Walter Jerven

Walter Jerven (born November 30, 1889 in Hanover , † February 3, 1945 in Berlin ; actually Johann Wilhelm Wucherpfennig ) was a German film historian , director and author .

life and work

As early as 1915 he published a collection of prose texts under the title 1870/71 songs and poems in the series of fifty-pfennig books at Reuss & Itta-Verlag . From January 3, 1916 to April 1917, he was editor of the Bodenseebuch. In this capacity he wrote a. a. A literary hike on Lake Constance .

In 1929 he produced the feature film Der Sonderling with Karl Valentin alongside Franz Osten , for which he wrote the screenplay and directed. Later he got into an argument with Valentin. In the Film-Kurier of September 21, 1928 he published a gloss on the work with Karl Valentin. From 1933 on, Jerven earned his living showing small compilation films , which he told funny stories about. In a newspaper review from 1931, Jerven's performance in a cinema was praised for puns, cabaret performances and witty explanations of mistakes in directing.

In his directorial work Von Zeppelin 1 to LZ 130 , Jerven's enthusiasm for aviation is evident. This made use of the National Socialist propaganda in the reserved film Himmelstürmer . For this film, Walter Jerven researched various collections and archives, in particular he was able to fall back on the holdings of the Reichsfilmarchiv founded in 1935 .

Jerven died shortly before the end of the war in an air raid in Berlin.

estate

There is no evidence of an estate from Walter Jerven. In the estate of the KPÖ politician Max Haller , which is kept in the Franz Michael Felder archive of the Vorarlberg State Library in Bregenz, there are manuscripts and letters to Jerven from the years 1913–1923 (including from Hermann Hesse , René Schickele , Ferdinand Hardekopf ).

Publications

Books

• 1915: 1870/71
• 1915: heroines
• 1916: Old Calendar Stories
• 1916: Constana
• 1917: The cheerful book
• 1918: The Christmas book
• 1922: strange experiences
• 1923: The book of Baden
• 1928: Laotse, Tao-te-King

Filmography

• 1926: Miss Mama (screenplay)
• 1927: A Beautiful Woman's Toy (screenplay)
• 1927: The Queen of Variety (screenplay)
• 1929: The Nerd (director, screenplay, producer)
• 1932: Asta Nielsen. A great artist (screenplay, director) short film
• 1933: The world of yore. A film sequence (script, director) short film
• 1934: La Paloma. A song of comradeship (screenplay, assistant director)
• 1934: Toi que j'adore (screenplay)
• 1934: I don't know you and I love you (screenplay)
• 1935: Punks comes from America (screenplay with Curt J. Braun )
• 1937: From Zeppelin 1 to LZ 130 (director)
• 1941: Himmelstürmer . The birth and history of flying (director, producer).

Web links

• Walter Jerven in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Walter Jerven at filmportal.de
• Walter Jerven's crypto estate in the Vorarlberg State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nazi files of a comedian. In: Der Spiegel. 23/2007 of June 4, 2007.
2. ↑ Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Hügel, German literary journals 1880-1945: Ein Repertorium, Walter de Gruyter 1988, page 171
3. ^ Renate Heuer, Andrea Boelke-Fabian: Encyclopaedia of German-Jewish Authors, Walter de Gruyter. 2009, page 366
4. ^ "When Karl Valentin was filming" In: Film-Kurier No. 227, from September 21, 1928.
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release film series on the occasion of 50 years of the Deutsche Kinemathek Filmspotting. Explorations in the film archive of the Deutsche Kinemathek " 
6. ^ Catalog of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek , accessed on November 14, 2014
7. ^ Otto Wilhelm Barth Verlag, Munich