Karl Werner Film Berlin / Cologne

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Karl Werner Film Berlin / Cologne was the name of a West German film company that had been founded by the entrepreneur Karl Werner around 1908 in Cologne . She had her production office in Cologne at Waidmarkt 13-15 and maintained a KW film atelier in Berlin-Friedrichshain at Grosse Frankfurter Strasse 105.

history

Between 1908 and 1922 the company produced a total of 277 feature films and documentaries. This included a number of audio images.

The documentaries dealt with current events of a civil and military nature, brought reports from sport and trade and showed images from distant countries. Popular hits from operettas and operas were often used for the sound images created between 1908 and 1913, for which there were gramophone recordings made by industry that only needed to be 'illustrated'.

Today the documentary pictures taken by Karl-Werner-Film in Cologne are of particular interest for the history of the city of Cologne , such as the reports from the funeral ceremonies of prominent local politicians and churchmen from 1911 and 1912.

In addition to the short comedies and social dramas, the feature films also attract attention to the crime series, which were associated with fixed hero figures, such as the multimillionaire Lincoln, the "famous detective Charlie Gross" or the detective Miss Nobody, with whom there are characters on the opposite side like “Der Berliner Messerstecher” or the criminal king Lepain vied for the public's interest.

The company employed the production designer Kurt Dürnhöfer and the cameraman Georg Paezel , and Waldemar Hecker , Louis Ralph , Alfred Werner , Willy Zeyn senior and Rudolf del Zopp worked for them as directors . In the films she produced were u. a. to see the actors Josef Coenen , Senta Eichstaedt and Louis Ralph. Werner also directed two of them.

The production company was also affiliated with a rental company.

Between 1919 and 1922 Werner called his company "KW Film Compagnie Berlin".

Filmography (selection)

Sound images

  • 1908 Dutch thanksgiving after the battle (audio)
  • 1912 Oh, how is love (sound image)
  • 1912 Baltimore Dance (sound image)
  • 1912 Biedermeier Quadrille (sound image)
  • 1912 Dorf-Jdyll (sound image)
  • 1912 Dragonerlied (sound image)
  • 1912 Fragrant [funny?] Dance (sound image)
  • 1912 I am lonely, not alone (sound image)
  • 1912 declaration (audio)
  • 1912 flute virtuoso Robert Steidl (audio)
  • 1912 Women's love and life (audio)
  • 1912 Happy wandering boys (sound image)
  • 1912 Voices of Spring (sound image)
  • 1912 bells of Saint-Malo (sound image)
  • 1912 headquarters (audio)
  • 1912 In the dark of the night (sound image)
  • 1912 Jokytanz (sound image)
  • 1912 Krinolinenterzett (audio image)
  • 1912 kiss teaching (sound image)
  • 1912 Lachecke (sound image)
  • 1912 darling, let's dance (audio)
  • 1912 Lohengrin (also: Lohengrins Abschied) (sound image)
  • 1912 The Merry Widow (also: Grisettenlied) (sound image)
  • 1912 Odalisques (sound image)
  • 1912 Musical Gigerl (sound image)
  • 1912 The Smart Shoemaker Boys (sound image)
  • 1912 student farewell (audio)
  • 1912 Tango Argentino (audio)
  • 1912 My wife quarrels every day (audio)
  • 1912 Undine (also: Undine the sea spirit) (sound image)
  • 1912 Verunlücktes Ständchen (also: Das verunlückte Ständchen) (sound image)
  • 1912 When the little feet rise (sound image)
  • 1912 Where have you been for so long? (Sound image)

