Willy Großstück

Kurt Wilhelm Großstück , also Kurt Willy Großstück (* before 1900, † after 1929) was a German cameraman during the silent film era .

Live and act

Kurt Wilhelm "Willy" Großstück, for whom neither birth nor death dates are currently available, came to film in 1916. In that year he turned the camera for the five-act drama "Der Einäugige". In 1919 the adventure film "The Malay's Dagger" followed. In the 1920s he developed into a sought-after cameraman. He took over photography in adventure, crime and social films. These included two episodes in the Harry Hill series and an Eddie Polo film. He worked several times with colleagues such as Max Grix , Willy Hameister , Paul Holzki , Reimar Kuntze , Kurt Lande and Friedrich Paulmann .

He publishes reflections on his medium and his profession in the trade press under the title “crank technology flashes of light”.

In addition to feature films, he also photographed current sporting events, e. B. 1925 the fight of the German heavyweight boxer Hans Breitensträter against the Italian Paolino Uzcudun in the Berlin Sportpalast , where he worked alongside Georg Paezel and Herbert Körner as Willy Goldberger's camera assistant . In the same year he shot the full-length documentary film “The New Great Power” about the Workers' Olympics in Frankfurt am Main with Friedrich Paulmann for Wilhelm Prager ; In 1927 he captured a short documentary entitled "Two Sports Files in Pictures" with his camera.

When the era of silent film came to an end in 1928/29, his career in film also ended.

Filmography

• 1916: The one-eyed man
• 1919: The Malay's dagger
• 1919: The red executioner
• 1919: The millionaire girl
• 1919: The pink jersey
• 1919/20: The woman without a soul
• 1920: Va banque. The courage to be happy
• 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg (with Willy Goldberger and Max Terno )
• 1920: The Rivals [short feature film, 1 act]
• 1921: Those who walk in the shadows
• 1921: The white slave, 1st part: Two oaths
• 1921: The White Slave, Part 2: The Silence of the Big City
• 1921: Memoirs of a valet, 1st part: Martin, the foundling
• 1921: Memoirs of a valet, Part 2: Basquine's retribution
• 1921: film bandits
• 1921: The secrets of Berlin, 1st part: Berlin N. The dark city
• 1921: The Secrets of Berlin, Part 2: Berlin W. The cosmopolitan city in shine and light
• 1921: Demonic loyalty
• 1921: From the memories of a gynecologist, Part 1: Fleeing shadows
• 1921: From the memories of a gynecologist, Part 2: Lies and Truth
• 1921: The Secret of the Four Days
• 1921/22: The seventh night
• 1922: The Homecoming of Odysseus (with Giovanni Vitrotti)
• 1922: The love nest, part 1 (with Kurt Lande)
• 1922: The love nest, part 2 (with Kurt Lande)
• 1922: Alexandra
• 1922/23: The misanthropist
• 1923: Vineta, the sunken city (with Paul Holzki and Hans Bloch )
• 1923: Saved by radio message
• 1923: In the shadow of the mosque (with Willy Hameister)
• 1924: Mister Radio (with Eduardo Lamberti)
• 1925: Breitensträter - Paolino. The German master’s hardest fight [documentary]
• 1925: Free People (with Paul Holzki)
• 1925: Harry Hill under the spell of death rays [" Harry Hill " adventure]
• 1925: The King and the Little Girls
• 1925: The man on the comet
• 1925: Gretchen Schubert
• 1925: The New Great Power [documentary film] (with Friedrich Paulmann )
• 1926: The King's Order (with Viktor A. Zimmermann )
• 1926: Mermaid
• 1926: Harry Hill on Wave 1000 [" Harry Hill " Adventure]
• 1926: Bismarck 1862–1898
• 1926: Annemarie and her Ulan
• 1927: The rider's daughter
• 1927: who throws the first stone?
• 1927: The Lorelei, also: I dreamed of the Rhine tonight
• 1927: Benno stand-up collar
• 1927: The convict cavalier
• 1927: I'm standing in dark midnight
• 1927: Two acts of sport in pictures [short documentary film]
• 1928: Herr Meister and Frau Meister (with Reimar Kuntze)
• 1928/29: Revenge for Eddy [“ Eddie Polo ” adventure] (with Max Grix)

Web links

• Willy major piece in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Willy Großstück at filmportal.de

Fig .:

• Program for the German feature film “Der Dolch des Malayen” with Carl Auen (1919)
• Program for the German feature film "Das rosa Trikot" with Viktor Janson (1919)
• Program booklet for the German feature film “The Millionaire” with Ossi Oswalda (1919)

literature

• Stefan Andriopoulos: Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema . Translated by Stefan Andriopoulos u. Peter Jansen. University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-02057-0 , p. 164 (on the film “Der Einäugige” (1920))
• Hans Borgelt: UFA - a dream. Edition Q, Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-86124-178-1 , p. 146.
• Gero Gandert : 1929 - The film of the Weimar Republic . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-085261-5 , p. 528 (on the film “Rache für Eddy” (1929)).
• Jürgen Kasten, Munich Film Center: Erna Morena . Ed .: Jürgen Kasten, Brigitte Bruns. Verlag Belleville, 2005, ISBN 3-936298-52-1 , p. 327 (on the film “Bismarck 1862–1898” (1927))
• Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films: 1927–1931. Volume 9, p. 145.
• Ralf Mattern: From the Kaiser Panorama to the Filmpalast: Wernigerode's cinema history from 1897 . Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-8158-5 (for the film “Der Einäugige - a sensational film in 5 acts” (1916), shown in the “Germania” -Lichtspiele Wernigerode )
• Henry Nicolella, John T. Soister: Many Selves: The Horror and Fantasy Films of Paul Wegener. BearManor Media, undated [= 2012] (on the two-part “Das Liebesnest” (1922))
• Michael Töteberg , CineGraph, Hamburg Center for Film Research: The Ufa Book . Verlag Zweiausendeins, 1992, pp. 62, 64 (on the film “The Malay's Dagger” (1919))

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DNB gives 1919–1929 as impact data.
2. ↑ cf. Thomas Staedteli at Cyranos.ch
3. ↑ cf. Borgelt p. 146.
4. ↑ filmportal dates this film to 1920. IMDb gives two versions, one from 1916, another from 1921. Both dates agree: re-release?
5. ↑ so at IMDb; according to filmportal.de, Großstück did not participate in the second part; Hermann Saalfrank , Heinrich Gärtner and Kurt Lande are given as cameramen .