Otto Tober

Otto Tober (born August 29, 1882 in Grünau near Berlin ; † August 15, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German cameraman who mainly worked in silent films .

Life

Tober trained as a portrait photographer and worked in this profession since 1898, most recently in Paris in 1910/11 . In 1911 he went to Berlin and over the next seven years learned the film trade from scratch. From 1914 to 1918 Tober was in charge of Messter 's war newsreel.

On November 9, 1918, two days before the armistice, he began working as chief cameraman for feature films. In this position, Tober photographed all of the Maxim-Film productions until 1922, including various productions by Carl Froelich . At the end of the same year he was behind the camera in GW Pabst's directorial debut Der Schatz with Froelich star Henny Porten . Then the directors Froelich and Friedrich Zelnik brought him in for the productions of their own production companies.

In 1924 Otto Tober went on an extensive film expedition to East Asia with the director Heinz Karl Heiland : the result were the two productions The White Geisha and Bushido, the Iron Law . Tober remained loyal to the feature film until the end of the silent film era, after which he concentrated again on the work of a documentarist and again made recordings for newsreels .

In the autumn of 1939 Otto Tober volunteered for the Navy as a war correspondent - and thus became the oldest newsreel cameraman in the German Reich during the Second World War. Otto Tober provided images from the English Channel and the Thames estuary , among others , but also from the battlefields in France , Norway and the Balkans .

After the war Tober worked again as a documentary cameraman for a while before he retired due to old age.

Filmography

1919: The seduced 1919: Poor Thea 1919: The Temple Robber 1919: Käthe Keller's love affairs 1919: The dancer , two parts 1919: The Rattle Stork Association 1920: The great light 1920: The Karamasoff brothers 1920: The woman in the doctor's hat 1920: people of today 1920: Moj 1920: A great man's love 1921: The vow 1921: Hapura, the dead city 1921: Philipp Morris's madness 1922: The juggler of Paris 1922: Lyda Ssanin 1923: Friedrich Schiller 1923: The treasure

1923: Daisy 1923: The weather warden 1923: Katyusha Maslowa 1923: The sailor Perugino 1924: Horrido 1925: Bushido, the iron law 1925: The man in the saddle 1926: The white geisha 1926: Fedora 1927: The nephew from America 1927: The house on Krögel 1927: Autumn on the Rhine 1928: The song my mother sang 1929: Sin and Morals 1933: Two mend each other (short film) 1940: Battle for Norway - Campaign 1940 (propaganda documentary film) 1950: Herring fishing on the high seas (short documentary) 1950: Grooved at Sea - Salted at Sea (medium-length documentary)

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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 689.

Web links

• Otto Tober at filmportal.de
• Otto Tober in the Internet Movie Database (English)