Documentaries

  • 1909 journey through Italy
  • 1909 fishing in the Mediterranean
  • 1909 Gondola ride in Venice
  • 1909 The fountains of Rome [colored]
  • 1909 timber rafting in the Italian Alps
  • 1909 Italian naval maneuver
  • 1909 persecution of Jews in Russia
  • 1909 Life and goings-on in Holland
  • 1909 The Menam River in Siam
  • 1909 Ten minutes in Benares
  • 1909 Modern iron foundry
  • 1909 Wannseebad 1908 [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1909 Winter sports in the Giant Mountains [short documentary film, 1 act]
  • 1909 boxing competition [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1909 Parole edition 1909 [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1909 The French cruiser Justice [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1909 Paul tries to swim the English Channel [short
    documentary, 1 act]
  • 1911 Franco-German maneuver [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1911 The funeral of Singer [short documentary film, 1 act]
  • 1911 Parole edition 1911 [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1912 On the Braunschweig racecourse [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1912 German Sightseeing Flight [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1912 Chavez Flight over the Alps [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1912 The Grunewaldbahn [short documentary, 1 act]
  • 1912 Cardinal Fischer's funeral ceremony in Cologne
  • 1912 On the Weser [documentary film]
  • 1912 wrestling competition. I.
  • 1912 wrestling competition. II.
  • 1912 wrestling competition. III.
  • 1912 Sunday in the Krystallpalast
  • 1913 One day in Cairo
  • 1913 Riccardo Sacco, the hunger artist

Feature films

  • 1909 The doppelganger, also: From the diary of a world detective
  • 1909 The poison flower
  • 1909 The Berlin knife cutter
  • 1909 Schultze in danger
  • 1909 Captain's honor
  • 1909 Cinematographed! [Short film, 1 act, 75 m]
  • 1912 Under the German Eagle
  • 1912 The ghost night
  • 1912 criminal record!
  • 1912 The second shot
  • 1912 A fight in the dark
  • 1912 Lemke as a policeman
  • 1912 Lemke as a laundress
  • 1912 Purzel as a music enthusiast
  • 1912 The buffoon
  • 1912 Storms of Life
  • 1912 How do I get energetic

Detective film series "From the life of the multimillionaire Lincoln":

  • 1912 The Emerald (first installment in the series)
  • 1912 The Mauritius stamp (second installment in the series)
  • 1912 The Lady in Black (3rd episode of the series)
  • 1913 The Doppelganger (fourth episode of the series)
  • 1913 Lincoln as a ceiling runner (fifth part of the series)
  • 1913 Radium (VI. Episode of the series)

Crime film series "Nobody, the female detective":

  • 1913 Berlin ranks
  • 1913 The Devil's Hole
  • 1913 Sacco, the hunger artist
  • 1913 Das Glück im Winkel, also: there is space in the smallest hut
  • 1914 Coenen as a film poet
  • 1914 Who [IMDb: Wie] is onion tree?
  • 1914 And the moon laughs too
  • 1914 Lepain, the King of the Innocents - 1st part
  • 1914 Lepain, the fight with the detective John Hawks - 2nd part
  • 1914 The impostor trio (= Charlie Gross series, I)
  • 1914 The Bats of Rondshill (= Charlie Gross Series, II)
  • 1914 The gift of the Indian
  • 1914 One Night in Berlin or The Lions Are Going On
  • 1914 The rag baron
  • 1914 Master of the World / The Lord of the World
  • 1914 Eva's shirt
  • 1920 love and trumpet blowing
  • 1920 The storm-free booth
  • 1921 love back stairs

