Stefan Wessely

Stefan Wessely (born January 5, 1888 in Adony , Weissenburg County , Austria-Hungary , † December 27, 1935 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian film architect for Austrian film.

Live and act

Little is known about Wessely's career and origins. After his artistic training and military service from 1914-18, he began his film career at the beginning of the 1920s with the Viennese production company Sascha . At the side of his more experienced colleague Julius von Borsody , he was involved in the execution of the building designs for the monumental film Sodom and Gomorrah in 1922 . He was assigned the young Viennese colleague Hans Rouc , who was to become his partner in a number of other films until the end of the silent film era, including a masterpiece of fantastic cinema, Robert Wienes Orlac’s hands , and the film adaptation of theStrauss opera Der Rosenkavalier , also a production by Vienna. Wessely also created the extensive costumes for this ambitious work.

Stefan Wessely found almost no employment in the sound film business; his last work is said to have been a scriptwriting for a parodic cartoon that was made in the year of his untimely death.

Filmography

• 1922: Sin
• 1922: Sodom and Gomorrah
• 1923: victim of hatred
• 1923: Gulliver's Travels (unfinished)
• 1923: duty and honor
• 1924: Hotel Potemkin
• 1924: Orlac's hands
• 1925: Women from the Vienna suburbs
• 1925: Der Rosenkavalier (also costumes)
• 1926: kissing is not a sin
• 1926: The perjurer
• 1926: The pastor of Kirchfeld
• 1926: Infantist Wamperl's three-year bad luck
• 1927: the right to live
• 1927: One night's marriage
• 1928: The White Sonata
• 1929: Eros in chains
• 1930: Viennese hearts (Archduke Otto and the laundress)
• 1934: somersault into bliss
• 1935: Carmen (cartoon, scriptwriter)

Web links

• Stefan Wessely in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stefan Wessely at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to the film archive Kay Less