Emil Schünemann
Emil Schünemann ( born April 18, 1882 in Berlin, † May 26 1964 in the village of rank ) was a German cinematographer.
Life
He went through a photographic training and already started up in 1903 at the German Mutoscop as a cameraman to film. Among other things, he turned the early 1912 film version of the Titanic disaster in night and ice. In World War I he served as a front camera man.
After the war he worked with directors such as Otto Rippert and Fritz Lang. In 1924, he photographed in Moscow the Soviet film Aelita, 1926/27, he was in East Asia for Georg Jacoby's two-parter The woman without a name and 1928 in India for the drama fate dice behind the camera.
In the 1930s, Schünemann lost rapidly in importance after 1936, he was rarely used. From 1945 to 1948 he ran his own photographic studio in Berlin in 1950, he returned to film. His last films as a cameraman he made for DEFA.