Erich Waschneck
Erich John Waschneck ( born April 29, 1887 in Grimsby, † September 22, 1970 in Berlin) was a German cameraman, director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
The son of the master blacksmith Karl Hermann Waschneck and his wife Therese Emilie, nee Schneider went to high school at the Leipzig Academy of Art and studied painting. In 1907 he came into contact with the film industry when he began to paint posters for the medium. He then worked as a still photographer and later as a camera assistant cameraman Fritz Arno Wagner at.
1921 was followed by his first work as a cameraman in the adaptation of the fairy tale The Little Muck by Wilhelm Hauff. From 1924 he also worked as a director. His film Eight Girls in Boot ( 1932) was awarded the gold medal at the Film Festival in Venice. In 1932 he became managing director of the beacon -Film GmbH in Berlin and film producer. After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis Waschneck entered on April 4, 1933, the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization German-born film director. In 1940 he turned his anti-Semitic propaganda film The Rothschilds.
After the war Waschneck could lead director in only two films.
He was married from 1933 to actress Karin Hardt. Waschneck was buried in the Old Cemetery Wannsee.