literature

  • Christa Aretz, Irene Schoor: Cologne in the film. Film history (s) of a city. Verlag Emons, Cologne 2004, 384 pages
  • Gerald Bär: The motif of the doppelganger as a split fantasy in literature and in German silent film (= international research on general and comparative literary studies , Volume 84 ISSN  0929-6999 ), Verlag Rodopi, 2005, ISBN 978-90-420-1874-7 , Length 718 pages
  • Hans-Günter Borowski: Films flickered in the Apollo as early as 1905 . In: Leverkusener Anzeiger , May 23, 2013
  • Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Wedel: Cinema of the imperial era: between tradition and modernity. Verlag Edition Text + Critique, 2002, ISBN 3-88377-695-5
  • Oskar Kalbus: On becoming German film art. Volume 2: The sound film . Cigarette picture service, Altona-Bahrensfeld 1935
  • Jürgen Kasten: The expressionist film . MAkS publications, Münster 1990
  • Film history (s) of a city . Cologne in Film (1900-1914)
  • Thorsten Schulz-Walden: When the pictures learned to walk - a piece of cinema history was rediscovered. City Archives Leichlingen 2013, leichlingen.de (PDF)
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Aretz-Schoor pp. 34–35 and 366; Cinegraph.de/ateliers : “Große Frankfurter Strasse 105 - 1911-12… Vitascope .. Große Frankfurter Strasse 106 (142)… - 1913 Karl Werner GmbH." ; During the GDR era, the street was first called Stalinallee, and from 1961 it was called Karl-Marx-Allee. Great Frankfurter Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. ↑ according to the list at GECD # 76
  3. ↑ these were early pin-point films to which the sound came from a gramophone record, cf. Wedel p. 58 f., Zglinicki p. 281 f., Kalbus p. 5-6
  4. ↑ Zglinicki, pp. 282–283, uses the examples of Franz and Henny Porten to vividly describe how this happened
  5. ↑ cf. about Cologne in the film (1900-1914)
  6. ↑ 1914 in the two-act film "Eva's Shirt", which he produced, and in 1921 in the film "Liebes-Hintertreppen".
  7. ↑ the z. B. 1913 awarded the Oskar Messter film "Christmas Joy and Sorrow", also: "Peace on Earth", cf. GECD # 37993 : "Production company: Messter (Film) Projektion, Berlin, distribution company: Werner, Karl, Berlin / Cologne No. 11 “; Distributor relationships apparently also existed with French film producers such as LUX or ECLAIR, cf. to the “Purzel” or “Lemke” (Patouillard) comedies; see also Hans-Günter Borowski: Films flickered in the Apollo as early as 1905 . In: Leverkusener Anzeiger , May 23, 2013: “The notes also reveal where the early films were obtained from: Above all from Karl Werner, a Cologne film distributor who was one of the pioneers of the flourishing industry.” And Schulz-Walden 2013 : “Boes and Born brought the films and a. at the Cologne film distributor Karl Werner. " (Pp. 2–3)
  8. ↑ to the text “We come to pray before God the righteous” cf. Old Dutch thanksgiving prayer  ; the song was also very popular in Germany. Through the personal commitment of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it became the epitome of the 'throne and altar' civil religion of the empire. It was part of the 'Big Zapfenstreich' and was often played on occasions of special importance.
  9. ↑ on youtube there is a film from 1928 that shows "Baltimore"; late testimony to an early American fashion dance in Germany?
  10. ↑ in the 1910s a popular concert piece by the British composer William Rimmer (1862–1936), to be heard here at gramofononline.hu in a contemporary wind band recording on Beka Grand Record No. 2932 from the collection of Kiss Gábor Zoltán
  11. ↑ Jockey Dance? There was one so named by the Danish composer CC Møller (1823-1893), cf. to youtube Jockeydansen, Gustav Uhlendorff og Richard Jensen, Elfeldt Films 1902-1905.
  12. ↑ that was the name of a waltz song from the operetta “Die Moderne Eva” by Jean Gilbert . 1911 on Beka Grand Record No. 13 847 from the Beka Orchestra, conductor Friedrich Kark
  13. ↑ cf. gramofononline.hu  : My dear swan. Lohengrin's Farewell (Part 1) from the opera “Lohengrin” (Richard Wagner) sung by Wilh. Grüning, royal court opera singer Berlin. Gramophone Concert Record GC-3-42454 (Matr. 3791 h), apply. 1905, from the collection of Kiss Gábor Zoltán. The song must have been very popular, there are also sound pictures of it by Oskar Messter and Alfred Duskes (with Henny and Franz Porten), both in 1908
  14. ^ Probably a reproduction of an aria from the romantic magic opera in four acts “ Undine ” by Albert Lortzing based on the story by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
  15. ↑ probably thinks "If the little feet they raise": waltz motifs from the operetta "The chaste Susanne" by Jean Gilbert of Oscar Fetrás , op 165. Hamburg. AJ Benjamin 1911
