Kowo
The Kowo (derived from the name of Carl Heinz Wolff ) was an early German "society for film production" in Berlin , which produced from the 1910s. The director and founder of Kowo was Carl Heinz Wolff, who occasionally worked as a director, screenwriter and actor in his productions.
history
Silent films by society are primarily known. The Kowo feature film An Eventful Night was made as early as 1913 . The well-known silent films also include a number of early Sherlock Holmes film adaptations, some with Hugo Flink in the title role, which were made between 1917 and 1919.
Conrad Veidt starred in the film Die Mexikanerin from 1919 and in the film Belt of Basthi Margarete Burg . One of the stars of Kowo in 1919/20 was the silent film actress Lya Ley .
The KOWO was until the 1930s, later under the name of Kowo -schicht AG (including the Lord of the Night (1927)) and Kowo-Tonfilm GmbH (including Ms. Lehmanns Töchter , Husarenliebe , both from 1932 and Aunt Gusti from 1934 ) operating, involved in film productions.
Productions (selection)
This list was based on the information from The German Early Cinema Database
| Kovo number |
title | year | length | censorship | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Household school | 1913 | 888 meters, 3 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42217) | - |
| 3381 (?) | The earth current motor | 1917 | - | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 40838) Police, Munich: Must not be advertised as a detective film (No. 25242, 25243, 25244, 25245) Reich film censorship , Munich: Youth ban (No. 667, August 12, 1921) |
Alternative title: The Mysterious Hat Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. I. |
| 5 | A tricky story | 1917 | 491 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 40767) | World premiere: August 1917, Tauentzienpalast |
| - | The Habelmann family | 1917 | 467 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41271) | - |
| - | Lawyer Anna | 1917 | 607 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41047) | - |
| 27 | Senta as a night watchman | 1918 | 560 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42193) | - |
| 63 | XYZ | 1918 | 1406 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41736) Police, Munich: Must not be advertised as a detective film (No. 27448, 27449, 27450, 27451, 27452) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. IV |
| 64 | Proppen and potato | 1918 | 653 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41807) | - |
| 65 | Brockhaus, volume thirteen | 1918 | 1320 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41953) Police, Munich: Must not be advertised as a detective film (No. 28627, 28628, 28629, 28630) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. V |
| 66 | Micke and Müke | 1918 | 608 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42052) | - |
| 67 | What he saw in the mirror | 1918 | 1263 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42181) Police, Munich: Must not be advertised as a detective film (No. 28631, 28632, 28633, 28634) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. VI [According to D: I] |
| 69 | The fate of Renate Jongk | 1918 | 1345 meters, 4 acts 1,395 meters, 4 acts 1,315 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Forbidden for the duration of the war (No. 42226) Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42226) Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 4952, January 7, 1922) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. VIII [According to D: III] |
| 76 | John Barrens and his mistress | 1919 | 1462 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43177) | - |
| 72 | Senta as a cab driver | 1918 | 435 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42404) | - |
| 73 | Aunt Minchen's adventure | 1918 | 629 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42467) | - |
| 74 | The married bachelor | 1918 | 952 meters, 3 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42456, October 9, 1918) | 61 subtitles |
| - | He has to go to the country | 1918 | 626 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42526) | - |
| - | The poison seal | 1918 | 1219 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42384) | Sherlock Holmes series. VII [According to D: II] |
| - | The goldfish from the Secret Annex | 1918 | 557 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41577) | - |
| 77 | Lo's first masked ball | 1919 | 767 meters, 3 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43179) | - |
| 79 | The universal cure | 1918 | 765 meters, 3 acts 798 meters, 3 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42644) Reich film censorship, Munich: Youth ban (No. 691, August 30, 1921) |
- |
| 84 | Cupid Venus poste restante | 1919 | 857 meters, 3 acts 804 meters, 3 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42866) Reich film censorship, Munich: Youth ban (No. 690, August 30, 1921) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [17, 1. – 15. October 1920] |
- |
| 84 | Raffles | 1919 | 1074, file | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42749) | Alternative title: Twenty thousand marks reward |
