Rochus Gliese

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Rochus Gliese (born January 6, 1891 in Berlin ; † December 22, 1978 there ) was a German set designer and film director .

theatre

Gliese studied painting and theater history in Berlin from 1909 to 1911. He initially worked as a costume designer and from 1913 as a set designer at various Berlin theaters: from 1913 to 1914 at the Deutsches Künstlertheater , 1914 at the Lessing Theater , from 1915 to 1917 at the Meinhard-Bernauer-Bühnen, 1918 at the Residenztheater and from 1922 to 1932 at the State Theater . He was initially influenced by Expressionism , but later found a room design tailored to the scenic requirements. In 1933 he went to the theater in Essen, but returned to Berlin the following year, where he worked in the theater until 1944. After the war he worked in Potsdam from 1947 to 1949.

Movie

In addition to his theater work, Gliese was also engaged as a film architect, costume designer and film director since 1913. In 1913 he designed the costumes for The Student from Prague . A close creative collaboration developed with the main actor in this film, Paul Wegener , and Gliese was both the film architect and director of his fairy tale films. At the Yoghi and Rübezahl's wedding, he assisted Wegener in his role as director. Gliese was also involved in all three of Wegener's Golem films; for the last one, The Golem as He Came Into the World, Gliese was responsible for the costumes.

His film design was now influenced by film expressionism . He worked for four films by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and went to the USA with them in 1927, where he was nominated for an Oscar in 1929 for his work for Sunrise - Song of Two People , but otherwise worked rather unsuccessfully as a film architect for two years. Gliese's last directorial work was in 1930 The Hunt for Happiness . After the war he also worked for DEFA (A hen party, 1955, directed by Curt Bois ). In 1973 he received the gold film tape for his life's work.

Filmography

theatre

literature

  • Hans Günther Pflaum : Kinetic Poetry. Paul Wegener's "Rübezahls Hochzeit" 1916. In: Peter Buchka (Ed.): German moments. A sequence of images for a typology of the film. Belleville, Munich 1996, ISBN 3923646496 (series: “Off-Texts” 1, of the Munich Film Museum; first: SZ , 1995, pp. 16-17.).

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personal data
SURNAME Gliese, Rochus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1978
Place of death Berlin