Otto Erdmann (film architect)
Otto Erdmann (born December 17, 1898 in Berlin ; † January 23, 1965 there ) was a German film architect with a creative period spanning almost four decades.
Live and act
Erdmann first studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin before making his film debut in 1921 as an architectural assistant under his famous colleague Paul Leni .
Two years later, Erdmann began his work as chief architect at the side of Hans Sohnle , with whom he worked as a team for the next 15 years. During this time, the Sohnle / Erdmann team designed a wealth of film-historically not too significant - exception: GW Pabst's Die joudlose Gasse - cinema productions. It wasn't until 1938 that the two separated, and Erdmann went his own way. By the end of the war, he designed the buildings for quite different, mostly less ambitious entertainment films. Only his decorations for Helmut Käutner's highly acclaimed Maupassant adaptation Romanze in Moll , which brought the world of the Parisian bourgeoisie and its salons of the Belle Epoque to the canvas, stand out artistically.
In the early phase of World War II , Erdmann created the decorations for two anti-British Nazi propaganda strips by Max W. Kimmich ( Der Fuchs von Glenarvon , Mein Leben für Irland ), a few years after the end of the war for DEFA, but also the film structures for several again blatantly procommunist propaganda films. In addition, he also outfitted the well-respected DEFA productions Ehe im Schatten , and Der Biberpelz as well as the film adaptation of the opera The funny women of Windsor .
After creating late medieval accessories in the artistically elaborate and politically strongly tendentious DEFA portrait Thomas Müntzer about the farmer's leader of the same name, Erdmann went to the West in 1956, where he limited his craftsmanship and creative skills to second-rate productions - war films, crime thrillers and melodramas had to.
Filmography
- 1923: The weather warden
- 1924: Horrido
- 1924: mother and child
- 1924: Prater
- 1924: The woman in the fire
- 1924: The golden calf
- 1925: The joyless alley
- 1925: Shadow of the cosmopolitan city
- 1925: The great duchess
- 1925: The poacher
- 1926: The third squadron
- 1926: The marriage inn
- 1926: Hello Caesar!
- 1927: The leap into happiness
- 1927: The white slave
- 1927: The Rio women's refuge
- 1927: The Sand Countess
- 1928: going astray
- 1928: The lady and her chauffeur
- 1928: the torture of love
- 1928: Women robbery in Morocco
- 1928: The secret courier
- 1928: The Tsar's adjutant
- 1929: mascots
- 1929: Sensation in the winter garden
- 1929: The country without women
- 1930: mandrake
- 1930: Only on the Rhine
- 1930: The great longing
- 1931: The way to Rio
- 1931: King-Fu's yellow house
- 1931: The disgust
- 1931: My wife, the impostor
- 1931: Ehe mbH
- 1932: The great Bomberg
- 1932: Van Geldern criminal case
- 1932: Scampolo, a street kid
- 1932: summiteer
- 1933: Madame does not want children
- 1933: A certain Mr. Gran
- 1933: Inge and the millions
- 1933: Hans Westmar
- 1934: The black whale
- 1934: your greatest success
- 1934: My life for Maria Isabell
- 1935: Regine
- 1935: One too many on board
- 1935: The multiplication table of love
- 1935: The higher order
- 1936: practical jokes
- 1936: escapade
- 1936: A woman of no importance
- 1936: Fridericus
- 1937: Filoda hostel
- 1937: The great adventure
- 1937: As once in May
- 1938: The Impossible Mr. Pitt
- 1938: A woman comes to the tropics
- 1939: The voice from the ether
- 1939: The Florentine hat
- 1939: Carnival
- 1940: The Glenarvon Fox
- 1940: My Life for Ireland
- 1941: Always only you
- 1941: The other me
- 1941: A gust of wind
- 1942: The great shadow
- 1942: Symphony of a Life
- 1942: Romance in a minor key
- 1943: Philharmonic
- 1943: I dreamed of you
- 1944: The concert
- 1944: The small court concert
- 1944: Operetta sounds
- 1944: The bat
- 1946: Somewhere in Berlin
- 1946: No place for love
- 1947: Marriage in the shadows
- 1947: The strange adventures of Mr. Fridolin B.
- 1948: Don't dream, Annette
- 1949: The beaver fur
- 1950: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 1951: novel of a young marriage
- 1951: the fate of women
- 1952: The Troublemakers
- 1953: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class
- 1955: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
- 1955: Thomas Müntzer
- 1956: My father, the actor
- 1956: Stresemann
- 1959: Decoy of the night
- 1959: Tomorrow you will cry for me
- 1959: Black Chapel secret operation
- 1959: Penal Battalion 999
- 1960: Brandenburg division
- 1961: The devil played balalaika
- 1961: In the steel network of Dr. Mabuse
- 1961: In camera
- 1961: Goodbye
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 Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 571.
Web links
- Otto Erdmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Erdmann on defa.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Erdmann, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1898 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |
DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1965 |
Place of death | Berlin |