Hubert Schonger

Portrait of Hubert Schonger

Hubert Schonger (born October 19, 1897 in Bachhagel , Dillingen an der Donau district , Germany ; † February 21, 1978 in Inning am Ammersee ) was a German film director and film producer . He has made a name for himself both as a filmmaker and as a film producer in the genres: cultural films and nature films, music films , fairy tales and literary adaptations , Heimatfilm and mountain films . He was also the founder and head of the German film production company Schongerfilm .

Life

In 1923, Schonger set up the production company “Naturfilm Hubert Schonger” in Berlin . After the Second World War he worked with his company "Schonger-Film" based in Inning am Ammersee in the Bavarian-Austrian region.

Hubert Schonger took an early interest in nature. In 1923, at the request of the film pioneer Hermann Hähnle from Giengen Vogelwart , Hubert Schonger became a member of the bird protection island of Mellum . There, in collaboration with Hermann Hähnle, he made his first film: Mellum - the bird paradise in the North Sea. The film is still passed down today and is preserved today at the Hermann Hähnle community of heirs in Vienna .

The company "Naturfilm Hubert Schonger" made numerous films about individual counties and regions in Germany in the 1920s. One of them is called by beautiful Westphalia in 1929, other titles are: Swabian Homeland , The Black Forest , Winter in the Bavarian Forest , Wooden Ride on the Königssee , The Stone Sea , Silesia , In the Land of Bird Migration (a six-part film about the Curonian Spit ), In the Spreewald , Sunny Land (over the eastern Harz ), Helgoland , Hermann Löns and his heath . Both river landscapes Ahoi - a film from the Elbe , the creative Rhine , the Moselle and cities like Villingen in the Black Forest : A beautiful old city like Quedlinburg : an old city on the Harz or Hamburg or Berlin are portrayed in films.

He undertakes film expeditions to distant countries, including Africa , Alaska , the Arctic and South America . Films emerge like the five-part cultural film In Search of Atlantis (Part 1: In Search of Atlantis - Part 2: At the world's oil faucet. Curaçao and Colombia - Part 3: With 50,000 HP through jungle and swamp - Part 4: The last Mayans - Part 5: Venezuela , the country without debts.), Alaska's white wonderland , On the edge of the eternal ice or Egypt , the land of the pyramids . He accompanies aviation pioneers on their flights with the camera, such as the English aviation pioneer Alan Cobham in The Black Continent, as the bird sees it and Walter Mittelholzer's Africa Flight 1930 . In 1927, Hubert Schonger published the publication Auf Islands Vogelbergen for the film Iceland , which was published by the State Agency for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia .

In addition to animal films such as Am Horst der wild Adler , Wisent in Not and nature films such as With the Camera through the German Forest , A Strangler in the Plant Kingdom , The Flower of Dreams , Miracles of Nature or Petri Heil , Hubert Schonger produces films from the field of: Traffic like Die last sailing ships from Heinrich Hauser (1931), on board the four-master Pamir , seafaring is necessary! and contact about aviation in global traffic, about sports like happy gymnastics , girls rowing on Saale and Unstrut and from the fields of industry and technology : man and machine , a match conquers the world , fighting the dust in the German Museum in Munich , coke , At the Koehler and In the slate pits of the Sauerland .

In 1933 Hubert Schonger wrote on the company's 10th anniversary: The result: 244 films from nature, human life, technology and business, films from the German homeland, for the most part produced at a time when the great tasks of cultural film were still little recognized.

In addition to film production, Hubert Schonger also contributes to the distribution of interesting documentaries in Germany with his film distribution , such as Nanook of the north - Nanuk, der Eskimo ( Robert J. Flaherty . 1922), from the description of Hubert Schonger's catalog of nature film: The best Eskimo -Movie. The prime example of the good film that never gets out of date. Nanuk the Eskimo by Robert J. Flaherty is considered one of the first documentaries. Feature films are also part of the repertoire of the Schonger Filmverleih, such as the Swedish silent film Korkarlen - Fuhrmann des Todes by Victor Sjöström (1921) based on the novella by Selma Lagerlöf , Die Weber by Friedrich Zelnik (Germany 1927) based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann or the fairy tale film adaptation by Wilhelm Hauff The stone heart .

In 1927 the film company Naturfilm Hubert Schonger, Berlin, on behalf of the NSDAP Munich, produced the film Party Conference Nuremberg , which has been handed down as a fragment. 1928 arise Stahlhelmtag in Hamburg by Dr. Hans Hübotter, who also appears at the censorship authority as the lawyer for Hubert Schonger Naturfilm, (the cameras in this film are Robert Eibig, Gustav Stiefel, Richard Boehm, Hubert Schonger and Lorenz Paringer) and the Mitteldeutscher Stahlhelmsporttag in Halle (Saale) .

In 1928 Hubert Schonger films Die Kinder-Republik about a Red Falcon camp on the Uedersee. In 1930 payroll accountant Kremke , the first and only directorial work of Marie Harder , head of the SPD -Film- and photo service, and The Song of force by Lorenz Paringer, a three-part documentary film with scenes about the world power conference 1930 - Part 1: The Essence of electricity - 2nd part: The becoming of electricity - 3rd part: The application of electrical energy.

In 1931 Hubert Schonger produced for Heinrich Hauser Chicago - A World City in Flegeljahren , a silent documentary film about Chicago , which shows the fascination of the author Heinrich Hauser in view of technical progress, but at the same time also reflects the dark side of industrial production. After a one-time screening in Berlin, the film ended up in the archive, rejected as an educational film. In 1984 the film was rediscovered and reconstructed, underlaid with sounds and noises for the present television version and shown on WDR .

Life in Greetsiel , a fishing village on the North Sea, is captured for the first time in the documentary film Fischerkinder an der Nordsee , which the Berlin nature filmmaker Hubert Schonger shot in 1936 with the collaboration of Greetsiel's teacher Hermann Naber.

In 1940 Hubert Schonger Naturfilm Berlin produced the film adaptation of the poem by Friedrich Rückert Vom Bäumlein, which other sheets wanted , "in which the animator Heinz Tischmeyer (* 1913) had the infamous striker caricature of a Jew appear".

Hubert Schonger made his first film adaptation of a fairy tale in 1938: Snow White and Rose Red . This was followed by film adaptations of fairy tales 1939 Die Heinzelmännchen (based on the story Die Wichtelmänner ), 1940 Hansel and Gretel , 1942 The brave little tailor . He produced fairy tale films by the Brothers Grimm for fellow film colleagues : for Alfred Stöger in 1938, Tischchen deck dich, gold donkey and stick out of the sack, and for Carl Heinz Wolff in 1939 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

After the Second World War he realizes and continues to produce fairy tales by the brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, such as Frau Holle in 1947/1948 . In 1953 Hubert Schonger made the fairy tale films Little Brother and Little Sister and The Golden Goose together with Walter Oehmichen . In 1949 he produced Hans im Glück for Peter Hamel and two fairy tale adaptations for Walter Janssen followed in 1954: Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood and in 1959 for Rainer Geis Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten . Hubert Schonger produced four fairy tale film adaptations for Erich Kobler : Snow White and Rose Red (1955) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1955), The Heinzelmännchen (1956) and Rübezahl - Lord of the Mountains (1957). Based on the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff : Little Jakob Hubert Schonger realized Zwerg Nase for Francesco Stefani in 1952 and Tischlein deck dich for Jürgen von Alten in 1956 . Hubert Schonger and his production company shot The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats for Peter Podehl in 1957 and Frau Holle - The Fairy Tale of Goldmarie and Pechmarie in 1961 .

These fairy tale films are still partly on television and abroad, especially in the USA, under the following titles: The Bremen Town Musicians , Hansel and Gretel , The Big Bad Wolf , Snow White , Snow White and Rose Red , Dwarf Nose , The Shoemaker and the Elves .

Even after the war, Hubert Schonger initially continued to produce cultural films: The Congo Film . Equator of the Hundred Faces received a gold medal at the Venice Biennale in 1949 . With Gerda Otto , an animation filmmaker, he realized The Walking Bell in 1949 and produced Das Wunderfenster for her in 1951/52 .

