Julius Sternheim (film producer)

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Julius Sternheim , pseudonym Ernst J. Heim and Ulli Stheim ( June 12, 1881 in Hanover - probably 1941) was a German screenwriter , film producer and production manager .

Life

Little is known about Sternheim, which has been almost completely forgotten. He was an employee of the Decla-Filmgesellschaft, which was initially the largest German film company alongside UFA . After UFA took over Decla-Bioskop in 1922, he was its press chief.

family

His older brother was the playwright Carl Sternheim . He also had the younger brother Felix (1882–1946) and the three sisters Maria (1879–1922), Gertrude Jeanette Jeaffreson, née. Sternheim (1880–1958) and Edith Lea Bing, b. Sternheim (1883-1957). His father Carl Jakob Sternheim (1852–1918) was like his grandfather Julius Carl Sternheim (1820–1877) a banker, stockbroker and owner of the Hannoversche Tageblatt . His uncle was the Hanoverian journalist and later director of the Berlin Belle Alliance Theater , Hermann Sternheim . No reliable data is currently available about Julius Sternheim's wife Bella or their son Walter. The specific date of death and the place of death of Julius Sternheim are also currently unknown.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1917: The good part - screenplay
  • 1918: The Mother's Song - screenplay
  • 1918: The Enchanted Castle - production, screenplay
  • 1918: Harry learns to shudder - screenplay
  • 1918: Harry Becomes a Millionaire - screenplay
  • 1919: The path that leads to damnation: 1. The fate of Aenne Wolter - screenplay
  • 1919: The Path That Leads to Damnation, Part 2. Hyenas of Lust - screenplay
  • 1919: The blonde Loo - screenplay
  • 1920: Sieger Tod - screenplay
  • 1921: The Hunt for Truth - screenplay
  • 1921: The Rats - screenplay
  • 1921: Violet - screenplay
  • 1924: Der Klabautermann - screenplay, producer
  • 1926: The Orphan of Lowood - producer
  • 1928: The fates of girls - production management
  • 1929: Jenny's stroll through the men - production management
  • 1929: Phantoms of Happiness - production management

Fonts

  • The day book (in it: The film author - yesterday and tomorrow ), with an attempt to advertise screenplay authors, September 11, 1920

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich von Zglinicki : Der Weg des Films , Berlin 1956, p. 403
  2. ^ Klaus Kreimeier: The Ufa story. A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945 . University of California Press, 1999 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Hugo Thielen : sternheim, (1) Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 349.
  4. ↑ Mirja Plischke: Carl Sternheim an Expressionist? ( Full text in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Hans Bach: The way that leads to damnation. The fate of the Aenne Wolter. Novel . Based on the film of the same name by Julius Sternheim, Buch-Film-Verlag, Berlin 1920
  6. ↑ Hans Bach: Hyenas of lust. Novel . Based on the film of the same name by Julius Sternheim, Buch-Film-Verlag, Berlin 1920
personal data
SURNAME Sternheim, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Ernst J. (pseudonym); Stheim, Ulli (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, film producer and production manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1941