Sigfrido Burmann

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Siegfried Burmann , who worked as Sigfrido Burmann in his Spanish adopted home , (born November 11, 1890 in Northeim ; † July 22, 1980 in Madrid , Spain ) was a German-Spanish painter , set designer and film architect with an intense career in the Spanish cinema of the Franco- Era .

Life

Burmann attended the art academy in his hometown Northeim at the beginning of the 20th century and trained as a painter and set designer. In 1908 a painting scholarship brought him to Spain for the first time. He began his career in Madrid in 1920 as a set designer and painter, and his work brought him together with Spain's most important poet Federico García Lorca . Burmann's theater sets adorned productions based on models by u. a. Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Jean Anouilh, Friedrich Schiller, Emlyn Williams and even Bertolt Brecht.

It was not until 1933 that Siegfried Burmann, who Hispanicized his first name to “Sigfrido” in Spain, first made contact with the cinema in his adopted country. At first he was employed there as a set painter, architect assistant and simple architect, from 1938, after a temporary stay in Berlin, Burmann was mainly active as an outfitter. Burmann, who is married to a Baskin, designed the film sets for an abundance of entertainment productions. These were comedies and comedies as well as dramas and melodramas; But Burmann also designed the architecture for Francoist propaganda pieces. In fact, all of the important directors of the Franco era, including Edgar Neville , Ladislao Vajda , Florián Rey , Luis García Berlanga and Juan de Orduña , used his designs.

It was not until the mid-1960s that Siegfried 'Sigfrido' Burmann gradually withdrew into private life. In 1973, already well over 80 years old, he finally ended both his film work and his stage work. His older son, Hans Burmann , who was still born in Germany , worked as a cameraman, while his other son Wolfgang Burmann chose his father's profession and had been a sought-after film architect since the 1960s.

Filmography

  • 1938: The Barber of Seville ( El barbero de Sevilla )
  • 1939: Los cuatros Robinsones
  • 1940: La gitanilla
  • 1940: La marquesona
  • 1941: Fortunato
  • 1941: Oro vil
  • 1941: Raza
  • 1942: Endless longing ( Sarasate )
  • 1942: Goyescas
  • 1944: Castañuela
  • 1945: Bambù
  • 1945: Souka ( Misión blanca )
  • 1946: Un drama nuevo
  • 1946: Serenata española
  • 1947: Confidencia
  • 1947: Nada
  • 1947: Revelación
  • 1948: La cigarra
  • 1948: Joan of Castile ( Locura de amor )
  • 1949: Filigrana
  • 1949: Noventa minutos
  • 1949: Vendaval
  • 1950: Sangre en Castilla
  • 1950: Pequeñeces
  • 1950: Agustina de Aragón
  • 1951: La leona de Castilla
  • 1951: Alba de América
  • 1951: Lola la picanera
  • 1952: Dona Francisquita
  • 1953: La alegre caravana
  • 1953: Maldición gitana
  • 1953: Novio a la vista
  • 1954: Aventuras del Barbero de Sevilla
  • 1954: Cañas y barro
  • 1954: El padre Pitillo
  • 1955: Un aventura de Gil Blas
  • 1955: The Taming of the Shrew ( La fierecilla domada )
  • 1956: Torrepartida
  • 1956: The Great Seducer ( Don Juan )
  • 1956: The bare life ( El bataillón de las sombras )
  • 1957: The Sheik's Son ( Gli amanti del deserto )
  • 1957: Maravilla
  • 1958: Café de Puerto
  • 1958: La tirana
  • 1958: Musica de ayer
  • 1959: Maria de la O
  • 1959: People in the shadows ( Il magistrato )
  • 1960: El indulto
  • 1960: El amor de los amores
  • 1961: Bello recuerdo
  • 1961: Historia de una noche
  • 1962: El balcón de la luna
  • 1962: Loca juventud
  • 1963: La batalla del domingo
  • 1963: Las gemelas
  • 1963: El secreto de Tomy
  • 1964: Valiente
  • 1964: For a handful of dollars ( Per un pugno di dollari )
  • 1964: Un hombre solo
  • 1964: Jandro
  • 1965: Saul e David
  • 1965: You will soon be singing, Vogelein ( Mission spèciale à Caracas )
  • 1965: The Marquis - the man who wanted to sell himself (El marques)
  • 1966–1970: La casa de los Martinez (TV series)
  • 1973: Tamaño natural

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 609.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to the film's large personal dictionary ; the Spanish Wikipedia and IMDb wrongly name the year 1891 and also incorrectly Hanover as the place of birth
personal data
SURNAME Burmann, Sigfrido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Spanish painter, set designer and film architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim , Lower Saxony, Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1980
Place of death Madrid , Spain