Hermann Schwerin (film producer)

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Hermann Schwerin (* 1902 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1970 near Bad Tölz ) was a German lawyer , film company manager and film producer .

Live and act

Very little is known about Schwerin's early career. He studied law up to his doctorate and later switched to the film industry. As UFA manager, he was in charge of film productions, after the relocation of the former state-owned company, which was in the process of dissolution, to Varenholz Castle in 1945, he even headed this company for a time. In 1946/47, Schwerin financed his first post-war film from Vlotho , the strip Migratory Birds produced by Helmuth Schönnenbeck .

Schwerin's UFA commitment ended shortly after the Federal Republic of Germany was founded. At the beginning of the 1950s, he founded his own production company, Fono-Film GmbH, which was initially based in Munich and Hamburg, but was eventually relocated to the west of the former capital when Schwerin moved to Berlin-Grunewald . He was also the managing director of the short-lived Ferro-Film GmbH, for which he only produced his first film, Gefangene Seele (1951). Schwerin productions of the 50s were mostly not very demanding, but sometimes, like the doctor's biography Sauerbruch - That was my life , commercially very successful. Towards the end of the decade, Schwerin also began to be interested in ambitious materials: the anti-war film Die Brücke , directed by Bernhard Wicki , was an international hit with critics.

At the Berlinale 1964 , he was on the jury, the end of the following year ended Schwerin with his participation in a Swiss-German coproduction its active film career.

Hermann Schwerin had been in a relationship with actress Grethe Weiser since 1934 , whom he married in 1958. He died in a serious traffic accident in Upper Bavaria in early October 1970. While he died at the scene of the accident, his wife survived him by a few hours.

tomb

He is buried in the Heerstrasse cemetery.

Filmography

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 684.
  • 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. 1562.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UFA in Varenholz
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, film company manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1970
Place of death near Bad Tölz