Ludwig Lippert

Ludwig Lippert , actually Ludvig Lippert (born August 4, 1878 in Denmark ; † 1939 there ) was a Danish photographer , cameraman and director for domestic and German silent films of the 1920s.

Life

Lippert began training as a photographer shortly before the turn of the century and was hired as a film reporter by Nordisk Film Kompagni in 1906 . In this capacity, Lippert made short documentaries in Africa and Asia in 1908 as a cameraman and occasionally as a director in 1908/09. Immediately afterwards, in 1909, he began working as a film cameraman and took photos a. a. several early works with Viggo Larsen .

Shortly after the end of the First World War , Lippert joined the general exodus of Danish filmmakers in the direction of Berlin. In the 1920s he was a sought-after image designer for some very ambitious entertainment films and photographed top stars such as Henny Porten , Asta Nielsen and Mia May for more important films, often in collaboration with other cameramen .

In the second half of the 1920s, Ludwig Lippert stood behind the camera several times in Reinhold Schünzel's early productions . After his last production, resulting in winter 1928/29 Napoleon -Drama Napoleon at Saint Helena , Lippert was also the Schünzel film column X committed, but in May 1929 after only two days of filming by the colleague Willy Goldberger replaced and Opening credits not mentioned. As a result, Lippert returned to his homeland Denmark during the period of upheaval from silent to sound films, where he died ten years later. As a film cameraman, he would never go back to work.

Filmography

as a feature film cameraman, unless otherwise stated

• 1908: Ancient Egypt (Oldtidens Æggypt) (short documentary, director)
• 1909: Life in North Siam (Livet i North Siam) (short documentary)
• 1909: Folkeliv i Sudan (short documentary, director)
• 1909: Kongen af ​​Siams Regeringsjubilæum (director and camera)
• 1909: Bjørnejagt in Rusland
• 1913: Katastrofen i Dokken
• 1914: En sømandsbrud
• 1915: Enhver
• 1919: Prometheus i Laenken, I + II
• 1923: Maciste and the Chinese chest
• 1923: Everything for money
• 1923: INRI
• 1924: The love letters of the Baroness von S ...
• 1925: The red mouse
• 1926: The eleven Schill officers
• 1926: parquet armchair 47
• 1926: At home, there’s a reunion!
• 1926: Hello Caesar!
• 1927: Vice of humanity
• 1927: Gustav Mond… You walk so quietly
• 1928: hands up! Here Eddy Polo
• 1928: The tied Polo
• 1928: Don Juan in the girls' school
• 1928: From a bachelor's diary
• 1929: Napoleon on St. Helena

literature

• International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 5 Denmark-Finland, Norway-Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984). Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1986, p. 94

Web links

• Ludwig Lippert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ludwig Lippert at filmportal.de
• Ludwig Lippert at The German Early Cinema Database