Werner Jacobs (director)

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Werner Jacobs (born April 24, 1909 in Berlin ; † January 24, 1999 in Munich ) was a German film editor and film director .

Life

The son of the stereotypist and businessman Ludwig Jacobs and his wife Erna geb. Kadow graduated from high school in Berlin-Steglitz in 1928 . Since he could not start studying for financial reasons, he was looking for a job in vain for two years. In 1930 he found employment with the Berlin dubbing studio Rhythmography. Jacobs worked here as a draftsman and assistant in film editing and sound editing.

1934–37 he worked as an editor and assistant director at the German branch of MGM , where he made German versions of films with Greta Garbo, among others . From 1939 Jacobs was also employed by Bavaria Film as an editor and assistant director for German productions. From 1940 he was drafted into military service until he was considered incapacitated from 1943 due to severe pneumonia and pleurisy.

After the end of the war, Jacobs was chief editor of all articles in the newsreel series Welt im Film until 1949 . He continued to work as an assistant director and made several short documentaries himself, which at the time were the usual opening shows in cinemas.

With The White and Blue Lion Jacobs made his debut as a feature film director in 1952. He developed into an experienced arranger of musical comedies, operetta adaptations and hit films, in which the respective stars such as Peter Alexander , Cornelia Froboess or Freddy Quinn made their big appearances. These entertainment films , sometimes funny, sometimes sentimental, avoided any thought-provoking argument with time problems and mostly achieved great audiences such as the 1960 operetta adaptation Im Weisse Rößl with the popular actors Peter Alexander, Waltraut Haas , Gunther Philipp and Adrian Hoven .

From 1967 to 1971 Jacobs staged a total of four parts of the series Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank , with which he again demonstrated his sense of humor. His two compassionate directorial works with the Dutch pop star Heintje were also very successful .

As a director, Werner Jacobs was a typical representative of German post-war cinema. After the end of the traditional music film in the seventies, he withdrew into private life. He had been married to Gertrud Hart since 1945 and became the father of his sons Joachim (* 1948) and Hans (* 1949).

Werner Jacobs' grave is in the Perlacher Forst cemetery in Munich.

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