Peter Ostermayr

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Peter Ostermayr (born July 18, 1882 in Mühldorf am Inn ; † May 7, 1967 in Munich ) was a German film pioneer and producer .

Life

He completed an apprenticeship in the portrait studio of his father Franz Xaver Ostermayr (born November 16, 1853 in Munich-Untersendling ; † January 9, 1940 in Munich-Pasing ) at Karlsplatz 6 in Munich. This was followed by an internship in the "Alfred Hirrlinger Photographic Atelier" in Stuttgart, which he left on July 1, 1904. Then he and his older brother Franz, who later called himself Franz Osten , took over the father's business in exchange for financial compensation. These two Ostermayr brothers founded the traveling cinema "Original Physograph Company" in 1907 and also made short topical and documentary films. From 1909 onwards, Peter and Franz Ostermayr's formerly father's portrait studio in Munich on Karlsplatz became more and more the first film studio in southern Germany to be “misused”.

From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. From his Münchner Lichtspielkunst GmbH the Emelka-Filmgesellschaft emerged on January 1st, 1919 , later Bavaria-Filmgesellschaft. In June 1919, he acquired the studio premises in the Munich suburb of Geiselgasteig for his company . After the interim sale of Emelka in 1923, he worked for the Thomas cartoon production. From 1934 to 1941 he was a contract producer at UFA .

In 1950 he founded his own production company, Peter-Ostermayr-Film GmbH, in Munich, where his younger brother Ottmar Ostermayr became his most important employee. During his career, Ostermayr made more than five hundred films. The focus of his work were film adaptations of the novels by Ludwig Ganghofer , for which he had acquired the sole filming rights from Ludwig Ganghofer himself for the first time in 1918 and which he repeatedly extended with the Ganghofer heirs (most recently until December 31, 1970). In 1954 he was a co-founder of the Institute for Film Law, in 1955 he founded the Deutsche Ganghofergesellschaft.

His first marriage (December 9, 1907) was to Olga Wernhard (born November 27, 1886, † April 3, 1939, both in Munich). From this marriage his son Paul Ostermayr (* May 8, 1909 in Munich; † February 25, 1976 in Taufkirchen), who became a well-known film director under the name of "Paul May", and his daughter Olga (* June 18, 1918, † September 1, 2002, both Munich). His second marriage was on July 5, 1943 with the dramaturge Elisabeth Ebert (born March 28, 1899 in Offenbach am Main; † August 27, 1964 in Munich).

Peter Ostermayr is buried in the Obermenzing Forest Cemetery in Munich.

Honors

Ostermayr was Honorary President of the Association of German Film Producers and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, then Honorary Chairman of Bavaria-Filmkunst. In 1953 he received the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany. On July 10, 1955, he was given honorary citizenship of Berchtesgaden because he made the place known throughout the German-speaking area through his Ganghofer films, and on July 3, 1959, the Bavarian Order of Merit .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Ostermayr's estate
  2. ↑ Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Supplementary volume 1. Verein für Heimatkunde des Berchtesgadener Land, Berchtesgaden 1982, ISBN 3-87490-528-4 , p. 167.
  3. ↑ a b c See Jan-Christopher Horak : Munich's First Fiction Feature: The Truth. Amsterdam 1996; P. 89
personal data
SURNAME Ostermayr, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühldorf am Inn
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1967
Place of death Munich