In 1950 Hubert Schonger made the film Paradise on Earth , an expedition in Switzerland . In 1955, Hubert Schonger produced the documentary film Your Horoscope - Your Fate? For Konrad Lustig . , on the role of astrology and in 1961 for Peter Podehl Hosianna , the film adaptation of the youth book Ahimeh by Eva Rechlin. In 1963 Hubert Schonger made a trip to Java , Sumatra and Indonesia , where he realized his film Paradies ohne Sünde, based on the book by Peter Fleischmann . This is followed in 1967 by the production of Tanja - die Nackte von der Teufelsinsel by A. Hofherr and in 1969 his own film The Journey to the Happy Islands , a cinematic expedition to the Pacific Islands, on which Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty made their film in 1931 Have turned taboo . As the film historian Enno Patalas wrote in 2003, in 1971 Hubert Schonger gave the Austrian Film Museum over 10,000 meters of Nitrofilm von Tabu , a film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1931 (8,000 meters of negative material and approx. 1,500 meters of positive film) together with the negative material, the developed at George Bambridge's laboratory in Papeete .

In addition to the film expeditions, Hubert Schonger Filmproduktion mainly produces home films from Bavaria : 1957 Two Sailors on the Alm by Peter Hamel and in 1959 O these Bavaria by Arnulf Schröder and Hubertusjagd by Hermann Kugelstadt . His production company also supports young German filmmakers, such as Klaus Lemke in 1966 with the executioner Tom , who was awarded a gold ducat at the short film festival in Mannheim and in which Rudolf Thome played the leading role, and like Peter Fleischmann in 1967 with Herbst der Gammler .

In addition to production, Hubert Schonger Filmproduktion is also dedicated to film distribution. In addition to their own productions, films such as B. Senora di Fatima - The Miracle of Fatima (Rafael Gil, Spain Portugal 1951) with Ines Orsini and Fernando Rey , Behind Klostermauern ( Harald Reinl , 1952), the Universum Film (UFA) productions such as Honeymoon ( Karl Ritter Germany 1940) and A Everyday Story (Günter Rittau, Germany 1944–1945), the Tobis production from 1940 The three Codonas by Arthur Maria Rabenalt with René Deltgen and Ernst von Klipstein or The Secret Countess ( Géza von Cziffra , Austria 1943–1944) both for the normal cinema audience as well as for home cinema as narrow films (8 mm and 16 mm).

Hubert Schonger has also become internationally known as a producer of mountain films . In 1947 the mountain and ski filmmaker Harald Reinl directs the short film by Hubert Schonger and Josef Plesner ten years later . This collaboration resulted in Harald Reinl Bergkristall's feature film debut - Der Wildschütz von Tirol . Hubert Schonger produced this German-Austrian co-production. The film is considered to be one of the first homeland films after the war and is developing into an undreamt-of success. This film also marks the beginning of a successful collaboration with important German silent film composers, with the Italian Giuseppe Becce (1877–1973), which is reflected in three other film productions: in Paradise on Earth (Hubert Schonger, Switzerland 1950), Hansel and Gretel ( Walter Janssen 1954) and Little Red Riding Hood (Walter Janssen, FRG 1954). Even today, Hubert Schonger's film productions are presented as classics at mountain film festivals, such as Ski Extreme by Jürgen Gorter Junior (1968) and the films by Lothar Bandler Da lacht Tirol (1967) with Beppo Brem and Der Blitz - Inferno am Montblanc (1971 / 1972) .

Filmography

Director

• 1923: Mellum, the bird paradise in the North Sea (together with Hermann Hähnle )
• 1929: Through beautiful Westphalia (5 parts: 1. The Münsterland, 2. Around the Ruhr and Lippe, 3. Sauerland, Siegerland and Wittgensteiner Land, 4. The Sauerland and the Soester Börde, 5. Teutoburg Forest and Weserbergland)
• 1932: a people awakens
• 1932: Between mountains, chimneys and moated castles (4th parts: 1. The Münsterland 2. Industrial area 3. Sauerland, Siegerland and Wittgensteiner country 4. Around the Teutoburg Forest and Weser)
• 1932: Between fire and ice
• 1934: Life laughs (together with Willy Lichtwarck, Hans Egon Koch)
• 1936: Fisher children at the North Sea (collaboration with Hermann Naber)
• 1939: The brownies
• 1939: That's Mexico
• 1940: Frieder and Catherlieschen
• 1940: Hansel and Gretel
• 1942: The brave little tailor
• 1947: Ten years later (together with Josef Plesner)
• 1947/1948: Mrs. Holle
• 1948: A barrel of fun
• 1948: The enchanted handkerchief
• 1948: The lucky pig
• 1949: On a long journey
• 1949: The Walking Bell (together with Gerda Otto)
• 1950: paradise on earth
• 1953: Little brother and sister (together with Walter Oehmichen )
• 1953: The golden goose (together with Walter Oehmichen )
• 1961: mountain game
• 1961: Young Senegal
• 1961: White wings over the reeds
• 1963: Paradise without sin

