Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
Heinrich Bolten - Baeckers ( Heinz Bolten - Baeckers; born April 10, 1871 in Chemnitz, † January 30, 1938 in Dresden ) was a German playwright, lyric poet, publisher, film director, producer and screenwriter. His songs are known today. He was also one of the main creators of film comedies in the early German cinema.
Life
Heinrich Bolten - Baeckers was librettist Berlin operetta by Paul Lincke as Mrs. Luna and In the Realm of Indra. He wrote, among other texts of the operetta song This is the Berlin air, air, air and hit Give me but a little bit of love, O Theophilus and castles that are in the moon ...
1906 turned Bolten Baeckers one of the three formed as a trailing actuality films strip around the Captain of Köpenick.
In 1909 he founded the film production company BB- film fabrication Bolten Baeckers (Berlin), which produced countless shallow entertainment films until 1923. 1912/13, was among other things, the later known director Carl Wilhelm in Bolten Baeckers active. It was until the mid- 1910s a number of comedies with actor Leo Leo Peukert. Bolten Baeckers was the happiness of love of the Blind (1911 ) for the Messter Film Society director of public success. The melodrama with Henny Porten and Friedrich Zelnik in the lead roles, the Porten made known to a wide audience.
From 1912 to 1921, Bolten Baeckers director of the Berlin Lustspielhaus in Friedrichstrasse. Until the mid- 1920s, Bolten was Baeckers continued to work as a director and producer in the film business. In 1927 he founded the Lignose Hörfilm system Breusig GmbH, which should exploit the Needle sound of Kurt Breusig. After a collaboration with the Ufa had failed, the first Lignose - Hörfilm was listed in 1928 in Dresden.
GEMA Foundation grants since 1988, the 10,000 euro Heinz Bolten - Baeckers Award to the librettist for outstanding achievements in the field of popular music theater.