Hubert Moest

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Richard Hubert Moest (born December 3, 1877 in Cologne , † December 5, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German film director , actor , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

The son of the sculptor Richard Moest attended high school in Cologne, an art school and worked as a painter . In 1895 he began appearing as an actor and operetta singer at Schmierenbühnen in Bad Godesberg , Hagen and other cities in West Germany. He came to Berlin in 1912 and was part of the ensemble of the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . In the same year he also worked as a theater director .

Then he turned to the film, where, after his debut as an actor in 1914, numerous melodramas and comedies staged. His first film as a director was the film Self-Directed or: The Yellow Face , which his wife Hedda Vernon produced for him with her in the lead role. Often she, with whom he was married from 1913 to 1920, was also the leading actress in the productions of Eiko-Film. Although he was called up as a train soldier in the spring of 1915 , he was able to continue his directorial work without restrictions.

At the end of 1919 he founded his own Moest-Film GmbH. When Waldemar von Briger acquired the majority of the shares in January 1922, Moest left the company and founded Moest-Produktions GmbH in February. After the project The Amber Witch failed to materialize, he founded Aladin-Film Co. AG with Friedrich Weißenberg in April 1922. In 1925 he received the last time he was commissioned to direct a film production of the drama Götz von Berlichingen through Ring-Film .

At the end of the 1930s Moest, who had been married to the Jew Elly Charlotte Liepmann since 1923 and lived under difficult conditions, found a job as a temporary worker at Elekta-Film in Prague . In 1942 he was used again as an actor in a conspiracy against Marco , the German version of an Italian production.

Filmography (as a director)

  • 1913: people and masks (actors only)
  • 1914: The Millionaire Mine (actors only)
  • 1914: Self-directed or: The yellow grimace
  • 1915: Maria Nobody and her twelve fathers
  • 1915: The marriage trap
  • 1915: But love found a way
  • 1915: Maid pranks
  • 1915: Zofia
  • 1916: Mask play of the night
  • 1916: The victim of the Wera Wogg
  • 1916: The miracle of the night
  • 1916: The begging princess
  • 1916: The Road to Wealth
  • 1916: The picture of the ancestress
  • 1916: Hans in luck
  • 1916: Hedda in the bath
  • 1916: Hedda Vernon's stage sketch
  • 1916: Suzanne's virtue
  • 1916: The knitting needles
  • 1916: His flirtatious wife
  • 1917: The red shoes
  • 1917: The strange woman
  • 1917: Noemi, the blond Jewess
  • 1917: The rejected
  • 1917: When the wolf comes
  • 1918: Mouchy (also co-script)
  • 1918: The scar on the knee (also actor)
  • 1918: the bracelet
  • 1918: ... but the greatest evil is guilt
  • 1918: shackles
  • 1918: The girl from the opium den
  • 1918: puppet
  • 1918:… lucky for an hour
  • 1918: Where there's a will, there's a way (also script)
  • 1918: The prisoner of Dahomy
  • 1918: The secret of death
  • 1919: the heiress
  • 1919: Galeotto, the great matchmaker (also screenplay)
  • 1919: The big risk
  • 1919: The witch from Norderoog
  • 1919: last love
  • 1919: The lash of the whip
  • 1919: tumult
  • 1919: Circassian blood
  • 1919: Ut mine stromtid (also co-script and production)
  • 1919: His confession
  • 1919: Blond poison
  • 1919: The jumping jack (also actor)
  • 1919: childhood love
  • 1919: Everything was wrong
  • 1919: who thirst for love
  • 1920: The pushover king
  • 1920: Through bliss and sins
  • 1920: The women's refuge in Brescia (also co-script)
  • 1920: Lepain, the king of criminals (also actor)
  • 1920: Maita
  • 1921: One-Eyed Club (also screenplay)
  • 1921: The pure sinner (also production)
  • 1921: The room with the seven doors (also production)
  • 1921: The Virgin of Kynast (also production)
  • 1921: Lady Godiva
  • 1923: The Franconian Song
  • 1923: The sun in St. Moritz
  • 1924: The dying earth
  • 1925: Between two women
  • 1925: Götz von Berlichingen named with the iron hand (also screenplay)
  • 1942: Conspiracy against Marco (actors only)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iris Benner, Michael Rief: Collection - Restore - Gotize. the carver Richard Moest 1841–1906; on the 100th year of death , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen; 2007, ISBN 3-929203-65-0
  2. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1913 - 1914 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 579 .
personal data
SURNAME Moest, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moest, Richard Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1953
Place of death Berlin