Martin Dentler

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Martin Hermann Hans Dentler (born March 18, 1860 in Glückstadt ; † 1933 ) was a German entrepreneur, exhibitor, distributor , film producer and pioneer of early German cinema .

Life

Dentler first worked as a bookseller and then as a businessman in Hamburg before he came to Braunschweig in the spring of 1905, where he and his wife Meta in 1906 in the premises of the "Alte Polizei" on the corner of Gördelingerstraße / Neue Straße (later on Poststraße ) the city's first cinema , the “Central Theater of Living Photographs” opened. In the period that followed, Dentler quickly opened more cinemas, including the “Edisontheater” in the former “Fürstenhof” on Stobenstrasse , which he owned. As early as 1910 he owned the four cinemas “Saalbau-Lichtspiele”, “Lichtspielhaus”, “Edison Theater” and “Kinopalast” in Wendenstrasse in Braunschweig . His "Lichtspielhaus", built in 1911, was the first building in Braunschweig to be specially built as a cinema. In 1913/14, Brüning's hall building was converted into a large cinema.

From Braunschweig, Dentler built a chain of movie theaters in several major German cities, such as B. in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Munich. In 1908 he founded “Martin-Dentler-Film”, one of the first distribution companies. The company's goal was to break away from the sale of pure film programs and to rent out individual, longer films, which were heavily advertised in advance and depending on their content and the star cast. From 1911, Dentler's company produced its own films, including cultural and advertising films for local restaurants , in which sights of the area were shown. In addition, a monthly advertising brochure was published called “Martin Dentlers Filmmarkt”. The company, which had a distribution organization that branched out throughout Germany and also owned a number of cinemas, was later converted into a stock corporation. By 1912 Dentler's film distribution was probably the largest in Germany. In addition to his wife, his son Rudolf and son-in-law also worked in his “family business”. In addition, almost a hundred employees worked for him. In 1911 his annual turnover amounted to one million marks according to his own information. In 1914 he owned all the movie theaters in Braunschweig, with the exception of a single cinema, and had thus created a monopoly for himself .

On October 17, 1925, Dentler's company was taken over by UFA .

Filmography

As a producer

As a lender

In addition to Dentler's company, there were three other film distributors in Braunschweig , including the company "Carl W. Bonse", which had existed since 1912, and Paul Buchler's film distributor, which had been active since 1920, as well as the production company "Film-Pape & Co.", which operated between 1926 and 1933 Produced industrial and advertising films.

literature

  • Rudmer Canjels: Distributing Silent Film Serials: Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Routledge 2011, ISBN 978-0-203-83258-5 .
  • W. Clemens: Braunschweiger Kinogeschichte. In: The Friends of the Great Orphanage eV Braunschweig. Issue 89, Braunschweig 1981, pp. 7-13.
  • Klaus Kreimeier : The Ufa story. History of a film company. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-446-15214-8 .
  • Corinna Müller: Early German Cinematography. Formal, economic and cultural developments 1907–1912. Metzler 1994, ISBN 3-476-01256-5 .
  • Astrid Lehr, Braunschweig Film Festival: 100 years of film - 99 years of cinema in Braunschweig. Alte Waage November 5 – December 3, 1995 (= texts on cinema history. ) Braunschweig 1995, OCLC 258189015 .
  • Hartmut Nickel: movie theater. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 71 .
  • Albert Sattler: Braunschweig. City and Duchy. Festschrift for the entry into government of the young duke couple. Verlag Körner & Lauterbach, Chemnitz 1913, pp. 176-177.
  • Stefan Vockrodt, Hans Roland Nuß, Edgar Merkel: From the “living photographs” to the multiplex. Braunschweig's cinemas from 1896 to the present day. Björn Zelter Verlag, Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-931727-02-5 .
  • Michael Wedel: Dentler, Martin. In: Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Routledge, London et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-77856-5 , p. 176.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marriage Register Hamburg 2, Volume 3, No. 570.
  2. ↑ different information: 1861 in Braunschweig (Michael Wedel: Dentler, Martin. In: Richard Abel (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. P. 176.)
  3. ↑ a b Michael Wedel: Dentler, Martin. In: Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. P. 176.
  4. ↑ From the beginnings of cinema to 1945
  5. ↑ a b On the history of cinematography in Braunschweig. In: Albert Sattler: Braunschweig. City and Duchy. Festschrift for the entry into government of the young duke couple. P. 176.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927060-11-9 , p. 245.
  7. ↑ On the history of cinematography in Braunschweig. In: Albert Sattler: Braunschweig. City and Duchy. Festschrift for the entry into government of the young duke couple. P. 177.
  8. ↑ a b Early film production. “Founding fever” after the First World War
  9. ^ Cinema of contradictions - the early film around 1913.
  10. ^ Corinna Müller: Early German Cinematography. P. 40.
  11. ^ Klaus Kreimeier: The Ufa story. History of a film company. P. 151.
  12. ^ Martin Dentler GmbH (Braunschweig). Filmography.
  13. ↑ a b IMDb Martin Dentler
  14. ↑ Derailed
  15. ↑ Film rental and distribution
personal data
SURNAME Dentler, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dentler, Martin Hermann Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, exhibitor, distributor, film producer and pioneer of early German cinema
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1933