Karl Peter Gillmann

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Karl Peter Gillmann (born December 3, 1900 in Landau in the Palatinate , German Empire , † January 19, 1963 in Munich ) was a German athlete , silent film actor and screenwriter .

Live and act

As an athlete

The son of a manager had been active as an athlete at a young age. In 1919 he started as a track and field athlete for the Pfalz and TV Ludwigshafen clubs and initially concentrated on the high jump and long jump . In these two disciplines he took third place at the "Championships for the occupied territories" held in Ludwigshafen . In 1920 Gillmann was long jump champion of the Rhein-Main-Saar title fights. In June 1921 he jumped 6.88 m in Augsburg . Finally, Gillmann focused on the sprint and surprised the competition: On August 21, 1921, Gillmann became German champion over 110 meter hurdles in Hamburg with 16.4 seconds. At that time, the Munich resident (since 1921) Gillmann was at TSV Munich-Sendling. A short time later, Karl Peter Gillmann ended his sporting career.

As an actor and screenwriter

He tried his hand at filming, initially in Munich, but with little response. After Gillmann moved to Berlin in 1928, he also made contact with the film industry there. Gillmann was Wilhelm Dieterle's assistant director in 1929/30 and began working regularly as a screenwriter since 1935. Gillmann did not specialize in any particular genre, he supplied home films (" Waldrausch ") as well as literary adaptations (" Stützen der Gesellschaft ") and historical material (" Liselotte von der Pfalz "), several romances with music and comedies. His greatest success was in 1938 thanks to his collaboration with comedy specialist Curt Goetz on the comedy Napoleon is to blame for everything . After Goetz returned to Germany from his exile in the USA in 1946, he remembered Gillmanns and brought him in 1949 as his author and co-director for the implementation of the comedy gynecologist Dr. Praetorius . This Goetz comeback in Germany should be a huge success with the public. After that, Karl Peter Gillmann was rarely active as a screenwriter.

Filmography

as an actor

  • 1922: Devil's Symphony
  • 1924: The Race of Death
  • 1929: The silence in the forest

as a screenwriter

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 503.

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