Günther Krampf
Günther Oskar spasm ( born February 8, 1899 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † August 4, 1950 in London) was an Austrian cinematographer.
Life
Spasm studied at the Technical University in Vienna. After the First World War, he became acquainted with the camera work in various production companies in Vienna, Berlin and Florence know. He has worked with Fritz Arno Wagner to Murnau's Nosferatu (1922 ). His case developed penchant for Romantic - Fantastic was also evident in the work of Ludwig Berger's A Glass of Water (1923, together with Erich Waschneck ), Robert Wiene Orlac 's hands (1924 ) and Henrik Galeens The Student of Prague (1926) and Richard Oswald Alraune ( 1930). In addition, Günther spasm also worked for the scientific educational film (eg The normal human birth ).
From 1931 began spasm to continually work in England. In Germany created under his camera after that only the proletarian film Kuhle Wampe or: Who owns the world? (1932) and The girl Johanna (1935 ) by Gustav Ucicky.
Günther spasm made the seamless transition to the British production structures. He was able to continue his work in Germany, as in London already stayed many German filmmakers. In 1944, he was among other things for two propaganda films of Alfred Hitchcock, Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache, behind the camera.