Robert A. Dietrich

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Robert A. Dietrich (born March 28, 1889 in Berlin ; † September 8, 1947 there ) was a German film architect , the first significant set designer in his country.

Life

Dietrich first studied at the Arts and Crafts Academy and at the School of Architecture in Portland , United States, before joining the Deutsche Bioscop film company in 1911 and initially (until shortly before the outbreak of war in 1914) the decorations for the extremely successful dramas and comedies of the Dane Urban Gad and his house star Asta Nielsen designed. He was able to realize his first artistically challenging work in early 1913: The student from Prague became his most famous work of his entire career. Three years later, Dietrich undertook another foray into the fantastic cinema with the six-part Homunculus , a story staged by Otto Rippert about the creation of an artificial human being. In 1918 Dietrich switched to Stern-Film, for which he initially designed several works for the director EA Dupont .

Dietrich's later designs until shortly before the end of the Second World War mainly served routine productions that he made for a wide variety of companies. Most recently, since 1940, Robert Dietrich worked almost exclusively for the Tobis . His last work was the detective and crook comedy Peter Voss, the thief of the million , which only started in 1946 due to the war and for which Dietrich made a remarkable Art Nouveau ensemble, a Wild West backdrop and Indian living quarters in 1943.

In many of his work, Dietrich collaborated with his colleague Artur Günther , whom he had trained since 1917.

Filmography

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 397 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Robert A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1947
Place of death Berlin , Soviet occupation zone