Willy Goldberger

Wilhelm "Willy" Goldberger (born July 25, 1898 in Berlin ; † after 1965) was a cameraman of German origin for German and European film.

Life

Goldberger began working for Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers' BB film in 1915 . After his military service in 1917/18, Goldberger became a sought-after cameraman in German film in the twenties. He mostly shot comedies, less often melodramas. At the beginning of the sound film era he was often behind the camera in operetta-like music films by Géza von Bolvárys .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 Jewish origins Goldberger emigrated and lived in the next six years alternately in nine countries. There he found ample employment as a cameraman, most recently in Sweden from December 1936 to December 1937. At the beginning of 1938 Goldberger went back to Vienna , but left Austria after the Anschluss at the end of March of the same year for Sweden.

Willy Goldberger then settled in Portugal and, after the end of the Spanish Civil War, in Spain, where he continued his work as a cameraman. Hispanicized to Guillermo Goldberger , the experienced technician was gladly employed. "For the Spanish audience, Goldberger mainly shot pompous melodramas and sentimental love stories, but also a few comedies, socially committed and patriotic-military subjects." Together with his colleague Heinrich Gärtner , who also came from German film , he set up his own camera school on location that set the scene for the future generation of Spanish cameramen.

In the 1950s, Willy Goldberger was twice active in Germany. His brother Isidor (o) Isy Goldberger, born in 1892, was also a cameraman in Spain. In the mid-1960s he completely disappeared from the public eye, and since 1970 there has been no Goldberger entry in the Madrid register.

Filmography (selection)

• 1915: Soap bubbles
• 1915: The Indian death
• 1916: How I became a detective
• 1916: The mysterious advertisement
• 1919: Justice
• 1920: Anna Karenina
• 1920: the horror
• 1920: The experiences of the famous dancer Fanny Elßler
• 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg
• 1920: Death on the neck
• 1920: The yellow diplomat
• 1921: The house on Dragonerstrasse
• 1921: Who among you is without sin
• 1921: The diamonds competition
• 1921: From the depths of the big city
• 1921: Hazard
• 1921: The Cayenne Convict
• 1921: The girl who is waiting
• 1921: To the son
• 1921: The buried me
• 1921: The golden plague
• 1921: From the memoirs of a film actress
• 1921: The girl from Picadilly (2 parts)
• 1922: The lodging house for gentlemen
• 1922: The fortune teller
• 1923: Raskolnikov
• 1924: The power of darkness
• 1924: The man at midnight
• 1925: Zapfenstreich
• 1925: your last stupidity
• 1925: Ash Wednesday
• 1925: Life's dice game
• 1925: people in need
• 1926: The little girl and her gentleman
• 1926: German hearts on the German Rhine
• 1926: The blatant fox
• 1926: The good reputation
• 1926: When the heart of the youth speaks
• 1927: The light Isabell
• 1927: Children's souls accuse you
• 1927: The woman who can't say no
• 1927: U 9 ​​Weddigen
• 1927: primary love
• 1927: The awakening of the woman
• 1927: Alpine tragedy
• 1927: A day of roses in August
• 1927: Hercules Maier
• 1928: Casanova's legacy
• 1928: The trees bloom in Werder
• 1928: Polish economy
• 1928: Modern pirates
• 1928: Adam and Eve
• 1928: Princess Olala
• 1928: The robbery of the Sabine women
• 1928: Serenissimus and the Last Virgin
• 1929: Perjury
• 1929: Connection at midnight
• 1929: The green monocle
• 1929: Column X
• 1929: Between fourteen and seventeen - sexual distress of youth
• 1929: Trust of the thieves
• 1929: father and son
• 1930: delicacies
• 1930: My daughter's tutor
• 1930: If you still have a home
• 1930: Two hearts in three-quarter time
• 1930: juggler ( Les saltimbanques )
• 1930: The Waltz King
• 1930: a tango for you
• 1930: Va Banque
• 1930: The Csikos Baroness
• 1930: The song is over
• 1930: The gentleman on order
• 1931: weekend in paradise
• 1931: The way to Rio
• 1931: the fate of a beautiful woman
• 1931: Schubert's spring dream
• 1931: The merry women of Vienna
• 1931: I'm going out and you stay there
• 1931: The robbery of the Mona Lisa
• 1931: Panic in Chicago
• 1931: L'inconstante
• 1931: Hurray - a boy!
• 1931: love command
• 1931: You don't need money
• 1931: My Leopold
• 1932: Miss - Wrongly connected
• 1932: A little love for you
• 1932: A song, a kiss, a girl
• 1932: I don't want to know who you are
• 1932: The will of Cornelius Gulden
• 1932: A man with a heart
• 1932: The rebel
• 1933: Madame does not want children
• 1933: What women dream
• 1933: A girl from Vienna (going gay)
• 1933: For Love of You
• 1933: Rakoczy March
• 1934: Csibi, the face
• 1934: The pale Bet (bet Bleeke)
• 1934: Everything for the company
• 1935: last love
• 1935: Diary of the beloved
• 1935: Your Highness waltzes
• 1935: Vida rotas
• 1935: El malvado Carabel
• 1936: Coffee Moscow (Café Moszkva)
• 1936: Miss Lilli
• 1936: En flicka kommer till stan
• 1937: Lyckliga vestköping
• 1937: Häxnatten
• 1937: En sjöman går i land
• 1937: Kamrater i vape dry
• 1937: Än en gang Gösta Ekman / Far och son
• 1938: A stroll through Vienna with Robert Stolz (short documentary, also director)
• 1938: A Canção da Terra
• 1938: A Rosa do Adro
• 1939: Feitiço do Império
• 1941: Los millones de Polichinela
• 1941: Torbellino
• 1942: Malvaloca
• 1942: La condesa Maria
• 1943: Cristina Guzman
• 1943: Noche fantastica
• 1943: Café de Paris
• 1943: Rosas de otoño
• 1944: Ella y sus millones
• 1945: Un hombre de negocios
• 1946: Un drama nuevo
• 1946: Serenata española
• 1947: Barrio
• 1947: Mañana como hoy
• 1948: Sin uniform
• 1948: Tres ladrones en la casa
• 1949: El hombre que veia la muerte
• 1949: La guitarra de Carlos Gardel
• 1949: Sinfonia madrileña (documentary, also screenplay)
• 1950: Septima página
• 1950: Servicio en la mar
• 1951: Esa pareja feliz
• 1953: Wedding while traveling
• 1954: A house full of love
• 1955: Goodbye Seville

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. 305.
• 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. 201.

Web links

• Willy Goldberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 202.
2. ^ Film archive Kay Less.