Hermann Haller (film editor)

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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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1941: Movie poster. The hotel porter, actor. Pandora-Film AG, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ film plot. The hotel porter. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .


personal data
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