Erich Waschneck
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Erich John Waschneck (29 April 1887, in Grimma, Kingdom of Saxony – 22 September 1970, in Berlin) was a German cameraman, director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Early life[]
Erich was the son of Karl Hermann Waschneck, a blacksmith, and his wife Therese Emilie, née Schneider. Waschneck went to finishing school at the Leipzig Art Academy and studied painting.
Career[]
He came in contact with the film industry in 1907 when he began to paint posters for films. He then worked as a still photographer and later as a camera assistant to cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner .
In 1921, he did his first work as a cameraman in the adaptation of the fairy tale The Little Muck by Wilhelm Hauff. From 1924 he worked as a director. His film Eight Girls in a boat (1932) won the Gold Medal at the Venice Film Festival. In 1932 he became managing director of Beacon-Film GmbH in Berlin and film producer. After the Nazi rise to power, into force on 4th Waschneck April 1933 the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization German-born film directors with. [1] In 1940, he directed the anti-Semitic propaganda film The Rothschilds'.
After the war Waschneck was only able to direct two films.
Personal life[]
In 1933 Waschneck married the actress Karin Hardt. Waschneck is buried in the old cemetery in Wannsee.
Selected filmography[]
- The Pearl of the Orient (1921)
- Love at the Wheel (1921)
- Barmaid (1922)
- The Girl with the Mask (1922)
- A Glass of Water (1923)
- The Chain Clinks (1923)
- The New Land (1924)
- The Stolen Professor (1924)
- Struggle for the Soil (1925)
- My Friend the Chauffeur (1926)
- The Man in the Fire (1926)
- Regine (1927)
- The Woman with the World Record (1927)
- Aftermath (1927)
- Sajenko the Soviet (1928)
- Docks of Hamburg (1928)
- Scandal in Baden-Baden (1929)
- Favorite of Schonbrunn (1929)
- Diane (1929)
- The Love of the Brothers Rott (1929)
- Two People (1930)
- Sacred Waters (1932)
- Eight Girls in a Boat (1932)
- Impossible Love (1932)
- (1933)
- Adventure on the Southern Express (1934)
- Music in the Blood (1934)
- Regine (1935)
- My Life for Maria Isabella (1935)
- (1935), awarded: "artistically valuable"
- Uncle Bräsig (1936)
- Escapade (1936)
- (1937)
- The Divine Jetta (1937)
- Anna Favetti (1938)
- Women for Golden Hill (1938)
- (1939)
- The Rothschilds (1940)
- Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
- The Roedern Affair (1944)
- Thank You, I'm Fine (1948)
- Three Days of Fear (1952)
- Have Sunshine in Your Heart (1953)
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- 1887 births
- 1970 deaths
- People from Grimma
- People from the Kingdom of Saxony
- Film people from Saxony
- Nazi propagandists
- Propaganda film directors