Lupu pick

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Lupu pick

Lupu Pick (born January 2, 1886 in Iași , Romania , † March 7, 1931 in Berlin ) was an actor and film director .

Life

Pick's father was Austrian, his mother of Romanian origin. He began in 1909 as a stage actor at the Schillertheater in Altona . From 1910 he also played at the summer theater in Flensburg , where he also directed for the first time and where Edith Posca appeared in 1911 , whom he married a year later. In 1913 Pick came to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin with a performance of Die Schiffbrüchigen ( Eugène Brieux ) , where he made his breakthrough in the role of a doctor. He stayed in Berlin and worked for 6 years at the Kleiner Theater Unter den Linden as an actor, director and stage director. His greatest success was the role of Uncle Eli in Jettchen Gebert .

He played in film for the first time as early as 1910. He worked for Gerhard Lamprecht , Richard Oswald , Henrik Galeen , Fritz Lang and also in his own films. In 1917 he founded the film company Rex-Film AG. Pick was socially committed, he argued against the death penalty in his 1919 film Kill No More!

Together with the screenwriter Carl Mayer , he turned to the chamber feature film and created important representatives of this genre with Shards (1921) and Sylvester (1924). His last silent film was the psychological historical film Napoleon on St. Helena in 1929 . Pick only made one sound film , Gassenhauer (1931).

As an actor, Lupu Pick made an impressive appearance again in 1926 as a cab driver in The Last Cab in Berlin, produced by his company Rex-Film , and in 1928 as the Japanese diplomat Matsumoto in Fritz Lang's Spione .

Pick was involved in various filmmaking organizations. He served on the board of the Verband der Filmindustrielle e. V., the SPIO and the Association of German Film Directors e. V. After the establishment of the union-oriented umbrella organization of Filmmakers Germany e. V. (Dacho) he became its first chairman.

Pick's wife, actress Edith Posca , committed suicide just under four months after his death.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ movie poster SOUL BUYER of Josef Fenneker in German Cinematheque
personal data
SURNAME Pick, Lupu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Iași , Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1931
Place of death Berlin