Ludwig Schaschek
Ludwig Schaschek (born August 9, 1888 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † January 28, 1948 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian cameraman .
Life
After training in photography in Vienna, he went to Paris in 1911, where he worked as a cameraman for the leading French film companies Pathé Frères and Gaumont . Before the outbreak of the First World War , however, he went back to Austria to continue his work here. In 1913, for example, he filmed King Menelaus in the cinema , an experimental film (“Kinoplastikon” principle), which wanted to involve the film audience in the film plot with the help of actors who were actually present.
During the war, Schaschek mainly worked for the kuk war press quarter , film section, which was headed by the Austrian film producer Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky . In 1919 Schaschek returned to feature films and over the next ten years became one of Austria's busiest cameramen. With the dawn of the sound film age, he turned away from film and went back to his learned job as a still photographer, around 1935 for the film operetta Im Weißen Rößl .
Filmography (selection)
- 1913: King Menelaus in the cinema
- 1914: The ideal film production (documentary short film)
- 1916: The Nagger
- 1917: A dead man's letter
- 1919: the idiot
- 1920: The way of death on the Piz Palü
- 1922: The Hell of Barballo
- 1924: The daughter of Larsac's wife
- 1926: The Rosenkavalier
- 1929: The white night
literature
- Kay Less : The large personal lexicon of film , Volume 6. Berlin 2001
Web links
- Ludwig Schaschek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaschek, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1948 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |