HO Schulze

Hugo Otto Schulze (born August 14, 1905 in Kalkberge , Rüdersdorf municipality; † after 1977) was a German cameraman for documentaries and feature films.

Live and act

After attending secondary school, the dentist's son received training in photo chemistry from the Technical University of Berlin and gained practical experience at the UFA . For example, the twenty-year-old was one of Karl Freund's and Günther Rittau's camera assistants , who were involved in the shooting of Fritz Lang's legendary science fiction classic Metropolis in 1925/26 and who helped to create the animated film.

In the early years of sound film, Schulze supervised several documentaries and directed at least one of them. In 1936 Schulze was one of just under four dozen cameramen who shot the stadium for Leni Riefenstahl's Olympic film . At the beginning of 1937 Schulze accompanied the entertainment film pioneer Richard Eichberg to India in order to make a series of outdoor shots for him on the adventure and love film double feature The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb . Schulze was also present as a cameraman during the documentation of the attack by the German Wehrmacht on Poland in autumn 1939, entitled Baptism of Fire .

Praised for his last work as an accomplished specialist for both complex and complex outdoor shoots in distant countries, Schulze was also brought in in 1940 when the task was to make the outdoor shots on Romanian oil fields for the anti-Soviet propaganda film Attack on Baku . His last external film shoot before the end of the war in 1945 took him to Hungary in 1942 ( Carnival of Love ). After that, Hugo Otto Schulze initially only photographed short documentaries, some of which he also directed. His feature film contributions in the still young Federal Republic ( it doesn't work without Gisela, The Princess and the Swineherd ) are completely irrelevant. Most recently, from 1955 to 1958, Schulze only appeared as a director of short documentaries, after 1958 he was no longer commissioned.

Most recently, HO Schulze, who had received awards for some of his works both in Cannes and at the Venice Biennale, lived in Berlin 19.

Filmography

as a cameraman unless otherwise stated

• 1933: Extinct Krater (also direction and production)
• 1933: German song and German country
• 1936: land under clouds
• 1936: Clear ship to battle
• 1936: Olympia: Festival of the Nations, Festival of Beauty (documentary, two parts)
• 1937: Little goose really big!
• 1937: years of decision
• 1938: The tiger of Esnapur
• 1938: The Indian tomb
• 1939: When a little girl plays
• 1939: Baptism by fire
• 1942: Attack on Baku
• 1942: The heiress of the Rosenhof
• 1943: Carnival of Love
• 1943: Radio during the war
• 1943: War locomotives
• 1944: Glass (also director)
• 1950: Let there be light
• 1951: It doesn't work without Gisela
• 1952: fiery wedding
• 1952: Das Glücksschwein (also director)
• 1952: The Altenburg Cathedral
• 1953: Colorful craft
• 1953: The princess and the swineherd
• 1954: Listen to the music
• 1955: Our City (also director)
• 1956: The sounding house (also director)
• 1958: Metal of the Millennia (also director)

literature

• 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. 1571.
• Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume, p. 211

Web links

• HO Schulze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• HO Schulze at filmportal.de