Victor Schamoni

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Victor Schamoni (born December 6, 1901 in Hamm , † April 13, 1942 near Voronow , Soviet Union ) was a German art historian and cineast .

family

Victor Schamoni had two younger brothers, the Catholic theologian Wilhelm Schamoni (1905-1991) and Albert Schamoni , painter and poet, who had been missing on the Eastern Front since 1945 . Schamoni married Maria Vormann in Soest in 1931 , who published her memory book “Meine Schamonis” in 1982 in the Nymphenburger Verlagsanstalt. In the book she describes the history of her marriage and the careers of her sons Victor (1932–1975), Peter (1934–2011), Thomas (1936–2014) and Ulrich (1939–1998), who have been co-founders as cineastes since the 1960s of the New German Cinema .

Life

Victor Schamoni tried to establish himself as a film journalist and filmmaker in Berlin since the mid-1920s after lengthy study visits to Italy, Spain and Paris. In 1926 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster, “On the aesthetic possibilities of photography and the photographic movement of film”. He published an updated part of this extensive work in 1936 under the title “Das Lichtspiel - possibilities of absolute film”. The term “absolute film” describes a movement in German avant-garde film in the 1920s that is closely associated with film artists such as Viking Eggeling , Hans Richter , Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger .

In 1929 he organized the exhibition "Der Gute Film" ( Werkbund exhibition film and photo) on behalf of the Berlin State Art Library . Before that he had founded his company Fama-Film in Berlin, where he realized his first own production "Oberammergau - The Village of Actors of the Great Passion Play" and released René Clair's "The Florentiner Hat" in the German version by Walter Ruttmann as distributor . His films “Soest - Westphalia's honorable Hanseatic city” and “The Cologne Cathedral” have been preserved.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Berlin police force . As a lieutenant in the reserve, he initially served at the headquarters of the police film and image office. Ordered to serve in the East in 1941, he witnessed deportations and mass shootings in the Ukraine. When he returned to Berlin, he informed friends and church authorities about these crimes. He was then assigned to the front in front of Leningrad. There he was killed on April 13, 1942 near the village of Voronow, south of Lake Ladoga, by a Russian sniper during entrenchment work .

Josef Wirmer , a friend from Quickborn's student days, with whom he was in close contact to the end, was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1944 for actively participating in the resistance against the Nazi dictatorship .

Publications

Schamoni has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines.

  • The play of light. Possibilities of the absolute film. Reimann, Hamm 1936 (updated dissertation, University of Münster, 1926).

literature

  • Wilhelm Grabe: Viktor Schamoni and the “Westfälische Landeslichtspiele” in Soest. A failed experiment in Catholic film work in the country 1930/33. In: Soester magazine. 112: 97-108 (2000).
  • Maria Schamoni: My Schamonis . Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-485-00463-4

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personal data
SURNAME Shamoni, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1942
Place of death Voronov, south of Lake Ladoga , Soviet Union