Sophus Wangøe
Sophus Wangøe , also Sophus Wangoe or Sophus Wangöe , (born February 2, 1873 in Denmark , † July 28, 1943 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish cameraman for Danish and German silent films.
Life
Only fragmentary information is known about Wangøe's life. He first worked as a laborer in a Copenhagen pub not far from the film company Nordisk Film , where the most important cameraman of the time, Axel Graatkjær , met him while playing billiards . Graatkjær referred him to Nordisk boss Ole Olsen , and a little later Wangøe was hired as a cameraman.
In the early years (from 1912) Sophus Wangøe worked mainly with the director Robert Dinesen , and since the late 1910s with other important Danish filmmakers such as Lau Lauritzen senior , Holger-Madsen , August Blom and AW Sandberg . In 1913 he was the only time he appeared as a director and made a short documentary about the well-known Danish painter Kristian Zahrtmann . His film The Maharaja's Favorite Wife , made with Dinesen in 1916, was a particularly great success in Germany. In 1918 Wangøe photographed Der Torchträger with Asta Nielsen . As a result of the general emigration of Danish film workers to neighboring Germany immediately after the end of the First World War , Wangøe also went to Berlin , where he quickly made contact with the local film industry at the beginning of the 1920s. There, too, he often shot with Dinesen in the beginning, but later also photographed films by German directors. However, remarkable only his camera work on him came Martin Berger's Crusade of the woman , Kurt Bernhardt's Jane Eyre film version The Orphan of Lowood and Hans Kyser's Luther - Movie of the 1927th
After that, Wangøe almost exclusively supervised documentaries, industrial and advertising films and ended his camera work completely with the dawn of the sound film age in Germany. Sophus Wangøe probably left Germany soon after the Nazi regime began and returned to Denmark, where he died in the middle of World War II during the time of German occupation.
His son Eigil Edwin Wangøe (1902–1987) stayed in the Third Reich and continued his work as a still photographer , which he had begun during the silent film era in Germany, well into the war years . After the war he emigrated to the USA and lived in Washington State until his death in autumn 1987 .
Filmography
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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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 257 f.
Web links
- Sophus Wangøe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sophus Wangøe at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The life of Sophus Wangøe on danskefilm.dk
- ↑ Graatkjær interview in kinotv.com
- ^ The sound film guide from 1933 still gives his Berlin address
- ↑ Eigil Wangøe at ancestry.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wangøe, Sophus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wangoe, Sophus; Wangoe, Sophus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish cameraman for Danish and German silent films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |