Willy Schiller

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Willy Schiller (born August 11, 1899 in Berlin , † July 17, 1973 in Potsdam-Babelsberg ) was a German set designer .

Life

After completing his training as a theater painter and participating in the World War, he came to Berlin in 1918. From 1920 he was a decorative painter for films. In this role he was involved in the productions of The Golem, How He Came Into the World (1920), The Mountain Cat (1921) and Back Staircase (1921). Willy Schiller had been a KPD member since 1925 and was active in left-wing artistic circles around the painter Otto Nagel .

1927 began his work as a film architect; together with Gustav Knauer he formed a team. In numerous entertainment films, there was a multiple collaboration with the Swiss director Edmund Heuberger . Schiller was responsible for the decorations for Werner Hochbaum's raid in St. Pauli (1932), the interior shots of which were shot in the Vera-Filmwerke film studio. From 1933 to 1938 he worked closely with Otto Hunte . Then he was again an outfitter for Werner Hochbaum. A girl goes ashore , a Prussian love story and three non-commissioned officers were created together with the film architect Carl Haacker .

After the Second World War, Willy Schiller was one of the founders of DEFA . His first post-war production was Wolfgang Staudte's rotation , later he worked for Kurt Maetzig ( Der Rat der Götter , Ernst Thälmann - son of his class ), among others . Schiller was in film until the mid-1960s.

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SURNAME Schiller, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1973
Place of death Potsdam-Babelsberg