| 85 | Senta as a timpani | 1919 | 537 meters, 2 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42878) | - |
| 86 | The double rendezvous | 1919 | 720 meters, 3 acts 665 meters, 664 meters (after cut), 3 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43400) Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 2667, August 15, 1921) |
- |
| 87 | The Enigmatic Sphinx | 1919 | 1312 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43256) | - |
| 88 | To the First Public Prosecutor | 1919 | 857 meters, 3 acts 804 meters, 3 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42769) Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 4054, August 18, 1921) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [8, 1. – 15. September 1920] |
Alternative title: To the Lord First Public Prosecutor Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. X |
| 93 | Real pearls | 1919 | 1030 meters, 4 acts 1007 meters, 4 acts 976 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43316) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [6, 1. – 15. September 1920] Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 2653, August 13, 1921) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. XI |
| 107 | The daughter of Madame Dubussier | 1919 | 1246 meters, 4 acts 1211 meters, 4 acts [According to ZLB] 1623 meters, 1614 meters (after cut), 5 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43577) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [29, 1. – 15. December 1920] Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 1410, February 25, 1921) |
First performance: November 1919 |
| 108 | The murder at the Splendid Hotel | 1919 | 1258 meters, 4 acts 1119 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43589) Reich film censorship, Munich: Youth ban (No. 542, June 20, 1921) |
- |
| 110 | The bet | 1919 | 1125 meters, 4 acts 1063 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43629) Reich film censorship, Munich: Youth ban (No. 543, June 20, 1921) |
- |
| 113 | Mamsell not good | 1919 | 464 meters, 3 acts 442 meters, 3 acts [According to ZLB] 435 meters, 3 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42932) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [11, 15. – 30. September 1920] Reich film censorship, Munich: Youth ban (No. 702, February 8, 1921) |
- |
| 133 | The cassette | 1917 | 1323 meters, 4 acts 1214 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41070) Police, Munich: Must not be announced as a detective film (No. 25810,25811,25812,25813) Reichsfilmzensur, Munich: Youth ban (No. 763, October 12, 1921) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. II |
| 312 | The snake ring | 1918 | 1135 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 41489) Police, Munich: Must not be advertised as a detective film (No. 26695, 26696, 26697, 26698) |
Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Series. III |
| - | The cardinal's box | 1919 | 1327 meters, 4 acts 1276 meters, 4 acts 1205 meters, 4 acts |
Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 42694) State censorship Bavaria 1920 [10, 15. – 30. September 1920] Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 4053, October 25, 1921) |
Alternative title: Die Dose des Cardinals Series title: Sherlock Holmes series. IX |
| - | The hostile neighbors | 1919 | 610 yards, 3 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43444) | - |
| - | The belt of the Basthi | 1919 | 200 meters, 4 acts | Police, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 43307) | Alternative title: The Belt of Vasthi, Premiere: August 1919, Astoria, Leipzig |
| - | The Mexican | 1919 | 5 acts | - | The first negative burned on February 7, 1919. |
| - | Twentieth Century Slaves | 1920 | 1833 meters, 5 acts | Reich film censorship, Berlin: Youth ban (No. 11, July 9, 1920) | Alternative title: Der Gefangene 105 subtitles |
Web links
- Kowo on filmportal.de
- Kowo Society for film production in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kowo-Tonfilm GmbH in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kowo -schicht AG in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Remarks
- ↑ The list is sorted by the Kowo production number, then by year. The exception is the film Der Erdstrommotor, the production number appears to be incorrect in the context of the other information, but cannot be excluded, so it is cited here until further new findings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.cyranos.ch Portrait of the actor Hugo Flink (accessed on April 10, 2009.)
- ↑ www.kinotv.com Conrad Veidt (Retrieved April 10, 2009.)
- ↑ www.kinotv.eu Margarete Burg (Retrieved April 10, 2009.)
- ↑ Lya Ley: How did I get into filming? ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: "The woman in the film". Verlag Altheer & Co., Zurich 1919, pp. 17-20.
- ↑ A German Comedy ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: New York Times, May 4, 1934. (Retrieved April 10, 2009)
- ^ German Early Cinema Database of the University of Cologne. Retrieved September 11, 2013
