Otto Hunte

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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 .

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personal data
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