Karl Gerhardt (director)

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Karl Gerhardt (born November 21, 1869 in Langenlois ; † July 17, 1931 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor and director at German theater and film.

Life

At the beginning of the 20th century, Gerhardt worked as an actor and director on stages in the kuk province, for example in Bielitz , in Pressburg in the first decade and in the 1905/1906 season in Baden near Vienna , where he played the Danilo in the Merry Widow gave. After a year in Vienna (from September 1908 to October 1909), Gerhardt left for Berlin, where he played theater and, shortly before the First World War, can be proven as a director and actor at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischer Schauspielhaus. There he worked a. a. together with directing colleagues Viktor Janson and Wolfgang Neff . Immediately afterwards, before the war broke out, Karl Gerhardt made his debut as a film director. He remained active in the Berlin film industry until the end of 1916, when he returned to Vienna in December 1916. In 1917 he was forced to work by the production department of the central office of the Austria-Hungary field cinemas, and that year Gerhardt directed his first Austrian film, Der Treubruch , the life story of two brothers in Hinterbrühl . Two more works followed in 1919 for the small Viennese production company Astoria-Film, “ Die Aushilfsgattin ” and “ Der Mord in der Kohlmessergasse ”, each with Richard Waldemar in the leading role.

At the end of October 1919, Karl Gerhardt followed a call from his compatriot Joe May , who in 1916 had contributed the script to at least two of Gerhardt's works, including a Joe Deebs crime novel , and returned to Berlin to do the seventh part of the monumental there the following month Adventure eight divider Die Herrin der Welt , " The benefactress of humanity ", to stage. Gerhardt continued to work for May's production company until 1926, shooting a number of things for her. a. all four parts of the sensational adventure The Hunt for Death . Gerhardt also appeared in May's four-part melodrama Tragedy of Love . Among the stars Gerhardt was supposed to work with up to this point were May's wife Mia May , Lil Dagover , Werner Krauss , Emil Jannings and the two Italian sensational film actors Carlo Aldini and Luciano Albertini . Shortly before the end of the silent film era, Karl Gerhardt received no more orders; he had to be content with small roles in a few early sound films.

Filmography

as a director, unless otherwise stated

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less ; Baptismal register Langenlois, tom. XVI, fol. 38 ( facsimile )
  2. ↑ deaths. In: New Free Press. July 18, 1931, p. 7 , accessed June 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerhardt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director at German theater and film
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenlois
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1931
Place of death Berlin