Viktor Gluck

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Viktor Gluck (born September 1, 1897 in Brno , Austria-Hungary , † early 1957 in London-Ealing ) was a Moravian-born , Austrian cameraman .

Live and act

Gluck joined the film business at the age of twelve and gained his first experience as an apprentice. Over the next 13 years he worked his way up through various positions to become chief cameraman. From 1922 he took independent responsibility for shooting Austrian cinema films in Vienna , including an ambitious Beethoven biography with Fritz Kortner in the title role, and since moving to Berlin in 1928, German productions as well. While it was initially used there for cheerful film pieces, Viktor Gluck often photographed militaristic and historical stories with a strong nationalistic-patriotic background shortly after the dawn of the sound film era ( Die Somme , Douaumont, Tannenberg, Marschall Vorwärts ).

As a result of the seizure of power , Gluck returned to Vienna in 1933, where he found hardly any work as a Jew , and then left Austria in July 1935. Gluck went to London , but found no employment as a cameraman there either. Instead, he teamed up with fellow Austrian emigrants Karl Grune and Otto Kanturek and, from 1937, he participated in the development of a domestic color film process, British Chemicolour.

In August 1942 Viktor Gluck was expatriated by the National Socialist regime. Long forgotten by the film world, Gluck died in the first quarter of 1957 in the London borough of Ealing.

Filmography

  • 1922: Gulliver's Travels (unfinished)
  • 1922: The Hell of Barballo
  • 1923: How do I tell my child?
  • 1924: The Maharaja's doll
  • 1925: Women from the Vienna suburbs
  • 1926: Hotel Archduchess Viktoria (His Highness the Dancer)
  • 1927: Beethoven
  • 1927: Infantist Wamperl's three-year bad luck
  • 1927: Everything wants to go to the film
  • 1927: The man without a job ( The rough shirt )
  • 1927: Schwejk in civilian clothes
  • 1928: Robert and Bertram
  • 1928: His wife's lover
  • 1928: His Highness the Service Man (The Two Seals)
  • 1928: marriage fever
  • 1929: The girl from the provinces
  • 1929: Three days of life and death
  • 1930: The Somme
  • 1930: The three holy wells
  • 1930: be a student when the violets bloom
  • 1930: name marriage
  • 1931: Shadow of the ring
  • 1931: dangers of love
  • 1931: Douaumont
  • 1931: A woman must be forgiven for everything
  • 1931: The other side
  • 1932: Tannenberg
  • 1932: Marshal Forward
  • 1933: The duel between the sexes (La sépération des races)
  • 1934: somersault into bliss

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 289.
  • 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. 577.

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personal data
SURNAME Gluck, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian-born, Austrian cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH between January 1957 and March 1957
Place of death London Ealing