Rolf Meyer (director)

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Rolf Meyer (left) with Arnold Ernst Fanck (right) on the return trip from the filming of Ein Robinson - Diary of a Sailor on board the luxury liner TS Bremen , spring 1939

Rolf Kurt Werner Otto Meyer (born November 12, 1910 in Suderode ; † February 3, 1963 in Todtglüsingen ) was a German screenwriter , film director and film producer .

Life

Meyer - son of a captain who died young - temporarily attended a high school in Berlin and began training as an opera band master there. His first contact with film brought him a traineeship as an editor . From 1936 he delivered numerous scripts , especially for film comedies , which were mainly realized by Tobis .

In 1947 he made his directorial debut with Migratory Birds and received on April 1 of the same year the British license to set up a film production company . In Bendestorf, south of Hamburg, he founded his Junge Film-Union, of which he was the sole owner. From 1947 to 1951 he produced 19 feature films as well as several short and documentary films, and directed several times himself. In 1950 he became a board member of the Association of German Film Producers, and in 1951 a member of the administrative board of the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau .

The changed economic situation after the currency reform forced Meyer, who was also handicapped by a serious traffic accident in November 1951, to file for bankruptcy for his company due to financial difficulties in 1952. Although he founded the successor organization Junge Film-Union GmbH together with Michael Jary at the end of 1952, he had to leave the company in 1954 due to insufficient guarantee and creditworthiness.

Rolf Meyer, who was married to Gerty Böttcher from Berlin, then withdrew from the film business because of his poor health. Meyer died at the age of 52 and was buried in the Hittfeld cemetery in the Harburg district. The Rolf-Meyer-Weg in Bendestorf not far from the film studios was named after him.

Filmography

  • 1936: August the Strong (screenplay)
  • 1936: Escapade / His official wife (screenplay)
  • 1936: Uncle Bräsig (co-script)
  • 1937: Warning against love (co-script)
  • 1937: The Divine Jette (co-script)
  • 1937: Twice two in a four-poster bed (co-script)
  • 1938: Discretion - a matter of honor (script editing)
  • 1939: A Robinson (co-script)
  • 1943: All out of love (idea)
  • 1943: The bath on the threshing floor (co-script, idea)
  • 1943: Fritze Bollmann wanted to fish (co-script)
  • 1944: Junge Herzen (co-screenplay)
  • 1944: A Little Summer Melody (co-script)
  • 1945: See you again (co-script)
  • 1945: engaged people (screenplay)
  • 1945: The Stake (co-script)
  • 1947: Migratory Birds (director, screenplay)
  • 1947: People in God's hands (direction, production)
  • 1947: District Resident Officer (short documentary, production)
  • 1948: Paths in Twilight (Production)
  • 1948: Stadtmeier and Landmeier (short documentary film, production)
  • 1948: The Magic Scissors (short documentary, production)
  • 1948: You are not meant (short film, production)

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See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atelier Filmstudio Bendestorf is demolished
  2. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Rolf Meyer
  3. ^ Forgotten film metropolis - Hollywood of the Lüneburg Heath
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Rolf Kurt Werner Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Suderode
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1963
Place of death Todtglüsingen