Wolfgang Kaskeline

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Kaskeline (born September 23, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 13, 1973 in Bonn ) was a German director for advertising films , film producer and professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Life

The son of the Jewish factory director Viktor Kaskeline (1858–1931) was a volunteer in the First World War from August 1914 until his wounding on October 26, 1914 . After a two-year stay in the hospital, he passed his drawing teacher exam and had been working as a drawing teacher at the secondary school in Berlin since 1917 . In 1918 he married Minna, née Berg, whom he met as a nurse in the hospital and with whom he had three children. His second marriage was to Edith, nee Jacobi.

Originally coming from painting , the film-loving teacher finally got into animation as a commercial artist . Wolfgang Kaskeline produced cartoons in his house in Berlin-Tempelhof from the 1920s. From 1922 he worked with the cameraman Gerhard Huttula . Among other things, Kaskeline created the advertising films with the Sarotti - Mohr . His first client was the company Continental, whose two films made in 1925 made their breakthrough as an advertising cartoon. His six-minute, abstract cartoon “Fire Magic” for the cigarette manufacturer Muratti attracted a lot of attention in 1930.

He initially joined the company Mendelfilm , Albert Alberts Arminius-Film and in 1927 Ufa-Werbefilm . In 1928 he produced an advertising film for Meierei C. Bolle , in the black and white frame of which a colored dream sequence was integrated. With the start of the sound film in the early 1930s, he was one of the first advertising sound film makers in Europe. Because of disputes with Ufa, he worked temporarily (1937–1943) for Epoche Film. In 1943 he became head of the newly founded Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH.

With his Kaskeline-Film, founded in 1926, he continued to produce advertising and documentary films after the war. Cinematographers, editors and animators were also trained there in a three-year apprenticeship. After the war, the company was re-established near Bonn. Since 1962 the business was continued by his sons Horst and Heinz Kaskeline. In 1987, Heinz and his wife Jutta Kaskeline founded the Kaskeline Film Academy named after him in Berlin, a state-recognized, vocational institution.

Wolfgang Kaskeline died in Bonn in 1973 at the age of 80.

Filmography

  • 1928: Bolle
  • 1934: the blue point
  • 1935: two colors
  • 1935: Indianthren
  • 1951: Asbach Uralt
  • 1951: laundry winged
  • 1963: The sad princess

literature

  • Herma Kennel : When the comics learned to run: The animation pioneer Wolfgang Kaskeline between advertising and propaganda. 1st edition. bebra verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-89809-173-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ opac.bbf.dipf.de
  2. ^ Rolf Giesen, JP Storm: An Animation Pioneer with a Non-Aryan Background: Wolfgang Kaskeline. In: Animation Under the Swastika: A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. McFarland, Jefferson NC 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-4640-7 , pp. 42-49.
  3. ^ William Moritz: Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era: the case of Hans Fischerkoesen. (English) ( animationjournal.com ( Memento from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Kaskeline, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1973
Place of death Berlin