Wilfried Basse

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Wilfried Basse (actually Wilhelm-Friedrich Heinrich Hermann Basse ; born August 17, 1899 in Hanover ; † June 6, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German documentary filmmaker and cameraman who was only rediscovered in the 1970s / 80s because of his attitude towards the regime the National Socialists, however, is controversial.

Life

Wilfried Basse was the son of the Hanoverian banker Wilhelm Basse and grandson of the banker and politician August Basse .

After graduating from high school in 1919, he began an apprenticeship in banking with his father in 1921, and later moved to Berlin to found "Basse Film GmbH".

"In cooperation with his wife Gertrud and the cameraman Wolfgang Kiepenheuer , numerous reports and cultural films were produced up to 1939 , which often deal with topics from the world of work and sports"

- Jorg Giesemann : We child prodigies. 100 years of film production in Lower Saxony. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Historisches Museum Hannover from October 15, 1995 to January 16, 1996.

Works

The best known is his documentary "Germany - between yesterday and today", made between 1932 and 1934, which had to be changed several times after censorship interventions; this film was shown again at the 1977 Berlinale .

  • Wolfgang Kiepenheuer (compilation): People in Germany from 1932 [audio recordings]: Germany between yesterday and today , abridged version of the original, Frankfurt: Inter-Pathé-Film, [circa 1984], 1 video cassette [VHS] (25 min.): b / w

Basse was one of the cameramen in Leni Riefenstahl's Olympic film .

literature

  • CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film (with literature and film directory)
  • Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, p. 146f.
  • Ines Katenhusen : Note 1105 [with numerous references], in: Kunst und Politik. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies , series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 346
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : BASSE, (1) Wilfried. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 43; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Basse, (2) Wilfried. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 51.
  • Rudolf Arnheim , Gertrud T. Basse, Friedrich Terveen: Wilfried Basse. Notes on an almost forgotten classic of German documentary film. In: Kraft Wetzel, Peter A. Hagemann: Love, Death and Technology. Fantastic cinema 1933 - 1945 . Verlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1977. ISBN 3-920889-59-2 . There. Pp. 77–97 (with filmography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: BASSE, (1) Wilfried (see literature)
  2. ↑ Jorg Giesemann: We child prodigies . 100 years of film production in Lower Saxony. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Historisches Museum Hannover from October 15, 1995 to January 16, 1996. Ed .: Society for Film Studies. S. 276 (Editing: Susanne Höbermann, Pamela Müller).
personal data
SURNAME Basse, Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basse, Wilhelm-Friedrich Heinrich Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1946
Place of death Berlin