  16. ^ It is about Paul Singer (1844-1911), politician with the liberal German Progressive Party . When he was buried on February 5, 1911 in Berlin, hundreds of thousands gave him their last escort. See dhm.de
  17. ↑ Jorge Chávez Dartnell was the son of a Peruvian millionaire who immigrated to France and a pioneer in aviation who succeeded in flying over the Alps in September 1910, but who died afterwards when his Blériot monoplane crashed.
  18. ↑ to be found neither at IMDb nor at filmportal.de; it is about Anton Fischer (1840–1912), who was Archbishop of Cologne from 1902 until his death in 1912.
  19. ↑ according to GECD # 17655 a sound image. It would then have to be a reproduction of the well-known “Weserlied” by Gustav Pressel , who set the words (“Here I sat there many times with my lute ...”) by Franz von Dingelstedt in 1845 in Weimar.
  20. ↑ cf. about Cologne in Film (1900–1914)  : afterwards Karl Werner organized a “Great International Wrestling Competition” in Cologne in 1912, which he filmed and then sold in three parts to cinema owners.
  21. ↑ 'World Detective' was the title character of a series of serial novels that Theo von Blankenstein and Kurt Matull published between 1907 and 1911 at the publishing house for folk literature and art, Berlin, cf. arcor.de
  22. ↑ the film was possibly based on a real event in the history of Berlin, cf. Hugo Friedlaender : “» Jack the slicer «, who was up to mischief a number of years ago in Withshapel, a suburb of Lordon, is likely to be remembered as well as the knife stabber who in the beginning of 1909 a large number of women and Girls injured, sometimes quite considerably, by knife stabs. " (From: Interesting criminal trials of cultural and historical importance. Representation of strange criminal cases from the present and the recent past. Based on Hugo Friedländer's own experience, court reporter. Introduced by Judiciary Dr. Sello, Berlin. Volume 9. Berlin: Hermann Barsdorf Verlag or Berliner Buchversand, 1911–1921)
  23. ↑ “Sensational drama in 18 pictures”: Reproduction of a newspaper advertisement for the “Grand Bioskop Theater” from 1909, on program number 6 of which this film is located, at Zglinicki p. 310
  24. ↑ an episode from the German-Danish war in 1864, cf. GECD # 36487
  25. ↑ to be found neither at IMDb nor at filmportal.de; the film listed under this title at GECD # 23354 is from 1912, but of Italian origin.
  26. ↑ Original title: Patouillard blanchisseur  : Coproduction with a French company? See GECD # 28200. Or just rental? The company Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France shot numerous comic one-act plays with the title character Patouillard, played by the actor Paul Bertho : Patouillard fait du Sandow (1911), Patouillard champion (1912), Patouillard et Lulu (1916) and others. a., cf. IMDb
  27. ↑ this character embodied Rudi Bach in several German slapstick comedies around 1912/13, cf. GECD # 31924, according to GECD but a German-French co-production between Komet Film (Berlin) and Soc.Franc.d. Films et Cinématographie Eclair (Paris)
  28. ↑ with the Danish actor and baritone Oscar Stribold, cf. GECD # 38563 and gramophone record HIS MASTERS VOICE AL. 393, mat. No. 3380 r: Glade Jul, dejlige Jul…, aufgen. 1913/14
  29. ↑ From the third episode on, the series was only called “From the life of a multimillionaire”, without mentioning the name Lincoln.
  30. ↑ cf. Box: The Expressionist Film, p. 23 and Bär, p. 544, note 733
  31. ↑ GECD # 32335, three-act feature film with Senta Eichstaedt , Paul Heidemann and Louis Ralph , cf. to GECD # 32706 (“Riccardo Sacco, the hunger artist”, documentation, 2 files); on the historical person, the German Wilhelm Bode alias "Riccardo Sacco", cf. Katja Iken, Hungern als show , on Spiegel Online from October 5, 2011 and Justina Schreiber: The hunger artist Riccardo Sacco at the Munich Oktoberfest in 1904 - September 26, 2010. Podcast from the show “Land und Menschen” on Bayern 2 . A photograph of the hunger artist in his glass case at sideshowworld.com (accessed on February 10, 2016)
  32. ↑ according to GECD # 38309 onion tree is "a servant who embarrasses his master with all sorts of pranks"
  33. ^ "From the diary of the famous detective Charlie Gross, 1st picture", directed by Waldemar Hecker , with Theodor Loos , cf. filmportal.de
  34. ^ "From the diary of the famous detective Charlie Gross, 2nd picture", directed by Waldemar Hecker, cf. filmportal.de
  35. ↑ with Curt Bois in a child's role, cf. GECD # 23541
  36. ↑ The title goes back to a saying by Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826–1886), cf. aphorismen.de ; the subject was filmed again in silence (1925 by Richard Eichberg ) and after 1945 sounding (1954 by Helmut Weiß , with Marianne Koch ), cf. dhm.de and filmportal.de