script

• 1942: The brave little tailor (Hubert Schonger)
• 1949: Bergkristall (Der Wildschütz von Tirol, Harald Reinl )
• 1950: Paradise on Earth (Hubert Schonger)
• 1956: Die Heinzelmännchen (Erich Kobler - script together with Erich Kobler, Konrad Lustig)
• 1959: The Bremen Town Musicians (Rainer Geis)

production

• 1923: Mellum, the bird paradise in the North Sea (Hubert Schonger, Hermann Hähnle )
• 1923/24: Deep sea fishing in winter
• 1923/24: Natural history from the German forest
• 1923/24: The modern construction of electric motors
• 1924: Inland sea fishing in winter
• 1924: Hiddensee (camera: Hubert Schonger, Karl Trautwein, Hans Brehmer, Gustav Stiefel)
• 1924: Creative people - happy people
• 1924: Sun people
• 1924: The Stone Sea (Sonnenkinder)
• 1924: Lößnitz winegrowers festival
• 1924: Wisent in need
• 1925: Egypt, the land of the pyramids
• 1925: From the Bavarian Forest. Part 1: The Bavarian Forest in Summer
• 1925: The thunderstorm, danger of lightning and how to fight them
• 1925: The silver fox
• 1925/1926: German silver fox breeding
• 1925/1926: Im Bruch and Moor
• 1926: Iceland
• 1926: Farmer, protect your property
• 1926: Silesian country
• 1926: Writing and writing tools
• 1926/1927: On a lignite mine in Niederlausitz
• 1926/1927: At the Koehler's
• 1926/1927: ruff
• 1927: The chaffinch
• 1927: Inauguration of the Bahrensdorf fire brigade school with rest home
• 1927: The manufacture of porcelain
• 1927: Adebar family
• 1927: Giants on rails
• 1927: The linnet
• 1927: Hagen, the gateway to the Sauerland mountains
• 1927: The Harz
• 1927: Cheers to the noble falconry
• 1927: carp
• 1927: coke
• 1927: Salmon farming
• 1927: Salmon fishing on the Upper Rhine
• 1927: In the mine
• 1927: In the Spreewald. A picture of German homeland as the seasons change
• 1927: In a silver fox farm
• 1927: The nature reserve in the Lüneburg Heath
• 1927: Nuremberg Party Congress 1927 (NSDAP)
• 1927: Silesia
• 1927: swans
• 1927: The steel helmet honors Hindenburg
• 1927: The steel helmet in Berlin
• 1927: Stork in need
• 1927: Our stork
• 1927: About the marmot
• 1927: world record in gliding
• 1927: Winter in the Bavarian Forest
• 1927: Berlin Central Airport
• 1927/1931: The frog
• 1927/1928: In the slate pits of the Sauerland
• 1927/1928: Iserlohn in Westphalia
• 1927/1928: Lübben, the Spreewald district
• 1927/1928: From steel block to sheet metal
• 1928: Armenian refugees in Syria
• 1928: From the Bavarian Forest
• 1928: With woodcutters and glassblowers
• 1928: A visit to the VDA children's home in Crossen on the Oder
• 1928: The German athletes prepare for the Olympic Games
• 1928: The German athletes prepare for the Olympics. 1st chapter
• 1928: The German athletes prepare for the Olympics. Part 2
• 1928: Ice fishing in the Curonian Lagoon
• 1928: Heard from the German forest
• 1928: The drink of the millions
• 1928: The extraction of tetracarnite and its use in dyeing
• 1928: Behind motor plow and vice
• 1928: In the Jahnstadt Freyburg an der Unstrut
• 1928: In the heart of the Sauerland
• 1928: In the realm of children
• 1928: In the bird paradise of the North Sea
• 1928: map and atlas
• 1928: The Children's Republic
• 1928: Altena district, in the heart of the Brandenburg Sauerland
• 1928: Fredeberg-Neumark district. From the terminal moraine to the artificial road
• 1928: The Meschede district
• 1928: Wittgenstein district, Arnsberg district, Westphalia
• 1928: Mellum, the Wadden Sea
• 1928: Central German steel helmet sports day in Halle S.
• 1928: East Prussian Stahlhelm Conference on June 2 and 3, 1928
• 1928: The Protos iron
• 1928: The Protos device connection cord
• 1928: The Protos hot air shower
• 1928: Sachsenfilm from the 14th Gymnastics Festival in Cologne (July 21-29, 1928)
• 1928: Stahlhelm film report 1 - Inauguration of the Stahlhelmheim Arendsee
• 1928: Stahlhelm film report 2 - The Stahlhelm welcomes the ocean pilots
• 1928: Stahlhelm-Norway trip 1928
• 1928: Stahlhelm Day in Hamburg - Witnesses from great times (Hans Hübotter)
• 1928: Invisible Forces (4th part)
• 1928: 14th German Gymnastics Festival in Cologne (July 22-29, 1928)
• 1928: From the wire roll to the sewing needle
• 1928: A winter hike through the Bavarian Forest
• 1928: Witnesses from great times
