) was a Swiss film editor , film director and screenwriter .
Life
Hermann Haller son of the architect Jakob Haller and the German Gertrud geb. Benda, started as a film critic at the age of fourteen and gained an insight into film technology at the Bavarian State College for Photography . At the production company Emelka he initially worked as a dramaturge .
Haller soon turned to Berlin and trained as an editor with the Tobis Tonbild Syndicate . In the silent film The White Hell from Piz Palü , the twenty-year-old was responsible for the film editing alongside Arnold Fanck for the first time . In 1936 he withdrew from the National Socialist film policy by moving to Austria, where he mainly worked with the film director Géza von Bolváry .
After the annexation of Austria in 1938 returned Haller to Switzerland and took over important tasks for the film of intellectual national defense (eg. For the film Fusilier Wipf ). In addition to being an editor, he worked several times himself as a director or acted as artistic chief by assisting inexperienced directors.
After the end of the war he was gradually drawn back to German film. In the sixties Haller was involved in several Karl May films and Edgar Wallace films , among other things . Towards the end of his career, he also edited various Lederhosen films .
In 1935 he married the actress and painter Vera Racz (1910–1991). Later was married to the film editor Gisela Haller .
Filmography
- 1929: The white hell of Piz Palü
- 1931: The robbery of the Mona Lisa
- 1931: love command
- 1932: The rebel
- 1933: SOS Iceberg
- 1933: I don't know you and I love you
- 1933: The castle in the south
- 1933: spring parade
- 1934: ... with me this evening
- 1934: Farewell waltz
- 1934: heart is trump
- 1934: Something happens at midnight
- 1934: A winter night's dream
- 1934: Everything about a woman
- 1935: Stradivarius
- 1935: Variety show
- 1935: Love whispers
- 1936: The kidnapping
- 1936: The castle in Flanders
- 1936: Julika
- 1936: girls' boarding school
- 1936: Lumpacivagabundus
- 1937: premiere
- 1937: Music for you
- 1937: Kleine Scheidegg
- 1937: The magic of the bohemian
- 1937: The restless girls
- 1938: Mirror of Life
- 1938: Füsilier Wipf (also co-script)
- 1939: Defensive Switzerland (also director)
- 1940: Mir lönd nüd lugg
- 1940: Verena Stadler (also director)
- 1940: Gilberte de Courgenay (also artistic director)
- 1941: The hotel porter (also director)
- 1942: The Haunted House (also artistic management)
- 1943: Comedy about Erika (short film, also director)
- 1943: Wild vacation
- 1943: Euses Bähnli (documentary film, also director)
- 1943: Marie-Louise (also artistic director)
- 1944: Potato (documentary, also director)
- 1945: The last chance (also artistic direction)
- 1945: Fields of Industry (documentary, also director)
- 1945: Between War and Peace (documentary, also director)
- 1946: Staying young (documentary, also director)
- 1946: GIs in Switzerland (documentary, also director)
- 1947: Matto rules (also artistic directorship)
- 1947: Pestalozzi-Dorf (documentary film, also director)
- 1947: The drawn
- 1948: After the storm
- 1949: A sailor is not a snowman
- 1950: The four in the jeep
- 1952: Palace Hotel (Palace Hotel)
- 1952: Heidi
- 1953: Split of the Heart (The Venus of Tivoli) (only editing supervision)
- 1954: Uli the servant
- 1954: Heidi and Peter
- 1955: Uli the tenant
- 1956: you are music
- 1956: The Sunday Child
- 1957: Taxi driver Bänz (also co-director)
- 1958: It happened in broad daylight (also artistic direction)
- 1959: Peter Voss, the hero of the day
- 1959: A man walks through the wall
- 1960: The youth judge
- 1960: reason for divorce: love
- 1960: I count my worries every day
- 1960: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part I: How Jakobli got a woman (also artistic director)
- 1960: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part II: Jakobli and Meyeli (also artistic directors)
- 1960: Town Without Pity ( Town Without Pity )
- 1960: The good soldier Schwejk
- 1961: The marriage of Mr. Mississippi
- 1961: The shadows grow longer
- 1961: The Liar
- 1961: In the steel network of Dr. Mabuse
- 1962: The invisible claws of Dr. Mabuse
- 1962: Snow White and the seven jugglers
- 1962: The treasure in the Silbersee
- 1963: The zinc man
- 1963: The black abbot
- 1963: The Indian cloth
- 1964: Schellen-Ursli
- 1963: Winnetou 1st part
- 1964: Waiting room to the afterlife
- 1964: Winnetou 2nd part
- 1964: Among vultures
- 1965: The Oil Prince
- 1965: Old Surehand 1st part
- 1965: The last of the Mohicans
- 1966: Charged under Section 218
- 1966: The Nibelungs (2 parts)
- 1967: The Snake Pit and the Pendulum
- 1967: dynamite in green silk
- 1968: The six cummerbubs (also artistic management)
- 1968: Death in the red jaguar
- 1968: Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead
- 1968: Bunnies in the pit
- 1969: The dissolute life of the Marquis de Sade (De Sade)
- 1969: Helgalein
- 1969: Josefine, the lovely kitten
- 1969: Heintje - A heart goes on a journey
- 1970: Memories of the Future (Documentary)
- 1970: We beat the timpani in the pan
- 1971: The Sea Wolf (TV four-part series)
- 1972: The bumsfidele marriage office
- 1972: Don't itch, buddy
- 1972: Young girls massage parlor
- 1972: Greetings from the Lederhose
- 1973: Don't itch, buddy Part 2 - The Bull Monastery
- 1974: Two friends on the mountain pasture
- 1974: The Hunter of Fall
- 1975: Call of the gold (TV four-part)
- 1976: The Law of the Clan
- 1976: Greetings from the Lederhose, 3rd part: Sex-Express in Upper Bavaria
- 1977: Oh la la, the little blondes are here
- 1978: Greetings from the Lederhose, 4th part: The dirty wedding night
- 1978: Greetings from the Lederhose, 5th part: The Bruchpiloten vom Königsee
- 1978: Two Danish women in lederhosen
- 1979: Kreuzberg Love Nights
- 1981: Let it go, buddy
literature
- Rachel Siggen-Bruttin : Hermann Haller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 7, 2006 .
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 492.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Haller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Haller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hermann Haller at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1941: Movie poster. The hotel porter, actor. Pandora-Film AG, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ film plot. The hotel porter. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Haller, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film editor, film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1985 |
Place of death | Boswil , Switzerland |