Reinhart Steinbicker

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Reinhart Steinbicker (born September 3, 1904 in Lippe , † August 1935 in Berlin ) was a German screenwriter , assistant director and film director .

biography

Steinbicker was through a collaboration with the South Tyrolean alpinist, actor and mountain filmmaker Luis Trenker - Steinbicker edited the picture part of the patriotic-nationalist memorial book Kampf in der Berge in 1931 . The immortal monument of the alpine front - made on film by this one. Trenker engaged him in 1932 as one of his assistant directors in the pathetic Tyrolean freedom drama Der Rebell . From the summer of 1933 onwards, Steinbicker also assisted with films by other directors, including Kurt Bernhardt's science fiction classic Der Tunnel and Robert A. Stemmle's Rühmann comedies So ein Flegel and Heinz im Mond .

In the meantime, from autumn 1933 to spring 1934, Steinbicker again cooperated with Trenker when he was working on the script again in the lavish and socially critical emigrant and returnees drama The Prodigal, which was filmed in the USA (New York) and in the Alps was used as an assistant director. Steinbicker also took part in the creation of scripts for several films from those years (1933/34), including the early emigrant production Invisible Opponents , which was made in Vienna in March / April 1933, with the Jewish artists Peter Lorre and Oskar Homolka, who had fled Nazi Germany in two main roles.

1934 led Steinbicker the first and only time directing than you him in the film Love, Death and the Devil the technical aspects of film directing less experienced theater makers Heinz Hilpert turned aside. Here, too, Steinbicker was jointly responsible for the script.

Steinbicker died a little later, in August 1935, under unknown circumstances.

Filmography (as a screenwriter)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The film database www.imdb.com gives c. 1905 as an estimate for the year of birth. According to the film historian Kay Less , the given date of birth September 3, 1904 is based on a confirmation of registration in Vienna filled out by Steinbicker during his stay in Vienna on the occasion of filming in March / April 1933.
  2. ↑ http://www.choosebooks.com/displayBookDetails.do?itemId=87327199&b=1
  3. ↑ Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus: Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms 1930–1960 , p. 242, ISBN 3-442-10207-3
  4. ↑ Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus: Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms 1930–1960 , P. 90, ISBN 3-442-10207-3
  5. ↑ Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus: Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms 1930-1960 , p. 93, ISBN 3-442-10207-3
  6. ^ The ministry of illusion: Nazi cinema and its afterlife , p. 329 (excerpts available from Google Books)
  7. ↑ Invisible opponents ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 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. Entry at the Austrian Film Institute @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmarchiv.at
  8. ↑ Heinz Lunzer, Victoria Lunzer-Talos: Horváth: a writer on the trail, 2001, p. 9
  9. ↑ Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus: Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms 1930–1960 , p. 223, ISBN 3-442-10207-3
personal data
SURNAME Steinbicker, Reinhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Lip (country)
DATE OF DEATH August 1935
Place of death Berlin