Max Fassbender

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Max Faßbender , also Maks Fassbender (born October 8, 1868 in Berlin ; † unknown, probably between 1927 and 1932) was a German cameraman and pioneer of cinematography .

Live and act

After his photographic training, he initially worked as a photographer and current affairs operator. Before the First World War, he made contact with the feature film and found a job with the production company Continental-Kunstfilm .

The director Joe May brought him for his early, popular Stuart Webbs crime stories , a little later Faßbender advanced to the permanent cameraman of Richard Oswald's successful films until 1919 . New directors Fritz Lang ( Harakiri ), EA Dupont ( Europe poste restante ) and Gerhard Lamprecht (“ Frauenbeichte ”) secured the knowledge of the experienced recording surgeon.

In 1922 Max Faßbender was behind the camera in his most elaborate work to date, Rudolf Meinert's historical material “ Marie Antoinette ”. In October of the following year he went to Switzerland to photograph the country's most ambitious cinema during the silent film era. But “ The Origin of the Confederation ”, an epic in the theatrical passion play style financed by the US-Swiss, turned out to be an artistic and economic fiasco. Only Faßbender's camera work was praised. After his return to Berlin at the beginning of October 1924, Max Faßbender was hardly able to receive any orders; in the winter of 1925/26 he worked on a Polish production in Poznan .

Faßbender probably died before 1932.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fitz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 625.

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personal data
SURNAME Fassbender, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fassbender, Maks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1927