Otto Stein (cameraman)
Otto Stein (born before 1920 ; died after 1956 ) was a German cameraman , film editor , director , screenwriter and film producer . He was also known as the "film bunny" as an architect for the interior design of cinemas.
Life
Otto Stein worked as a cameraman for silent films at the beginning of the Weimar Republic . From around the mid-1920s until around the beginning of the National Socialist era , he created stills for various film screenings.
In the middle of the Second World War , the address book of the city of Hanover recorded the Ostei Film- und Lichtwerbung company for 1943 with Otto Stein as the owner of Schillerstraße 34A in Hanover .
In the early post-war period , the architect Arnold Leissler created plans for a larger movie theater under the same name on behalf of the cinema operator Heinz Bohle in place of the Posthorn-Lichtspiele cinema that was destroyed during the air raids on Hanover at Deisterstraße 66 in Hannover-Linden . Otto Stein took care of the interior.
In the context of the “ car-friendly city ”, Stein created the short documentary, Augen auf im Straßenverkehr, which was completed in 1952 as a screenwriter, director, cutter and production manager . His film Wohnung - Either way , directed by Otto Stein , was also released as a short documentary in West Germany in 1956 with Ostei-Film Produktion .
Filmography (selection)
Camera:
- 1920:
- Your Highness on the reel
- The Prince of Montecuculi
- The death caravan
- gossip
- 1922: Street jugglers
- 1922–1923: Laughing weeping
- 1923–1925: The horror of the west coast
- 1925:
- The little one from America
- I like the cart best
Still photographs:
- 1927: Always practice faithfulness and honesty
- 1930: The great longing
- 1930–1931: An hour of happiness
- 1931:
- The adventurer of Tunis
- I go out and you stay there
- The unfaithful Eckehart
- Hurray - a boy!
- 1931-1932:
- A very rich man
- Five from the jazz band
- 1932–1933: Today it depends
such as
- 1952: Open your eyes in traffic (direction, screenplay, editing and production management)
- 1956: Apartment - one way or the other (director)
Web links
- Otto Stein at filmportal.de
- Otto Stein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w o. V .: Otto Stein / director, screenplay, camera, editing, production management and cross-references on the filmportal.de page [ undated], last accessed on July 27, 2020
- ^ Klaus Weber: Posthorn-Lichtspiele / Hanover (Lower Saxony), Deisterstr. 66 on allekinos.com [ undated ], last accessed on July 27, 2020
- ↑ Address book of the city of Hanover 1943 , part 1: Heads of household, companies and commercial enterprises registered by the commercial court sorted by name , p. 406; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stein, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman, director, screenwriter and film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Hanover , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1956 |