Max Reichmann

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Max Reichmann (born November 29, 1884 in Strasbourg , † February 3, 1958 in San Francisco , United States ) was a German film director .

Live and act

Reichmann first worked in various film areas, including in 1921 as a manager at Ewald André Dupont's two-piece children of darkness . He made his directorial debut in Vienna in 1923 as a co-director with Die Geliebte des Morders .

In July 1923 Reichmann returned to Berlin and initially worked a. a. 1925 as assistant director for Dupont's classic film Varieté . Since then, Max Reichmann has directed several films, mostly crime novels and adventure stories, in which actors such as Paul Wegener , Jenny Jugo , Harry Liedtke , La Jana and Olga Chekhova took part. In January 1929 he founded Max Reichmann Filmproduktion GmbH . Reichmann became one of the pioneers of German sound films: he directed four sound short films, took over the direction of the sound film sequences of the originally silent film The Favorite of Schönbrunn and began working with the tenor Richard Tauber . In 1930 Reichmann achieved another big box office success with the film The Land of Smiles . The main actor and producer was Richard Tauber, production company Richard Tauber Produktions GmbH, Berlin . Composers like Paul Dessau and screenwriters like Walter Reisch worked for Max Reichmann.

Reichmann, who was of Jewish origin, disappeared from the public before the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1933 he emigrated to France and directed the 9 minutes and 20 seconds short in the same year in Paris film L'apprenti sorcier (on dt .: The Sorcerer's Apprentice) after the same Goethe - ballad with Jean Weidt in the lead role.

Reichmann left France in August 1935 and initially stayed in Havana , Cuba . In July 1937, Reichmann traveled to New York via Miami . He married there in 1938 and then moved to California . There he settled in Beverly Hills , there is no evidence of cinematic activities in the USA despite its proximity to Hollywood . Reichmann was naturalized in 1943 and died 15 years later in San Francisco.

Filmography

Director
  • 1923: The Murderer's Mistress (co-director)
  • 1925: The fight against Berlin
  • 1926: Derby
  • 1927: Manege
  • 1927: your last love affair
  • 1927: Ramper, the animal man
  • 1928: crooks love
  • 1928: Woman on fire
  • 1928: Knight of the Night
  • 1928: The photographer of the heart
  • 1929: Schönbrunn's favorite
  • 1929: forgive me (short film)
  • 1929: Sweet Yvonne (short film)
  • 1929: Dolly is fine now (short film)
  • 1929: Max Hansen: We got on well ... (short film)
  • 1930: I never believe in a woman again (also co-producer)
  • 1930: My heart belongs to you ...
  • 1930: the tempting goal
  • 1930: How do I get rich and happy?
  • 1930: the land of smiles
  • 1931: The big attraction
  • 1932: Marco, the clown ( Camp volant )
  • 1933: L'apprenti sorcier (short film)
Assistant director
  • 1922: You and the Three (EA Dupont)
  • 1925: Varieté (directed by EA Dupont)
  • 1929: Now the dolly is fine (directed by Max Hansen)
  • 1929: We got on well ... (Director Max Hansen)
Unit manager
  • 1921: Children of Darkness. 1. The Man from Naples (EA Dupont)
  • 1921: Children of Darkness. 2. Fighting Worlds (EA Dupont)

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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 450.
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 601.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...' and California Death Records. Less The film's great lexicon of people mentions November 28, 1887
  2. ↑ According to 'In life, more is taken from you than is given ...', the film's large personal lexicon calls Berlin
  3. ↑ According to 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...' and California Death Records
  4. ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 42234
  5. ↑ L'apprenti sorcier on europafilmtreasures.fr ( Memento of the original of October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europafilmtreasures.fr
  6. ^ L'apprenti sorcier in senscritique.com
  7. ↑ Source: Application for Naturalization: Declaration of Intention No. 403889, issued in New York on October 27, 1937, ancestry.com
  8. ↑ Source: Marriage Certificate No. 14213, ancestry.com.
  9. ↑ Source: German sound film ahead, in: Das Kino-Journal, No. 991, July 27, 1929, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1958
Place of death San Francisco , United States