Robert Scharfenberg

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Robert Scharfenberg (* around 1900 in Germany , † after 1958, presumably in Egypt ) was a German film architect .

Live and act

Scharfenberg, who was considered a good craftsman (carpenter), is one of the great unknowns among Germany's filmmakers, although he, together with his colleague Carl Haacker , with whom he had worked several times up to 1933, as the most important film architect of socialist film in Germany Hitler time applies. Nothing is known about his professional training, but the committed communist started his active career in Soviet film when he designed the sets for the anti-capitalist film "Kira Kiralina" in Ukraine in 1927 , a film adaptation of the Romanian Panait Istrati 's novel of the same name . Back home in Berlin, Scharfenberg found employment with Prometheus Film . Together with Haacker, he designed the film structures for three selected pro-socialist and proletarian “Prometheus” productions: “ Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück ”, “ Jenseits der Straße ” and finally “ Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? ", In which he also took part in the production management.

Due to his communist convictions, Robert Scharfenberg had to leave Germany immediately as a result of the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933. Years of traveling through Western Europe followed. In the Netherlands in 1934 he created the love romance "Het meisje met den blauwen hoed" by fellow exile Rudolf Meinert , two years later Scharfenberg contributed to the script for Siegfried Arno's only film director, the Belgian film "La gloire du régiment". Scharfenberg managed to enter Egypt before the outbreak of World War II . With the still underdeveloped cinematography of this country, his scene-making skills fell on fertile ground, and Robert Scharfenberg designed the buildings for a number of domestic film productions over the next two decades. After his last work in 1959, his trace is lost.

Filmography

  • 1927: Kira Kiralina / Кира Киралина
  • 1928: A princess's thorn path
  • 1929: Beyond the Street
  • 1929: Mother Krausen's Journey to Happiness '
  • 1932: Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? (also co-production manager)
  • 1932: What's new today? (Short film, also production management)
  • 1933: M 17 tow tractor
  • 1934: Het meisje met den blauwen hoed
  • 1936: La gloire du régiment (scriptwriting only)
  • 1939: Lashin
  • 1943: Taqiyyat al ikhfa
  • 1945: Awwal el shahr
  • 1946: Ma'darsh
  • 1947: Zahrah
  • 1948: el Qâtil
  • 1948: Nahw el magd
  • 1952: Ena votsalo sti limni ... (also costumes)
  • 1954: Dayman ma'ak
  • 1959: Ihtaris min el houbb

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 605.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An interview with screenwriter Willy Döll
personal data
SURNAME Scharfenberg, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH after 1958
Place of death unsure: Egypt