Paul von Woringen

Paul von Woringen (born August 27, 1859 in Rotterdam , † August 28, 1928 Poortugaal (province of Zuid-Holland)) was a film director , producer and screenwriter of early German films .

Life

The second of eight children of German parents, Ernst Wilhelm Paul von Woringen was born in Rotterdam. He began his career as artistic director at the German film company DMB Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH , an offshoot of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company . In January 1911 he became the company's general manager. He drove the production of feature films, mainly comedies and film dramas, and thus secured the company's existence in a time of rapidly developing public taste towards films with fictional plot. From 1913, von Woringen also worked as a director of his own films behind the camera. His directorial debut is probably Die Landstraße (1913) based on an original script by Paul Lindau and starring Carl Goetz as a vagabond unjustly accused of murder. From 1915 von Woringen made several films with and based on scripts by Lotte Neumann , the female star of the DMB film company. With dwindling success, he gave up his post at the DMB in 1921.

Only a few films by Paul von Woringen have survived, including the crime films Die Landstrasse and Der Rote Faden, made in 1915 .

Filmography

1912: Theodor Körner 1913: From Germany's glory days 1870/71 1913: The country road 1914: Life's antics 1915: sun and shade 1915: Tamare Castle 1915: The common thread 1915: The iron ring 1915: The darkness and its property 1915: § 14 BGB 1916: The other 1916: Ulla's way 1916: The man whom fate sent 1916: An emergency marriage 1916: You shall not judge 1916: night and morning 1916: Artur Imhoff 1916: Mirko Pasqua 1916: people who lost their way 1917: The judge 1917: The courage to be lucky 1917: The youth. The fear of the truth 1917: The violin player 1918: The daughters of Herr von Dornberg 1918: Playing with fire 1918: The marriage of Charlotte von Brakel

1918: The accountant 1918: Silence in the forest (1. An inheritance dispute / 2. An out-of-court settlement) 1918: Behind closed doors 1918: The little witch of Groß-Tornau 1918: The marked man. The lute player 1919: Shadows of the Past 1919: The Fool's Castle 1919: Hotel Medusa 1919: Pro domo, the secret of one night 1919: Sacrifice of the Heart 1919: The lie of the Pia Mahren 1919: The mystery of the unknown 1919: The lonely woman 1919: When friends become rivals 1919: Who never suffered from love 1919: mountain flowers 1919: A great box 1919: Towards happiness 1920: as fate plays out 1920: Sybill Morgan 1920: the winner 1920: The emergency marriage 1920: At night 1920: Penitent of Passion 1920: your right 1924: In the shadow of the others

Web links

• Michael Wedel: Entry on Paul von Woringen in Encyclopedia of Early Cinema , p. 682
• Paul von Woringen at filmportal.de
• Paul von Woringen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cinegraph.de/etc/ateliers/muto.html
2. ↑ http://www.postkarten-archiv.de/lotte-neumann.html
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.