• 1928/1929: A beautiful old town
• 1928/1929: In the land of bird migration. Pictures from the Curonian Spit
• 1928/1929: The struggle to preserve our waters
• 1928/1929: Housewives from Szczecin
• 1928/1929: A winter day in the Harz Mountains
• 1929: Eel fishing in the Elbe and the eel, miraculous life story
• 1929: An old town on the Harz
• 1929: At the edge of the eternal ice
• 1929: From the social work of the steel helmet
• 1929: The courtship grouse
• 1929: The Brown Secret
• 1929: Through beautiful Westphalia (5 parts) (Hubert Schonger)
• 1929: ore
• 1929: trout farming
• 1929: happy people
• 1929: Spring on the Rhine
• 1929: The manufacture of fuse cartridges at Voigt & Haeffner A.-G.
• 1929: Wooden ride on the Königssee
• 1929: The Orient Mission
• 1929: Sunny Land 2nd parts
• 1929: A day at Altena Castle
• 1929: Invisible Forces 5th part, 6th part. 7th part.
• 1929: Under black-white-red to green Styria
• 1929: The VDA in Kiel
• 1929/1930: eagles and falcons
• 1929/1930: A pleasant family friend
• 1929/1930: At an old watchmaker
• 1929/1930: Happy Villingen
• 1929/1930: The young girl town of Gernrode
• 1929/1930: Artistic gymnastics
• 1930: Warning! Attention! Central German State Gymnastics Festival Halberfest
• 1930: Ahoy! A film from the Elbe (Friedrich Krüger, camera: Hans Egon Koch)
• 1930: Armenian distress and Christian aid
• 1930: From the work of Dr. Lepsius German Orient Commission 2nd part: Syria work area.
• 1930: Berlin
• 1930: Pictures from the border district Friedeberg in the Neumark
• 1930: Pictures from the life of birds
• 1930: The German Gymnastics Festival 1928 in Cologne
• 1930: Through the Black Forest to the "Swabian Sea"
• 1930: Facilitating professional work through the use of electricity for light, power and heat
• 1930: A skyscraper is built
• 1930: Happy gymnastics
• 1930: The Song of Songs of Power (Lorenz Paringer)
• 1930: Perfectly hygienic milk production and processing using electricity
• 1930: Fight the dust
• 1930: Cooking, roasting and baking on the electric stove do not require supervision
• 1930: Thuringia power plant
• 1930: Laughing life
• 1930: Let German chimneys smoke
• 1930: Kremke payroll clerk
• 1930: The Lüneburg Heath
• 1930: In the Spreewald - a hike through the Lübben district
• 1930: Working Villingen
• 1930: Creates strength and joy
• 1930: a beautiful old town
• 1930: Bird protection
• 1930: From coal to electricity
• 1930: the alarm clock
• 1930: Paths to Joy
• 1930: the world port of Hamburg
• 1930: When we walk side by side
• 1930: Body and health care take a lot of time or ...
• 1930/31: The working day of the peasant woman
• 1930/31: Service to the youth
• 1930/31: Golden everyday life
• 1930/31: Heligoland
• 1930/31: The Moselle
• 1931: In the beginning there was power
• 1931: From the life and work of the Teltower MTV
• 1931: There where the Rhine moves north
• 1931: The German carp
• 1931: A gender is growing - gymnasts (Willy Wagner)
• 1931: A film from the Ostmark District Gymnastics Festival
• 1931: 75 years of the Association of German Engineers, consecration of the monument in Alexisbad
• 1931: Smooth start, safe journey
• 1931: Youth of Action
• 1931: Magdeburg
• 1931: Child in the sun
• 1931: With the big yarn
• 1931: The creative Rhine (Hans Wüstemann)
• 1931: Swabian homeland. Swabian film part 2
• 1931: cosmopolitan city in flail years. A report on Chicago ( Heinrich Hauser )
• 1931/1932: It's all about the salary
• 1931/1932: stored power
• 1931/1932: silver from Gmünd
• 1932: guys out
• 1932: German Symphony
• 1932: volunteers before
• 1932: Healthy fish diet
• 1932: Kinderland - Sonnenland
• 1932: The sounding miracle
• 1932: Radium therapy in general practice
• 1932: Stahlhelm marches
• 1932: Technical cultural monuments - Part 1.
• 1932: About the parties. 2nd Stahlhelmführer conference 4./5. May 1932 in Magdeburg
• 1932: Our future lies in Germany
• 1932: A people awakens (Hubert Schonger)
• 1932: Will and Defense
• 1932: Between mountains, chimneys and moated castles (4th parts: 1. The Münsterland 2. Industrial area 3. Sauerland, Siegerland and Wittgensteiner country 4. Around the Teutoburg Forest and Weser) (Hubert Schonger) (camera: Gustav Stiefel)
• 1932: Between Fire and Ice (Hubert Schonger)
