Joseph Massolle

Joseph Massolle (born March 24, 1889 in Bielefeld , † April 2, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German sound engineer for film sound technology .

Berlin memorial plaque on Babelsberger Strasse 49 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Life

The trained toolmaker Massolle formed as a self-taught for engineering . From 1907 to 1918 he served in the Imperial Navy, among other things as a radio telegraph. Then he came to Berlin. Here he became a co-founder of the sound film in 1921/22 . On September 17, 1922, the inventors Joseph Benedict Engl , Hans Vogt and Joseph Massolle gave their first demonstrations using the optical sound system in the Alhambra light show on Kurfürstendamm . Massolle later went to the Ufa-Filmgesellschaft and was responsible for the sound engineering. He held this office until 1945.

tomb

He is buried in the In den Kisseln cemetery. His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin from 1994 to 2015 .

Filmography

1929: The night is ours . Director: Carl Froelich
1930: Western Front 1918 . Director: GW Pabst
1930: Barcarolle d'amour. Directed by Carl Froelich and Henry Roussell

literature

Eberhard Spiess : Massolle, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 360 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ According to the information on the tombstone, he died on April 1, 1957.

personal data
SURNAME	Massolle, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sound engineer for film sound technology
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bielefeld , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1957
Place of death	Berlin , Germany

[1] According to the information on the tombstone, he died on April 1, 1957.