Rudolf Bamberger

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Rudolf Bamberger (* 21st May 1888 in Mainz , † in winter 1944 / 45 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German stage designer , art director and documentary film - director .

Life

Bamberger, whose mother Anna Klara, geb. Lewino, who had studied piano with Clara Schumann , received a commercial training and studied music in Leipzig . He received further training in artistic design at Berlin's University of Fine Arts . Together with his brother Ludwig Berger , Bamberger worked at the theater in Mainz during the First World War , for example in 1916 in the production of Mozart's opera Gärtnerin aus Liebe . In Berlin , Bamberger designed the buildings for his brother's films and the sets and costumes for Berger's theater productions Heaven and Hell and The Holy from the USA . In between, Rudolf Bamberger also worked as an author. A trip to Hollywood in 1927 at Ludwig's side had no cinematic consequences.

Shortly after the start of the sound film era, Rudolf Bamberger began directing documentaries. He founded his own production company with Curt Oertel , which began work in 1932. In the period that followed, mostly short documentations were made about the cathedrals and ministers of Naumburg , Mainz and Strasbourg . As a result of the seizure of power , the Jew Bamberger felt compelled to leave Germany in 1934 and followed Ludwig briefly to Paris and London . In 1938 Bamberger and his wife, the actress Hanna Waag , settled in Luxembourg . There he found employment in a brewery . After the Allies landed in Normandy , Bamberger was arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz in the autumn of the same year. His last sign of life dates back to December 9, 1944, when he can be identified in the inmate building block 20 . Bamberger died under unexplained circumstances a few weeks before the camp was liberated.

Rudolf Bamberger and his brother Ludwig Berger were 2nd cousins ​​of the pianist Grete Sultan .

Filmography

as a film architect

as a director of short documentaries

  • 1932: White water rafting through the Black Mountains (also co-production)
  • 1932: Mushrooms in the autumn forest (also co-production)
  • 1932: The stone miracles of Naumburg (also co-production and screenplay)
  • 1933: The Naumburg Passion (also co-production and screenplay)
  • 1934: About us the cathedral (also co-script)
  • 1934: A Symphony in Stone (also screenplay)

literature

  • Moritz von Bredow: rebellious pianist. The life of Grete Sultan between Berlin and New York . (Biography, 368 p., 60 figs. - Many references to Rudolf Bamberger and Ludwig Berger as well as to the family history of their mother) Schott Music , Mainz, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7957-0800-9 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 49.
  • 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. 80.
  • CineGraph Delivery 1 March 1984.
  • Robert G. Scheuer (Red.): Rudolf Bamberger. Sketches from life and work . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1972, (series 18), 178 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CineGraph names, without further evidence, "January 1945".
  2. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, film architect and documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH around 1945
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp