Karl Vollbrecht

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Karl Vollbrecht (born January 16, 1886 in Rügenwalde , Pomerania , † January 10, 1973 in Schladen ) was a German film architect with an outstanding career during the Weimar Republic .

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After three and a half years of training as a carpenter, Vollbrecht worked as a set designer . In 1919 he was brought to film and, together with Otto Hunte , Martin Jacoby-Boy and Erich Kettelhut , designed the structures for the eight-part adventure film The Mistress of the World for Joe May . Two years later he was also involved in May's two-part play Das Indian Tomb , which was also set in an exotic setting .

Head architect from 1923, Vollbrecht formed a permanent team of architects together with Kettelhut and Hunte (and most recently also with Emil Hasler ) until the end of the silent film era , who created his most outstanding works for several of Fritz Lang's classic films : Dr. Mabuse, the player , The Nibelungs , Metropolis , Spies , Frau im Mond and M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse .

Karl Vollbrecht was mostly responsible for the implementation of these sometimes monumental buildings based on designs by Kettelhuts and Hunte. His early sound film designs beyond these collaborations - for example for the people-reconciling miners' drama Kameradschaft and Kurt Bernhardt's futuristic material The Tunnel - showed Vollbrecht's skills. After 1933 his work fell largely into insignificance.

In 1939 Vollbrecht resumed his collaboration with Hunte and was u. a. also get involved in some propaganda films, including the infamous anti-Semitic inflammatory film Jud Suss . At the end of the war in 1945, Hunte and Vollbrecht separated again.

Karl Vollbrecht did not return to the cinema until 1950 and participated in the design of the animal film Der Tiger Akbar , Harry Piel's last production , for which Vollbrecht had worked twice in 1935 and 1936. His last drafts were mainly used to furnish various fairy tale films designed for children before he retired into private life at the age of 70.

Filmography

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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 206 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Vollbrecht, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruegenwalde
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1973
Place of death Schladen