Max Grix

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Max Grix , in England: Max Louis F. Grix (born April 23, 1903 in Leipzig , † spring 1973 in Dartford , Kent , United Kingdom ) was a German cameraman for silent films .

Life

One year after the end of the First World War, Grix had completed his school education (secondary school) and started his professional career as an apprentice in the export business of a friend of his father's. Under Mutz Greenbaum he learned the basics of photography and after a short apprenticeship, at the age of less than 20, was able to get his first camera job (at the side of Ludwig Lippert).

By the end of silent films, Grix was a sought-after cameraman for B-productions; He photographed adventure fabrics several times with body-hugging, foreign action stars such as Bartolomeo Pagano (in “ Maciste ”) and Eddie Polo . Towards the end of the 1920s there was also a series of cheerful comedies that were meaningless in terms of film history. Excursions into the socially relevant genre of moral and social criticism films ( The Adolescents , The Moral Judge § 218 ) remained exceptions. His last feature film camera work , The Road to Death on the Bernina , was also the last silent feature film in German cinema history.

Since his still photography on Panic in Chicago (1931) , Grix has not been used in talkies . Instead, he last tried himself as a writer and theater agent. In 1939 he made his last contribution to cinematography, directing the short film documentary Munich Oktoberfest .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Grix was drafted, until August 1944 he served in the 2nd interpreting company of WW III. After the war, Grix briefly relocated his activities to the stage. On August 30, 1946, "Das Kleine Operettenhaus" opened under his direction with the play Scandal in the Clouds , based on a literary model by Grix and Richard Stauch.

In September 1948, Max Grix emigrated to England with his wife Muriel Alice, who was born in the former British colony of India , and settled in London . The couple later moved to nearby Kent, where they both moved into retirement. Grix, a British citizen since February 20, 1956, died in the county of Kent in the second quarter of 1973; his wife survived him by five years. Max Grix never returned behind the camera in England.

Filmography

  • 1923: Maciste and the Chinese chest
  • 1923: The tiger of the Farrini circus
  • 1924: The love letters of the Baroness von S ...
  • 1924: The woman in the fire
  • 1925: Lord, set us free!
  • 1926: the owl
  • 1926: On the Weser
  • 1926: Stranded Menschen (also screenplay)
  • 1927: The secret safe
  • 1927: weekend bride
  • 1928: Eddy Polo with horse and lasso
  • 1928: The young lady from Argentina
  • 1928: The Hannerl vom Rolandsbogen
  • 1928: Kaczmarek
  • 1928: The gentleman from the tax office
  • 1929: Revenge for Eddy
  • 1929: The Gypsy Primate
  • 1929: The moral judge § 218
  • 1929: Three make their fortune
  • 1929: The adolescents
  • 1929: sins of youth
  • 1929: special registration
  • 1931: The death road on the Bernina
  • 1939: Munich Oktoberfest (documentary, director)

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Verlag der Lichtbildbühne (Gebr. Wolffsohn), Berlin 1926, p. 67.
  • Alfred Krautz (ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Volume 4: Germany (from the beginnings to 1945). International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Saur, Munich / New York NY / London / Paris 1984, ISBN 3-598-21434-0 , p. 123 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH &, 1996, ISBN 3-503-03736-5 , p. 480, ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Grix, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grix, Max Louis F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman for silent films
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1973
Place of death Dartford , Kent , United Kingdom