Peter Rochelsberg

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Peter Rochelsberg (born May 23, 1881 in Cologne ; † in the 20th century ) was a German painter , set designer and film architect for German silent films in the 1920s.

Life

Born in Cologne, he worked as a theater painter after attending primary school. In 1918 Rochelsberg joined the film industry in Munich and, often alongside his colleague Otto Voelcker , produced a plethora of films, especially in the 1920s, multiple secondary productions by directors Carl Boese , Géza von Bolváry , Jaap Speyer and Manfred Noa , but also Paul Wegener's lavish production of Living Buddhas . Other, ambitious large-scale projects by Rochelsberg include Noa's praised Nathan the Wise adaptation and, immediately afterwards, the two-part Helena film by the same director in a Bavaria production .

Since 1927 Peter Rochelsberg also worked at the workshops for theater art. Towards the end of the silent film era, in 1929/30, Peter Rochelsberg also designed the decorations for a number of Heimatfilms by Franz Seitz seniors and Hanns Beck-Gadens . Shortly before that, Rochelsberg had been responsible for setting the scene for Karl Valentin's first full-length feature film , Der Sonderling . Rochelsberg was hardly able to get any more commissions for sound films, only one short film work from 1936 is documented. After that, his track is lost.

Filmography

  • 1920: The creepy Chinese
  • 1922: Marcco, the wrestler of the Mikado
  • 1922: Nathan the Wise (equipment only)
  • 1923: Helena , two parts
  • 1924: Reluctant impostor
  • 1924: slaves of love
  • 1925: The Royal Grenadiers
  • 1925: women who are not allowed to love
  • 1925: The love of the Bajadere
  • 1926: Miss Mama
  • 1926: The Princess of the Riviera
  • 1926: The German mother's heart
  • 1927: hotel rats
  • 1927: The Queen of Varietés
  • 1929: The eccentric
  • 1929: Wildschütz Jennerwein
  • 1930: The master carver of Oberammergau
  • 1930: The hunter of the crack
  • 1930: his last edelweiss
  • 1936: Music for two (short film)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Rochelsberg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 20th century