Hermann Warm

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Hermann Georg Warm (born May 5, 1889 in Berlin , † May 17, 1976 in West Berlin ) was a German film architect and set designer .

Life

Hermann Georg Warm attended an arts and crafts school in Berlin and worked as a theater painter for the Hugo Baruch company . In 1913 he was employed as a film architect for the first time - for Walter Schmidthässler's film Der Spion .

By 1915 he was established in the film industry with the equipment of entertainment films. After an interruption due to the war, he began working again for film in 1918 and incorporated the influences of Expressionism into his work. The film equipment for Otto Rippert's Die Pest in Florenz (1919), which was created together with Franz Jaffé , Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig , already had expressionist features, but the artistic climax was 1919/20 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari . Warm drafted and designed the spatial concept for the expressionist film with distorted and angled rooms as well as painted light and shadow together with Röhrig and Reimann.

Between 1919 and 1921 Hermann Warm also worked for Fritz Lang , most recently in 1921 with Walter Röhrig for Der müde Tod . Warm then turned to realistic film structures and equipment, as can be seen in the two Murnau films Schloss Vogelöd (1921) and Phantom (1922).

Warms buildings found in the 1920s and early 1930s in French-language versions of German films use, he was in 1932 on the German-French co-production Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer involved. During the time of German National Socialism, Hermann Warm was only involved in film productions until 1940, including three films by Veit Harlan and two by Hans Steinhoff . In 1941 he went to Switzerland and did not return to Germany until 1947.

He was able to build on his earlier work in West German film and worked as a production designer until 1960. In 1965 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 264.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1913-1914. Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Warm, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warm, Hermann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1976
Place of death West Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany