Karl Machus

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Karl Machus (born December 17, 1884 in Berlin ; † May 24, 1944 there ) was a German film architect .

Life

Machus had received his artistic training as a painter at the arts and crafts school in his hometown of Berlin, then specialized in theater equipment and the abdominal field and joined the film in 1918 as a painter and employee of the production designer Kurt Richter . At Richter's side he was involved in the production of the sets for two of the best-known early Lubitsch large-scale productions ( Carmen , Madame Dubarry ).

Independent film architect since 1919, Machus initially designed dark post-war dramas from the Berlin milieu ( Schieber, Berlin W ) but also social melodramas ( The Night of Decision, The Novel of a Maid ). Often his former architect colleague Manfred Noa was his director. With the two large-scale drama adaptations Othello and Nathan the Wise , Machus again took part in two top productions in 1921/22. Then, well into the 1930s, he had to be content with commissions for average entertainment goods, which repeatedly brought him together with the director Carl Boese, who is known for his fast staging style .

From 1936 Machus designed the backdrops for dignified quality productions (literary adaptations, dramas, melodramas) for the entertainment routine Hans H. Zerlett , from 1939 he was almost exclusively responsible for the German national, pathetic 'big films' of the Nazi favorite Veit Harlan . Between the outbreak of war in 1939 and 1944, Machus and his colleague Erich Zander formed a permanent team of architects. The duo designed some of the most prestigious film structures of the time, including the decorations for the period films Bismarck , The Great King and Kolberg , which were among the largest orders that the state-controlled film industry of the Third Reich had to award during the war.

Karl Machus died before the premiere of his last, most complex work, the 'Perseverance Film' Kolberg .

Filmography

  • 1918: Carmen
  • 1919: Madame Dubarry
  • 1919: Prince Cuckoo
  • 1919: Modern daughters
  • 1919: The night of the decision
  • 1919: Blond poison
  • 1920: Berlin W
  • 1920: Twilight of the Idols
  • 1920: slide
  • 1920: Schneider Wibbel
  • 1920: The red witch
  • 1921: A maid's novel
  • 1921: The heavy boy
  • 1921: Sons of the Night
  • 1921: Between flames and floods
  • 1922: Othello
  • 1922: The will of Ive Sievers
  • 1922: Nathan the Wise
  • 1923: the legacy
  • 1923: '1812' - Countess Vandières
  • 1923: Dieter, the man under stones
  • 1924: The tragedy of the dishonored
  • 1924: two children
  • 1924: your last stupidity
  • 1925: The Iron Bride
  • 1925: O old lad glory
  • 1925: Our daily bread
  • 1926: Love's lust and suffering
  • 1926: Annemarie and her Ulan
  • 1926: The department store princess
  • 1927: The noble blood
  • 1927: Girls at risk
  • 1927: The great unknown
  • 1927: Fair of Life
  • 1927: Orient Express
  • 1927: The false prince
  • 1927: The eighteen year olds
  • 1928: Eva in silk
  • 1928: Ossi is wearing his pants
  • 1928: Lemke's blessed widow
  • 1928: Children of the street
  • 1929: Youth with makeup
  • 1929: Three days of life and death
  • 1931: The most handsome man in the state
  • 1931: The Hieflau water devils
  • 1932: Under the spell of the Eulenspiegel
  • 1932: The bladder in love
  • 1933: Maturing youth
  • 1934: I marry my wife
  • 1935: lucky guys
  • 1935: Don't forget mine
  • 1935: August the Strong
  • 1936: A passionate doctor
  • 1936: Servants ask
  • 1936: morality
  • 1937: Play on the threshing floor
  • 1937: Revolutionary wedding
  • 1937: The Katzensteg
  • 1938: The stars shine
  • 1938: Peter plays with fire
  • 1939: Robert and Bertram
  • 1939: The golden mask
  • 1939: Pedro is supposed to hang (WP: 1941)
  • 1939: Star of Rio
  • 1940: Heart furnished with modern furniture
  • 1940: Bismarck
  • 1941: The Great King (WP: 1942)
  • 1942: The golden city
  • 1943: Immensee
  • 1944: Sacrifice (WP: 1944)
  • 1945: Kolberg (premiere: 1945)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 188.

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personal data
SURNAME Machus, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1944
Place of death Berlin