Josef Coböken

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Josef Coböken , also Horst Emscher (* May 22, 1882 as Joseph Heinrich Friedrich Coböken in Dortmund , † probably between 1942 and 1945 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , screenwriter , film producer and film company manager.

Life

Coböken attended the grammar school and studied for his degree at the beginning of the 20th century economics . Then, in the first decade of the 20th century, he switched to the newspaper industry and initially worked as a journalist, later also as editor-in-chief (for "Deutsche Nachrichten") and as publishing director. By Karl May's widow Klara May Coböken was commissioned after the death of the author (1912) so that, to take care of the exploitation rights of his literary estate.

According to his own information, Josef Coböken claims to have joined the film industry as early as 1912. In the middle of the First World War he began to write scripts for the first time under the pseudonym Horst Emscher. The Dortmund native soon became a dramaturge. In the following years he moved to the administrative level of the German film industry. According to his own information, Coböken worked as the foreign director of the UFA and was temporarily also general director of Deulig . In April 1923 he left Deulig Film GmbH as managing director and founded his own production company Cob-Film GmbH (1923–1930). For the specially founded Bismarck-Film, Coböken personally produced the ambitious first part of a two-part Bismarck film in 1925, but received little praise from the critics .

Little is currently known about Josef Coböken's later life. He was a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture .

Filmography

  • 1915: Love and Alcohol (screenplay and direction)
  • 1915: The Mummy's Secret (screenplay)
  • 1916: Countess Hella (screenplay)
  • 1916: The Falconer from Falkenhof (Director)
  • 1921: The midnight supper (screenplay)
  • 1924: The development of man. From conception to birth (documentary, direction and production)
  • 1925: Bismarck, 1st part (production)
  • 1927: The sewing machine (short documentary, production)
  • 1927: Luther - A Film of the German Reformation (Production)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: marriage certificate no. 347 of August 3, 1903, registry office Königsberg / Prussia, Landesarchiv Berlin.
  2. ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 30154
  3. ↑ File No. R 9361-V / 119412, Federal Archives Berlin-Lichterfelde

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 33
  • Hans-Dieter Steinmetz : An editor in need. First approach to Josef Coböken . In: Karl-May-Haus Information Number 27, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Coböken, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emscher, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, screenwriter, film producer and film company manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: between 1942 and 1945
Place of death unsure: Berlin