Carl Hoffmann
Carl Hoffmann ( born June 9, 1885 in Neisse, † July 13, 1947 in Minden in Westphalia ) was a German cinematographer and director. Hoffmann is considered alongside Karl Fritz Arno Wagner and friend as one of the most important cinematographers of the Weimar Republic.
Life
Even at thirteen, he occupied himself with photography. He trained in Freiburg, where he worked first in a photo lab and as a projectionist. Later he moved to Berlin. In 1916 he became chief surgeon of the Decla Film Company.
Carl Hoffmann began as a cameraman with short films by literary motifs such as The Pledge (1912 /13), The singer's Curse or The walk to the iron hammer; it was followed by movies like Macbeth and Fiesko (both from 1913). 1916 Otto Hoffmann turned Ripperts six-part series Homunculus. In addition to numerous entertainment films and documentaries created as in the wild crags of the high mountain (1918). Besides works with rather abstruse titles like From the secrets of a convent (1919) or O he were but a soup Chicken (1920 ), he worked on other literary adaptations, about 1920/21 at The conspiracy to Genoa with Fritz Kortner and 1920 at La Ronde with Asta Nielsen and Conrad Veidt. Even at the first Dr. Mabuse film, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Hoffmann was in the twenties behind the camera. Directed by Fritz Lang here, as at the Nibelungen films, made a little later.
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Hoffmann turned 1925/26, fist - a German folk tale with Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings and Yvette Guilbert. This film comes from his technical skills trick witness.
In The mysterious mirror ( 1927), he led, together with Richard Teschner also directed.
After a few more years behind the lens Hoffmann led 1933/34, I am with you, a mix- movie semi- exotic background, re- directing, just 1934 people in the shade, man in the light and in a variety of entertainment films of the Nazi era. During this time he also led his 1910 -born son Kurt as a trainee in the movie business. His last film, Shiva and the Gallows Flower, he turned even 1945. Hoffmann's tomb is located on the North Minden Cemetery.