• 1932/33: At the eyrie of the wild eagle (director and camera: Walter Hege )
• 1932/33: The Virgin
• 1932/33: Soldiers' Day
• 1933: In search of Atlantis
• 1933: Berlin 1933
• 1933: Pictures from the Black Forest and Lake Constance
• 1933: Federal celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Federation Queen Luise, Potsdam - Berlin 1933
• 1933: Swastika on a steel helmet (camera: Hans Egon Koch)
• 1933: Fight with the dust (Hans Wittemeier)
• 1933: Independent arc welding facilities
• 1933: The warning call
• 1934: On the spinning wheel of our time
• 1934: In the Spreewald
• 1934: Battle with the moor (camera: Franz Klein)
• 1934: Life laughs (Hubert Schonger, together with Willy Lichtwarck, Hans Egon Koch)
• 1934: To South America in three days
• 1934: New life on Sieg and the Rhine
• 1934: Württemberg
• 1935: Blessing on German soil
• 1935: Wonderful Gothic world
• 1935/1936: general views of the sky
• 1936: At a German hacienda in Mexico
• 1936: Fishermen's children at the North Sea (Hubert Schonger, collaboration with Hermann Naber)
• 1936: Sisal harvest in Yucatan
• 1937: Lapping of piston pins
• 1938: Research trip to the cave wonders (camera: Hans Egon Koch)
• 1938: Snow White and Rose Red (Hubert Schonger)
• 1938: Set a table, donkey and stick out of the sack (Alfred Stöger)
• 1939: The Brownies (Hubert Schonger)
• 1939: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Carl Heinz Wolff )
• 1939: This is Mexico (Hubert Schonger)
• 1940: Big day in Ruhleben ( Heinz Paul )
• 1940: Hansel and Gretel (Hubert Schonger)
• 1940: Air raid protection also in the country
• 1940: From the tree that wanted other leaves (Heinz Tischmeyer)
• 1942: The ice breaks in the east (camera: Gustav Stiefel)
• 1942: men, sea and storms
• 1942: The brave little tailor (Hubert Schonger)
• 1942/1943: The moon lantern
• 1947: Ten years later (together with Josef Plesner)
• 1947/1948: Mrs. Holle (Hubert Schonger)
• 1948: The Lucky Pig (Hubert Schonger)
• 1948: A barrel full of fun (Hubert Schonger)
• 1948: The enchanted handkerchief (Hubert Schonger)
• 1949: On the long journey (Hubert Schonger)
• 1949: Bergkristall (Der Wildschütz von Tirol) ( Harald Reinl )
• 1949: Hans im Glück (Peter Hamel)
• 1949: The Walking Bell (Hubert Schonger, Gerda Otto)
• 1950: Paradise on Earth (Hubert Schonger)
• 1951/52: The Wonder Window (Gerda Otto)
• 1952: dwarf nose ( Francesco Stefani )
• 1953: Little brother and sister ( Walter Oehmichen , Hubert Schonger)
• 1953: The golden goose ( Walter Oehmichen , Hubert Schonger)
• 1953: Paradise without sin (Hubert Schonger)
• 1954: Hansel and Gretel (Walter Janssen)
• 1954: Little Red Riding Hood (Walter Janssen)
• 1955: your horoscope - your fate? (Konrad Lustig)
• 1955: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs : (Snow white) (Erich Kobler)
• 1955: Snow White and Rose Red (Erich Kobler)
• 1956: The Brownies (Erich Kobler)
• 1956: Set the table ( Jürgen von Alten )
• 1957: The Mayfly ( Peter Fleischmann )
• 1957: Jazz in the Kremlin ( Peter Schamoni )
• 1957: Moscow 1957 ( Peter Schamoni )
• 1957: Rübezahl - Lord of the Mountains (Erich Kobler)
• 1957: The Wolf and the Seven Goats ( Peter Podehl )
• 1957: Two sailors on the Alm (Peter Hamel)
• 1959: The Bremen Town Musicians (Rainer Geis)
• 1959: Hubertus Hunt (Hermann Kugelstadt)
• 1959: O these Bavarians ( Arnulf Schröder )
• 1961: Mountain game (Hubert Schonger)
• 1961: Frau Holle - The fairy tale of Goldmarie and Pechmarie ( Peter Podehl )
• 1961: Hosanna ( Peter Podehl )
• 1961: The story of a sand rose (Peter Fleischmann)
• 1961: Young Senegal (Hubert Schonger)
• 1961: White wings over the reeds (Hubert Schonger)
• 1962: Bread of the Desert (Peter Fleischmann)
• 1963: Paradise without sin (Hubert Schonger)
• 1964: The Test (Peter Fleischmann)
• 1965: Antiques (Marran Gosov)
• 1966: Executioner Tom ( Klaus Lemke )
• 1966: Power Slide (Marran Gosov)
• 1966: Sensation Alps ( Lothar Brandler )
• 1967: Tirol is laughing (Lothar Brandler)
• 1967: Autumn of the bums (Peter Fleischmann)
• 1967: Tanja - The Naked from Devil's Island (A. Hofherr)
• 1968: Not dumb (Dirk Walbrecker)
• 1968: Journey to the Happy Islands
• 1968: Extreme skiing (Jürgen Gorter Jr.)
• 1971/1972: The Blitz - Inferno on Montblanc (Lothar Brandler)

