Oskar Kalbus

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Oskar Kalbus (born December 9, 1890 in Berlin , † July 8, 1987 in Bad Schönborn ) was a German film historian and film producer.

Life

Oskar Kalbus studied philosophy, German and Romance studies in Berlin and Greifswald and graduated in 1914 with a doctorate in Romance studies. During his studies he became a member of the Alania Berlin choir in 1909 . In the First World War , in which he participated as a volunteer, he received the Iron Cross . After a brief episode as in-house counsel and meeting speaker for an interest group, he joined the cultural film department of Ufa, which was founded in 1918, as a scientific adviser in 1920 . In 1922 he married Maria (Maja) Sajons in Heidelberg.

After switching to Ufa's own film distribution company (1926), Kalbus rose quickly and was granted power of attorney in 1927 . In 1932/33, together with Hans Traub , he drafted plans to set up a "German Institute for Film Studies", which Traub implemented in 1936 in the form of the " Ufa teaching show ". In 1933 Kalbus became a member of the Ufa board of directors. Even with a German national mind, he tied up with the ruling National Socialists without any problems and joined the NSDAP in 1940 . On the other hand, a planned third volume of his film history “Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst” was not allowed to appear because he wanted to deal with Jewish film artists here - in the part about National Socialist film.

In the 1950s Oskar Kalbus became head of distribution and general director of the German Columbia , which he left in 1955 as a retiree.

Filmography

  • 1928: Henny Porten . Life and career of a film artist ( documentary , Germany) - director, actor, screenplay
  • 1952/53: Just don't get excited ( Harald Röbbeling , FRG) - producer (Harald Röbbeling Filmproduktion, Hamburg)
  • 1954: A girl from Paris ( Franz Seitz , FRG) - producer (Ariston-Film GmbH, Munich-Geiselgasteig)
  • 1955: Fell out of the sky ( John Brahm , FRG / USA) - producer (Trans-Rhein-Film GmbH, Wiesbaden)
  • 1955: Mozart ( Karl Hartl , Austria) - producer
  • 1956: Love That Loses Its Head ( Thomas Engel , Austria) - producer

Writings by Oskar Kalbus

  • The prose version of the old French Apollonius novel (Jourdains de Blaivies). Dissertation, Greifswald, 1914
  • with Ernst Krieger and Ralph Sterzenbach: The school and popular education cinema. A guide for the organization and technical implementation of the educational film movement in town and country. Munich: Keim & Nemnich, 1922
  • The German Educational Film in Science and Education, Berlin: Carl Heymann, 1922
  • On the development of German film art. Part 1: The silent film, Altona-Bahrenfeld (cigarette picture service) 1935
  • On the development of German film art. Part 2: The sound film, Altona-Bahrenfeld (cigarette picture service) 1935
  • Cultural film pioneers. A contribution to the history of cultural filmmaking in Germany, Karlsruhe (Neue Verlags-Gesellschaft) 1956
  • We need a film Europe. Ideas and plans. Wiesbaden: Verlag Film-Echo, 1956
  • The situation of German film, Wiesbaden 1956
  • Films of the present. Yearbook of filmmaking (1956/57 season), Heidelberg (Ewalt Skulima) 1957
  • Thoughts on the history of German film up to 1945, Munich 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 74.

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personal data
SURNAME Kalbus, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film historian and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1987
Place of death Bad Schönborn