Julian Ballenstedt

Julian Roman Ballenstedt (born October 12, 1881 in Poznan ; † April 27, 1958 there ) was a German architect and film architect for silent films .

Life

The son of an architect went through a humanistic high school before he began to study architecture. Before that, he had also got to know the construction industry from the practical side. Ballenstedt, married since 1911, worked as an architect with the construction of residential and commercial buildings, villas, factories, administrative buildings and hotels. His main area of ​​work was in southern Germany.

Based in Berlin since 1918, he made contact with the film industry for the first time in the following year. In the next five years he designed the sets for a large number of largely unimportant entertainment film productions by smaller companies. There were several collaborations with the directors Carl Boese and Franz Hofer . He left the film business in 1924 and has only worked as an architect since then. Nothing is known about his whereabouts.

Filmography

• 1919: The Squid Club
• 1919: The swamp hanne
• 1920: Fata Morgana
• 1920: ships and people
• 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg
• 1920: The giant smuggling
• 1920: The demon of Kolno
• 1920: The mortal enemy
• 1920: The Raft of the Dead
• 1921: The mistress of St. Tropez
• 1921: The story of the gray house, four parts
• 1921: The walk through hell
• 1921: Ways of Vice
• 1921: the adventurer
• 1921: On the red cliff
• 1922: The bell, part 2
• 1922: The secret of Ronay Castle
• 1923: Friedrich Schiller
• 1923: Spring awakening
• 1923: Lord Aldini's foolish bet
• 1924: Lord Reginald's derby ride
• 1924: The rise of little Lilian

literature

• Dr. Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn (ed.): Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 11 f.

Web links

• Julian Ballenstedt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Julian Ballenstedt at filmportal.de