Karl Görge
Karl Görge , also Karl Görge-Prochaska (born October 29, 1872 in Karolinenthal , Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † May 20, 1933 ) was a German painter , film architect and interior designer .
Life
Görge attended German and Bohemian elementary schools before moving to the Rudolfinum in Prague . At the Deutsches Landestheater he was trained as a theater painter under Angelo Neumann . Soon after, he began to paint stage sets and perform as an actor in small roles. Görge worked as stage manager in the theaters of Wiener Neustadt and Bistritz . In 1890 he arrived in Berlin . There he began to paint stage sets at the Royal Opera House. Later Karl Görge became a sought-after set designer for the leading stages in Berlin and, as a set designer, also designed a number of Max Reinhardt's productions , including Salome and A Midsummer Night's Dream . Guest appearances again took him to Bohemia , England and the United States .
With film since 1919, Karl Görge was a very busy film architect throughout the 1920s. The man from Prague designed his most famous sets for leading productions by Paul Leni and Karl Grune . Towards the end of the same decade, he also created the decorations for some sensational films with Eddie Polo . With the dawn of the sound film age, Görge left the industry again. Karl Görge also worked as an interior designer and designed the rooms and conversions of theaters and restaurants.
Filmography
- 1921: The Genoa conspiracy
- 1921: The night without tomorrow
- 1921: Man overboard
- 1921: The hunt for truth
- 1921: back stairs
- 1922: The Count of Charolais
- 1923: The street
- 1924: comedians
- 1924: Arabella, the novel of a horse
- 1925: The city of temptation
- 1925: jealousy
- 1925: The untouched woman
- 1926: The Schellenberg brothers
- 1926: Escape to the circus
- 1926: The midshipman
- 1926: The girl without a home
- 1927: The beloved
- 1927: The burning ship
- 1928: Eddy Polo in the wasp's nest
- 1928: Eddy Polo tied up
- 1928: Is Eddy Polo Guilty?
- 1929: Trust of the thieves
literature
- Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 65 f.
Web links
- Karl Görge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karl Görge at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ other sources name May 19th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Görge, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Görge-Prochaska, Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, film architect and interior designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karolinenthal , Prague , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1933 |