literature

• Hubert Schonger: 10 years of nature film Hubert Schonger. [1923–1933] Film directory / Berlin SW 11, Anhalter Str. 7: Nature film Hubert Schonger, 1933.
• Hubert Schonger: Camera is running…. Almanac for the 25th anniversary. Inning am Ammersee 1950.
• Robert Volkmann: History and stories - Inning with its districts of Arzla, Stegen, Buch, Bachern and Schlagenhofen. Kulturkreis Inning e. V., inning 1990.
• Volker Pade: Hubert Schonger. A filmography, in: Through beautiful Westphalia. Notes on a film by Hubert Schonger from 1929. Booklet accompanying the DVD, ed. from Westfälisches Landesmedienzentrum, Münster 2004 , pp. 23-28.

Web links

• Hubert Schonger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Hubert Schonger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hubert Schonger at filmportal.de
• Hubert Schonger in the Lexicon of International Films
• Through beautiful Westphalia (Hubert Schonger, 1929) (PDF; 256 kB) LWL media center for Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hubert Schonger: 10 Years of Nature Film Hubert Schonger [1923–1933] Filmverzeichnis / Berlin SW 11, Anhalter Str. 7: Nature Film Hubert Schonger, 1933, p. 3.
2. ^ Hubert Schonger: 10 Years of Nature Film Hubert Schonger [1923–1933] Filmverzeichnis, 1933, p. 15.
3. ↑ s. a. Helmut Korte: Mass unemployment and social misery - the film between class struggle and optimistic transfiguration - wage clerk Kremke (1930). In: Werner Faulstich, Helmut Korte (Eds.): Fischer Filmgeschichte Volume 2 1925–1944, Frankfurt / Main 1991; Pp. 130-143.
4. ^ Hubert Schonger: 10 Years of Nature Film Hubert Schonger [1923–1933] Filmverzeichnis, 1933, p. 17.
5. ^ Rolf Giesen: The History of Animated Films vdap.org ( Memento from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Enno Patalas in Cinegrafie , issue 16, 2003