Otto Hunte
Otto Joachim Gottlieb Hunte (born January 9, 1881 in Hamburg , † December 28, 1960 in Potsdam ) was a German film architect .
Life
He studied architecture and painting in Hamburg and worked as a painter until 1918. From 1919 he worked as a costume and set designer for Joe May's production company . He designed the costumes for the two-part series Die Spinnen (1919) and The Indian Tomb (1921) and, together with Karl Vollbrecht , Martin Jacoby-Boy and Erich Kettelhut, designed the film sets for the adventure film series Die Herrin der Welt (1919).
In the 1920s he worked with colleagues Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht, Emil Hasler and Victor Trivas . Hunte is jointly responsible for the construction of most of Fritz Lang's films in Germany. Starting from the Expressionist style , especially the light-shadow design, he found more and more room designs that were appropriate to the cinematic material. His most important work was the buildings at Metropolis (1926). He was the head of the team. With Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht he created pictures that still influence the architecture discussion today.
Like Karl Vollbrecht, Otto Hunte was involved in the production of Veit Harlans Jud Süß (1940) in addition to entertainment films during the Nazi era . After the war, he worked briefly at DEFA and retired from film work in 1947.
literature
- Alfons Maria Arns / Hans-Peter Reichmann: Otto Hunte - architect for the film. Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum 1996 (Cinematograph, No. 10), ISBN 978-3-88799-051-0 .
- Alfons Maria Arns: The Alchemist of Babelsberg. Otto Hunte, film architect. In: Otto Hunte - Architect for the Film. Frankfurt am Main 1996, pp. 8-31, ISBN 978-3-88799-051-0 .
- Alfons Maria Arns: Vanishing Point Anti-Semitism. The organization of the architectural space in Otto Huntes designs for Jud Suss (1940). In: Otto Hunte - Architect for the Film. Frankfurt am Main 1996. pp. 82-103, ISBN 978-3-88799-051-0 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1919: The mistress of the world
- 1919: The spiders
- 1920: The wandering picture
- 1921: Inge Krafft's ordeal
- 1921: The Indian tomb
- 1922: Dr. Mabuse, the player
- 1924: The Nibelungs
- 1926: Metropolis
- 1927: The love of Jeanne Ney
- 1928: spies
- 1929: Woman in the Moon
- 1930: the blue angel
- 1930: The three from the gas station
- 1931: The private secretary
- 1932: I by day and you by night
- 1934: gold
- 1934: The English marriage
- 1934: love, death and the devil
- 1935: The green domino
- 1936: Donogoo Tonka
- 1936: City of Anatol
- 1937: The man who was Sherlock Holmes
- 1937: Seven slaps in the face
- 1939: man for man
- 1939: The Song of the Desert
- 1940: Jud Suess
- 1941: … rides for Germany
- 1942: Attack on Baku
- 1943: Old heart becomes young again
- 1945: the stake
- 1946: The murderers are among us
- 1947: raid
Web links
- Otto Hunte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Hunte at filmportal.de
- Biography on film-zeit.de
- Otto Hunte Collection in the German Film Institute, Frankfurt / Main
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hunte, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunte, Otto Joachim Gottlieb (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1881 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1960 |
Place of death | Potsdam |