Rolf Lindau-Schulz

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Rolf Lindau-Schulz , actually Rudolf A. Lindau , (born August 21, 1904 in Thale , † July 27, 1969 in Santa Monica , California , USA) was a German actor and producer during the silent film era.

Life

Rolf Lindau was born as Rudolf A. Lindau, son of the writer Margarete Lindau-Schulz , who wrote the script for several of his films and also directed one.

The actor became known as a child actor in the silent movies of the late 1910s. He made his film debut as early as 1914, when he was ten years old in front of the camera with Margit Bergen in the measuring film “Die verflixten Koffer”. This was followed in 1917 by “Spitzenchristel”, a Christmas film directed by Hanna Henning , who also produced the film. In 1918 he played the hotel boy Maxl in the Stuart Webbs detective film " The Enigmatic Look " with Ernst Reicher . Allegedly Lindau was discovered by Reicher and brought to the film.

Between 1918 and 1920 he made a number of films with himself in the title role "Rolf". He usually embodied funny rascals, more or less skilled assistants, and once a jockey. With the exception of “Rolf, the girl for everything”, all were banned from youth by the Berlin police licensing.

From 1919 he produced several films in which he appeared as an actor in his own company, Rolf-Film GmbH. Berlin. Lindau also did the editing for two films.

In the 1920s, Lindau also appeared on stage as an actor and singer, e.g. B. in reviews by Rudolf Nelson .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Lindau emigrated to the United States. There he worked uncredited as a minor actor in numerous anti-Nazi films during the Second World War . After the end of the war he did not return to Germany.

Lindau was 64 years old.

Filmography

Rolf series

  • 1918: Rolf can do anything (Webbs-Film, No. 1)
  • 1918: Like Rolf, the little plant, helps the sister to create a myrtle wreath, also: Rolf, the little plant (Webbs film No. 2)
  • 1919: Rolf, the girl for everything (Alba Film Ernst Reicher)
  • 1919: Rolf, the master detective (Rolf Film, No. 1)
  • 1919: Rolf's vacation trip (Rolf Film, No. 2)
  • 1919: Schuhputzsalon Rolf GmbH [Script: Margarete Lindau-Schulz, Robert Wiene ] (Rolf film)
  • 1919: Rolf wins the grand prize (Rolf Film, No. 4)
  • 1920: Rolf the Fourteenth (Rolf Film, No. 5)
  • 1920: Rolf incognito [screenplay: Margarete Lindau-Schulz] (Rolf film)
  • 1920: Rolf's manuscripts: 1. Rolf's bet
  • 1920: Rolf's manuscripts: 2. Flimmer-Rolf
  • 1921: Why am I my daughter's fiancé [screenplay, director: Margarete Lindau-Schulz]
  • 1922: Firnenrausch [actor, producer]
  • 1922: A prostitute's toys [Script: Margarete Lindau-Schulz, Helmuth Ortmann ]
  • 1924/1925: Rolf the Fourteenth [actor, producer]

Web links

literature

  • Rolf Lindau in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM)
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members , German Stage Association, Stage Student Council (Ed.): German Stage Yearbook 1927. Print and commission publisher FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin 1927.
  • John Holmstrom: The moving picture boy: an international encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Michael Russell publisher, 1996.
  • Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg: Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. (= Berghahn Series ). Berghahn Books, 1999, ISBN 1-57181-196-6 .
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. 4 volumes. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1953–1998, (continued from Volume 3 by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall at Francke Verlag Bern).
  • Madlen Lorei, Richard Kirn: Frankfurt and the golden twenties . Frankfurt Books, 1966.
  • Buck Rainey: Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956 . McFarland, 1999, ISBN 0-7864-0449-3 , pp. 305, 639. [here as “Ralf” Lindau-Schulz]
  • Christian Rapp: Höhenrausch: the German mountain film. Verlag Sonderzahl, 1997, ISBN 3-85449-108-5 .
  • Heide Schlüpmann: the uncanny look. The drama of early German cinema. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, 1990, p. 349.
  • Paolo Cherchi Usai (editor: Lorenzo Codelli): Before Caligari: German cinema, 1895–1920. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
  • 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, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see less, p. 591 and Holmstrom, p. 23
  2. ↑ cf. Usai on p. 507: “The darned suitcases. Meßter-Film 1914. D Rolf Lindau-Schulz, Margit Bergen ”and IMDb ; on filmportal.de, however , the film appears under the year 1921 and with another production company, the “International Film Distribution Dietz & Co (Berlin)”, without naming Lindau.
  3. ↑ cf. Thomas Staedteli at cyranos.ch and GECD # 34466
  4. ↑ so in Less p. 591 and Holmstrom p. 23: “Rolf's mother, the writer Margarethe Lindau-Schulz, scripted the first film he appeared in. He was signed up on a three-year contract by the detective star Stuart Webbs (1885 -1936, RN Ernst Reicher) as his junior sidekick ” .
  5. ↑ cf. Less p. 591 and photos on “Ross” postcards no. 180/1 and 180/2
  6. ↑ also awarded under the second title “Rolf as a girl for everything”, cf. GECD # 32454
  7. ↑ cf. IMDb Rolf-Film (de) and filmportal.de
  8. ^ “Rolf wins the big price” (1919) and “Schuhputzsalon Rolf GmbH” (1919), cf. GECD
  9. ↑ cf. Lorei-Kirn 1966, p. 182 and Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1927, p. 237 u. 722
  10. ↑ according to Less, pp. 590–591
  11. ↑ so less p. 591, cf. List of American films from 1942 to 1945 at IMDb , where he met with roles such as German Soldier , German Lieutenant , German reporter , Nazi Conspirator , Nazi officer , German Flier and finally German Prisoner is listed
  12. ↑ cf. Jung-Schatzberg p. 205
personal data
SURNAME Lindau-Schulz, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindau, Rudolf A. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and producer in the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1969
Place of death Santa Monica , California , USA