Johannes Guter
Johannes Guter (born April 25, 1882 in Riga , † March 18, 1962 in Greifswald ; birth name Janis Guters or Johann Hörhammer-Guter ) was a Baltic German actor, film director and screenwriter .
Life
He attended the secondary school and the Riga Polytechnic Institute . After receiving his doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing.) Guter became an actor at the New Latvian Theater in 1904. After the suppression of the Russian Revolution in 1905 , he fled to Berlin .
When he returned in 1907, he was arrested on charges of murdering a police officer. After depositing bail on February 17, 1908, he fled to Vienna via Helsingfors and Copenhagen . Here he received a Burgtheater scholarship at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts .
He started his first engagement on September 15, 1910 at the Neue Wiener Bühne . Later he went to Frankfurt am Main , where he also worked as a director and chief manager at the New Theater there . In 1917 he moved to the Residenztheater Wiesbaden and finally to the Trianon Theater in Berlin.
There he made connections to the film scene and made his directorial debut in 1917 with the silent film Die Diamantenstiftung , in which his then partner Marija Leiko played the leading female role. Until 1919 he shot films in series around the popular private detective Stuart Webbs, played by Ernst Reicher .
In 1919 he founded his own production company, Centaurfilm . After his only self-produced film Die Frau im Käfig with Leiko and Ernst Deutsch , Guter signed a contract with Erich Pommers production company Decla in 1920 . In the further course of the 1920s, he mainly staged fantastic and adventurous subjects, but also comedies and, more rarely, melodramas such as The Tower of Silence (1925). Guter is considered to be the discoverer of the actor Willy Fritsch .
In 1920 and 1928 he stayed in his homeland in Riga, where he tried to build up a Latvian film industry. In the 1930s it was rarely used in feature films. He made more and more short and cultural films for UFA . From 1939 to 1940 he directed the newsreels Tran and Helle with Jupp Hussels and Ludwig Schmitz . He also found employment with films about the winter relief organization , air protection and firebomb fighting.
After the war he worked in the GDR, where he and his wife were awarded the Second Class Artistic Creation Prize in 1956 .
His first marriage was to the Latvian actress Mirdza Šmitchene and from May 1, 1919 to the opera singer Heidy Wilms.
Filmography
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Web links
- John Good at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Johannes Guter at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of death according to Filmportal.de. According to IMDb, CineGraph, and The Film's Big Personal Lexicon , the year of death is 1967.
- ↑ Birth name Janis Guters according to CineGraph
- ↑ Birth name Johann Hörhammer-Guter according to the film's large personal dictionary
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 1, 1956, p. 5.
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| SURNAME | Good guy, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guters, Janis; Hörhammer-Guter, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German actor, film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1962 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |