Jules Greenbaum

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Jules Greenbaum (born January 15, 1867 in Berlin ; † November 1, 1924 there ; born Julius Wilhelm Grünbaum ) was a German film producer and pioneer of German film.

Live and act

He first lived with his wife Emma in the USA, where his first son George was born in Chicago on January 11, 1889 . In 1895 he returned to Berlin, where he became the father of his second son Max on March 3, 1896. Both sons later worked as cameramen, Max became an important cameraman for German film as Mutz Greenbaum and then as Max Greene for British film.

Jules Greenbaum opened a shop in 1897 selling foreign films. In 1899 he founded Deutsche Bioscope GmbH in order to produce himself. To do this, he brought the cameraman Georg Furkel , whom he had met in Amsterdam, to his company. The film of a spring parade in 1899 with Kaiser Wilhelm II was his first film, which was followed by numerous other documentaries. Alongside Oskar Messter , Greenbaum became the most important German film producer in the period after the turn of the century.

In Vienna Greenbaum was involved in founding the film magazine Das Kino-Journal , which appeared for the first time on September 15, 1902.

He often had launchings and naval parades recorded in Wilhelmshaven and Danzig . In 1907 reports from the German colonial areas in Africa were made. In 1908 he renamed his company Bioscope-Theater GmbH. Greenbaum also sold film equipment and opened his first cinema in 1906 at Friedrichstrasse 10 with the Vitascope light plays. In 1907 he founded Vitascope-Theater Betriebs-GmbH, which was renamed Deutsche Vitascope GmbH in 1909.

In 1910 he had his first feature film directed by Viggo Larsen with Arsène Lupine versus Sherlock Holmes . His repertoire included detective, sensational, adventure films and westerns, several times with Albert Bassermann as the leading actor. In 1913 the construction of a double studio in Weißensee began with what was then the largest copy factory in Germany.

In January 1914, Greenbaum's company merged with the film company PAGU to form Union-Vitascope. The Vitascope studio was sold to Pathé Frères in July , but after the outbreak of war it was confiscated and returned to Greenbaum. In November Greenbaum ended the collaboration with PAGU and founded Greenbaum-Film GmbH. In 1916, Greenbaum again signed a contract with Bassermann, who was involved in 17 Greenbaum productions until 1920.

In 1922 a legal dispute began between the foreign department of UFA and Greenbaum-Film GmbH, which was discontinued in 1924. Greenbaum himself was seriously ill at that time. After his death he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee . The company existed until 1932.

Productions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Jules Greenbaum, in: Das Kino-Journal. No. 745, November 8, 1924, ZDB -ID 1283794-5 , p. 10.
  2. ^ Greenbaum-Film GmbH (Berlin). In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Greenbaum film in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Greenbaum, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grünbaum, Julius Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and pioneer of German film
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1924
Place of death Berlin